Data Process Engineer: Sponsorship Available

Job Summary

The post holder will be joining our Performance & Informatics (P&I) department who are well respected and the largest of our corporate services. The P&I portfolio encompasses Business Intelligence & Informatics, Corporate Performance, Information Systems Development, Clinical Coding, Data Quality, Patient Access, Cancer Services and Analytical Development.

P&I work cross functionally to support the Trusts operational delivery of both national and internal targets which ensures the highest standards of patient care are delivered. A robust Performance Management Framework is embedded across UHCW that tracks and evaluates progress and supports both operational and clinical governance frameworks.

New opportunities at a national level are being developed by P&I in areas of health inequality, waiting list management and system working. Most notably working innovatively to develop the ‘Health Equity and the Right to Treatment’ (HEARTT) tool which culminated in being awarded the ‘Innovation and Improvement in Reducing Healthcare Inequalities Award’ at the prestigious Health Service Journal Awards in 2022. P&I have strategic partnerships with IBM and Celonis and have introduced data mining into the organisation.

Main duties of the job

1. Manage, facilitate and complete tasks and projects to comply with project milestones and organisational deadlines. Working to a defined schedule the reports will be accurate and completed in a timely manner.
2. To represent the organisation when working with external partners, and to champion data mining within the organisation.
3. Support the Trust’s reporting routines in an accurate and timely manner, summarising complex data and information to the wider members of P&I.
4. Highlight discrepancies in data quality, completeness and/or interpretation of management information as appropriate.
5. Be proactive in the initiation of information analyses, providing analysis and advise on information for current/future programmes of work and service delivery.
6. Provide advice and specialist knowledge to define Trust wide and external information requirements and establishing appropriate reporting mechanisms.
7. Utilise experience, knowledge, judgement, and skills to develop and improve information reporting systems in line with National data requirements and definitions. This will be achieved using a variety of reporting tools and a combination of advanced procedures in MS Excel, Access, SQL Server, and Power BI.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be joining P&Is Analytical Development team and will be primarily responsible for the management, facilitation and completion of works and projects alongside external partners and internal stakeholders. The post holder will also support the delivery various projects to find opportunities through data interrogation and data mining to help with the organisations transformation strategy. The individual will have experience and expertise at providing high level information analysis and establishing reporting routines and requirements to improve operational delivery and contribute to the development of the Trusts analytics provision.

The post holder will work for the Lead Analytical Developer.

• Utilise appropriate skills and software to advise on and enable simulation, predictive analysis, and scenario testing to inform decision making by performance and operational leads.
• Liaise with members of the Department and the wider Organisation as appropriate to ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and milestones are developed to measure and monitor the progress of delivery.
• Propose improvements to streamline existing process and systems to promote greater efficiency and effectiveness whilst ensuring processes are robust, efficient, and well documented.
• Utilise appropriate benchmarking tools for example Telstra Health and Model Hospital to identify and model areas of potential service improvement from analysis of peers.
• Participate in local and national audits by ensuring data is sourced and available as required.
• Take an active role in improving data quality. Be proactive in the solution of any inconsistencies and incompleteness of data that may occur, identifying the causes and design and implement any changes required, giving a solution to the problem.
• Work with the Information System Development team to ensure that data sources are current and fit for the needs of Performance and Informatics department in terms of timeliness and accuracy and ensuring business continuity of reporting during system upgrades.
• Ensures that Information Governance and Data Protection are adhered to in relation to the provision of information.
• Participate in Performance and Informatics and Trust meetings where required.
• Provide cover across other P&I teams as/when required.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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: 28 March 2025