Job summary
Employer heading
Analyst (Senior Information Analyst)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
Within Data and Analytics our vision is to be the leading data services provider for health and social care across England through creating innovative and high-quality data products and services that give our customers the knowledge and capabilities required to deliver the best outcomes for citizens.
Main duties of the job
The Strategic Analysis team supports NHS England to understand and solve many of the NHS’s most important strategic challenges, ultimately improving outcomes for patients.
Strategic Analysis is a cross-disciplinary team of technical specialists in economics, behavioural science and other analytical professions. The team operates as an in-house project-based consultancy, working across analytical and professional boundaries.
We collaborate with policy and programme teams to translate strategy and analysis into real-world impact. We use many different methods including econometric modelling, other advanced quantitative analysis, experimental methods, and qualitative research. Examples of our work include modelling the drivers of NHS productivity, the impact of health on employment, improving cancer screening, and economies of scale modelling.
The team’s projects use advanced technical or strategic skills often from economics or behavioural science. Strategic Analysis has a range of backgrounds and we seek to ensure an appropriate mix to deliver our work.
We are recruiting to two permanent band 7 roles. This role is for a general analyst (separate advert for economics specialist). For this role, we are seeking an individual with general strategic and advanced analytical skills. This will include a strong track record of applying a range of frameworks to understand, analyse and solve strategic problems.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This advert has attached Assignment Briefs/ information relating to roles currently vacant. However, please be aware that this recruitment may also be used to fill other positions that become vacant after the time of advert, for which Assignment Briefs or team information are not available. This will be limited to roles where the competencies to be assessed and requirements for the role are appropriately similar.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level in economics, statistics, operational research, social research, mathematics, or other relevant subject; or equivalent experience of working in a specialist analytical area.
Skills / Abilities
Essential criteria
- Strong written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering ideas and concepts concisely to a range of audiences within and beyond policy settings, such as the public, patients and hospital staff.
- Experience developing yourself and sharing specialist knowledge with others.
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to analyse very complex strategic issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working as an analyst (across professional groupings including economics, statistics, operational research, social research, etc.).
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Douglas
- Job title
- Data Development Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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