Job summary
- Main area
- Data & Analytics
- Grade
- NHS AFC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-NW-6455368-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any North West Base (Manchester, Liverpool, Preston)
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Regional Data Strategy Implementation Lead
NHS AFC: Band 8c
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
The Directorate of the Chief Data & Analytics Officer includes an analytical service supporting NHS England and NHS Improvement by providing information, analysis and analytical support. We have an aim of 'do once and automate' wherever possible and therefore produce national products for use by the centre and locally. This approach reduces the analytical overhead enabling us to support local analysis where required and ensures consistency of reporting from Cumbria to Cornwall.
Example projects include:
- Supporting NHS planning by collecting and assuring plans to ensure that the Health system can commission the care their patients need within the resources they have available
- Monitoring and assurance of delivery against plan within the NHS, taking into account seasonal planning and resilience. This allows us to understand the true performance of the NHS and identify areas of good or poor performance
- Developing new indicators to monitor performance, this can involve working with policy leads, commissioners, providers, and other organisations to identify, create and test indicators
- Assurance of the Health system via the development of indicators across performance, outcomes and patient experience
- Modelling and in-depth analysis to support the delivery of the long-term plan and to tailor analysis to the relevant regional or national audience.
Main duties of the job
The individual be responsible for the implementation of the national health and social care data strategy across the North West region, with the following key responsibilities:
- Ensure a clear roadmap that bridges-the-gap between the national health and social care data strategy and ‘on the ground’ action;
- Work collaboratively across the region to drive up quality and timeliness of data submissions, whilst looking to reduce the burden on front-line staff;
- Ensure cohesion across digital, data and analysis so that technology serves the user and the problems that we are trying to address.
The NW Analysis team adopts a flexible approach to work activity, meaning that the specific tasks assigned to the post-holder may change in response to business needs.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Functional Responsibilities
Operational
Ensure that best practice is developed and delivered at organisational and departmental levels. Challenge ways of working and persuade, motivate and influence other senior managers to realign their practice where necessary.
- Ensure that appropriate implementation plans are employed in line with business objectives and that these are fully cascaded.
- Personally lead, support and contribute to formal negotiations with senior level internal and external stakeholders, providing a high level of negotiating expertise to secure the most advantageous arrangements.
- Advise on innovative opportunities and support all departments in their strategies and programmes to maximise service benefits.
- Oversee the tracking of progress against plans and transition milestones, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to flag issues, risks and concerns with the relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure the securing of value for money, assuring relevant factors such as quality and governance.
Programme Management
- Allocate tasks as appropriate, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project.
- Pro-actively manage stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms.
- Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner.
- Maintain the project initiation document and associated plans with regular team meetings to monitor progress and resources.
- Demonstrate effective stakeholder management.
- Support other project managers as and when required.
- Take into account the impact of any change the projects will have on the business and oversee handover of any products to ensure full ownership and buy-in within the business Advocate the projects at senior and executive levels and ensure active engagement and sponsorship within NHS as a whole.
- Ensure that the projects maintain business focus, have clear authority and that the context, including risks, is actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of NHS
Planning and Organisation
- Contribute to the strategic planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on the wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
- Contribute to short, medium- and long-term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.
Communication
- Preparing written publicity communications for a range of internal and external communications channels, including the NW Analysis NHS Futures page.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Master’s degree or Doctorate or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development
Desirable criteria
- • Professional qualification in APMG Change Management, APMP, Prince2 or other recognised project management methodology
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and in-depth experience of understanding how data and analysis can be used to answer questions in health and/or social care
- Understanding of data analytics methods, including machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, their application and the value analysis can add to the health system.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly complex ideas to a range of audiences where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere;
- Ability to effectively plan and manage complex projects and deliver work of a high standard with conflicting and demanding deadlines;
Desirable criteria
- Experience of a senior management role in a complex environment
- Experience of co-ordinating and managing multiple, complex projects
- 2Experience of preparing reports on operational issues for senior management at Director or Board level;
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse and synthesise complex information and present it clearly and precisely, both verbally and in written formats;
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Adrian Jonas
- Job title
- Analytics Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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