Job summary
- Main area
- Planning & Performance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 297-6344567
- Employer
- Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Town
- Gateshead
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Information Analyst
NHS AfC: Band 6
In the event of excessive applications being received this vacancy may close earlier than the stated closing date, you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible
IMPORTANT NOTE ON COMPLETION OF REFERENCE SECTION OF APPLICATION FORM
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and MUST cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Where possible this should be from two separate employers. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
PLEASE NOTE it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their DBS certificate if a check is required for the post. This will be done through deduction from your monthly pay over a maximum of three months. It is also a requirement that all successful applicants register or are registered with the DBS update service where a DBS is required.
All new entrants to the NHS will be appointed on the minimum of the pay scale in line with Terms & Conditions.
Job overview
The production and use of information is key to the Trust in its delivery of high quality healthcare. The post holder will support and develop the organisation’s data capture and reporting within a number of our Departmental work streams: planned care, unplanned and emergency care, cancer, specialist services, and community.
The post holder will major in at least two of the above mentioned work streams, whilst working in a supportive role in at least one other. This will include providing complex analysis, designing and implementing reporting solutions utilising software such as Excel, Power BI and Microsoft Reporting Services.
The post holder will be required to work integrally with the appropriate services within the Trust and managers across the organisation to ensure the delivery of all elements of a digitally driven information service. The post holder will provide aspects of business intelligence support to their allotted work streams. They will be required to produce complex reports and innovative analysis to services and colleagues throughout the Trust.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will assist the Senior Business Partner/Development Lead and Business Partners in all aspects of the data journey, including: data flow definition, rota management, rules guidance, metrics reporting, ad hoc requests, BI analysis, dashboard development, and development of subject expertise.
The post holder will be responsible for the communication of complex information from national directives and information requirements to ensure the strategic direction of the Trust is in in line with this. They will provide escalation to the operational teams for support and delivery.
The post holder will ensure that the Corporate PPAI team produce timely and accurate information and analysis to support the Trust’s business requirements, supporting patient care, quality, performance, financial flows and service development.
Working for our organisation
Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Required to build effective working relationships that span operational and corporate teams and that cross organisational boundaries, and maintain these relationships at times of significant change and tension, for example with: o Directors, Associate Directors and senior managers
Service clinical leads and clinicians
Planning and performance colleagues; Colleagues throughout the organisation at all levels including other business partners for the designated Business Unit /
Corporate Directorate o Other NHS organisations, e.g., ICB, NHS Improvement, NHS England, QEF, other NHS Foundation Trusts
Organisations outside of the NHS, e.g., HED, NEQOS, local authorities.
Have the personal presence, integrity, authority and business understanding to speak as an equal, be listened to and to challenge assumptions at a senior level within the designated Business Unit and/or Corporate Directorate.
Regularly communicate sensitive and contentious information effectively in writing and verbally, with individuals and groups (i.e., root cause analysis relating to patient care; commercially sensitive or ‘political’ information; management of service change; service level agreements).
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline, or significant relevant experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working on the information services agenda including knowledge of national requirements.
- Excellent analytical and requirements gathering skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Debbie Renwick
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Planning & Performance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 445 5449
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