Job Summary
NUH is looking to hire an Advanced Analyst (Band 7) to join our Family Health analytical team. This role primarily involves providing analytical expertise and support to the Family Health Division with a focus on Maternity.
The Family Health Analytical team is looking for someone with strong SQL skills, and also has significant experience of working with R and collaborating across team to ensure reproduceable outputs.
The Advanced Analyst will be responsible for delivering analytical expertise, presenting high-quality data, and providing tailored system support.
Interviews for this post will be taking place onsite
Main duties of the job
Provide high-level expertise in the analysis and presentation of complex healthcare data to deliver actionable insights for a wide range of audiences.
Lead projects by:
Collaborating with users to understand requirements, identifying data sources, and selecting appropriate analytical techniques.
Generating specifications and planning analytical projects.
Designing metrics and establishing measurement requirements to demonstrate success.
Designing and delivering analysis for evaluation, identifying appropriate data sources and methods.
Developing tools to support data capture, extraction, linkage, analysis, and presentation.
Offer expert advice to senior managers on system management/data/analytical issues, including techniques and accurate interpretation.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent learning/experience
Desirable
- Masters or above in relevant fields e.g. informatics, analysis, statistics or operational research
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience working within an Information or analysis role
- Detailed analysis & validation of various types of data to inform assessment of performance of complex organisations and to help identify opportunities for improvement.
- Highly developed specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and experience in using statistical & analytical techniques and information analysis, acquired though degree level or equivalent plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate diploma level / or equivalent relevant experience
- Very high level of computer literacy & technical competence – including understanding of a range of additional data analysis querying tools (e.g. MS SQL etc)
- Experience in developing tools using Business Intelligence software (e.g. Qlikview, SSRS)
- Experience in developing tools using Business Intelligence software (e.g. Qlikview, SSRS)
Desirable
- Experience of developing and maintaining code using R
- Experience of using Git to collaboratively develop and maintain code.
- Detailed knowledge & understanding of Health Informatics – including healthcare datasets (particularly secondary care), data quality, national strategic control mechanisms for data management, definitional guidance & data protection
- Experience in a service improvement setting using a range of service improvement and quality management tools.
- Experience in an acute hospital setting
Communication and relationship skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate complex (potentially contentious or sensitive) analytical issues to data literate persons or groups at various levels
- Ability to communicate complex (potentially contentious or sensitive) analytical issues to data literate persons or groups at various levels
- Ability to deal effectively with a range of queries from Directors, Managers, project leads and clinical staff.
- Ability to train others in range of data, measurement and analytical topics.
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential
- Innovative thinker with the ability to identify and consider alternative ways of enabling data to be collected and presented where conventional options are not available.
- Ability to source data from a variety of sources.
- Able to act as an expert in field of data capture, manipulation and dissemination.
- Ability to manipulate data from a variety of sources and present in the most appropriate format (maps, charts, tables etc).
- Ability to analyse, interpret and present highly complex information from large data sets
- Very high level of computer literacy & technical competence – including an understanding of MS Excel & SQL
- High level of numeracy with good problem solving and attention to detail
Planning and organisation skills
Essential
- Excellent organisational and planning skills
- Set own priorities and develop work programmes for department
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 09 February 2025
