Job Summary
We are currently recruiting for a new Contract Monitoring Developer within our Contract Monitoring team. The post holder will work with the Development Manager to manage the Contract Monitoring System to enable internal and external reporting at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospitals.
We are seeking an experienced Contract Monitoring Developer with excellent technical and interpersonal skills. The successful candidate will have demonstrated excellent knowledge of NHS Data and database management tools. They will also have strong analytical skills working with large and complex data sets.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder is responsible for providing technical support to the Contract Monitoring team in assuring and reporting the Trust’s contractual position to external and internal audiences, with a monthly value of approx. £200m.
The Trust has implemented a new Contract Monitoring System (CMS), which the post-holder will maintain. Using sound technical skills, the post-holder will work with the Contract Monitoring team, and stakeholders, to standardise data and transform it into information useful to all end users.
The post-holder is responsible for delivering the technical development of the CMS by:
Ensuring the current rules for assigning activity groupings and tariffs are accurate as well as the rules for determining the appropriate commissioner
The post-holder will provide advice and guidance to colleagues on:
HRGs, tariff structures, PSS allocation rules
NHS Clinical Information
to enhance the understanding of Trust activity by both internal and external audiences.
The post-holder will support delivery of the Trust’s contracting strategy by:
aligning Contract Monitoring with the Trust’s income plan;
developing and maintaining master look-up files that determine how contracting information is presented and categorised.
As part of the Contract Monitoring management team, the post-holder will be expected to contribute to the broader information management agenda of the Trust.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Graduate with high level of numeracy
- Degree in informatics-related discipline, or equivalent experience within the area of information management
- Knowledge of current NHS issues relating to acute hospital contracting information management including national tariffs, HRGs, SUS, contract monitoring
Previous Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of NHS data including its structure, definitions and relationship to clinical activity recording
- Experience of working with contract monitoring and experience of working with contract monitoring software suppliers
- Broad experience of using information derived from large and complex data sets
- Considerable post-graduation experience required in a post with a significant analytical component
- Experience in collection, management, reporting and presentation of financial and activity data
- Experience of managing staff, including staff development
Skills/ Knowledge / Ability
Essential
- Mature and confident manner capable of negotiating and influencing clinical and managerial staff
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work as part of a team and operate effectively in a multidisciplinary environment
- Demonstrable ability to interpret meaning of numeric reports and explain complex concepts to a lay audience
- Excellent organisational skills with a demonstrable ability to balance competing demands and priorities
- Good information presentation skills, evident in use of graphics and design of reports
- Advanced Excel skills including macros
- Self-motivated with genuine interest in subject-matter
- Specific experience of Power BI and Qlikview
- Demonstrable aptitude for SQL and techniques of database design, management and interrogation. Including the use of Sequel Server Integration Service (SSIS) from Server Data Tools (SDT)
Desirable
- Advanced knowledge of a range of report development software and techniques
- A high standard of written skills, evident in report writing
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: 31 March 2025
