Senior Information Analyst
Job summary
The Senior Information Analyst will be required to lead on one of clinical divisions or functional areas within the Trust particularly around the Trust's Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), Community as well as Acute care reporting. The post holder will take responsibility for specific areas of reporting as assigned related to the monitoring of activity, performance, data quality and internal as well as external data submissions. The senior analyst will therefore develop expertise within these specific areas but will also be expected to understand all areas of reporting within the Information Team to provide cover when needed. The post holder will be expected to develop various reports and help end-users of the reports to analyse and interpret the information.
Main duties of the job
Below is a list of the main duties but for a full list of responsibilities please see the attached Job Description.
- Analyse Trust data sources to provide internal routine reports based on standard procedures including the development and maintenance of Trust/Divisional dashboards and other reports. This may involve manipulating and analysing data from multiple sources.
- Have the primary responsibility to meet CDC, Community and Acute care reporting requirements whilst opportunities will be made to develop other areas of reporting the team is responsible for.
- Develop and document new procedures to adapt to changing Trust requirements and technology infrastructure.
About us
The Information Team is responsible for a wide range of information analysis relating to patient information, business and performance management indicators and clinical as well as information governance issues. We are integral to the Trust's performance management and our specialist knowledge plays an important part in operational decision-making.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Below is a list of the additional responsibilities but for a full list of responsibilities please see the attached Job Description.
- Develop and provide specialist and expert knowledge for divisional or functional area.
- Participate in Board meetings, projects and relevant working groups by presenting and interpreting activity and performance information.
- Represent the interests of the division in information related IM&T developments.
- Promote the understanding of presentation and analysis techniques such as Statistical Process Control.
- Develop reports using the Trusts Business Intelligence tools that include Power BI, Business Objects as well as Microsofts SQL BI tools.
- End-user support for software including Excel, Access, Business Objects (reports), Power BI, and other tools as required.
- Identify areas where information provision is inadequate and suggest/develop strategies and solutions to provide effective management information.
- Develop information systems where necessary to agreed user specifications; providing ongoing training, advice and support to end-users.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Degree or postgraduate qualification in a numeric subject
Skills & Abilities
- Well -developed interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate, influence and motivate effectively.
- Ability to work flexibly, under pressure, organise and manage own workload to meet deadlines
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team with appropriate decision -making skills
- Demonstrate investigative and analytical skills with a track record
- Ability to maintain a high standard of accuracy.
- Power BI development skills
- Ability to present information to a non-technical audience
- Translation of clinical agenda and terms into management information
- Business Objects
Knowledge & Experience
- Significant experience in management information in the NHS or relevant experience in a similar role in a large organisation.
- Knowledge of NHS Information systems, data models and the current NHS performance management structure
- Database and spreadsheet applications e.g. MS SQL and Excel
- Support for performance management and service improvement
- Knowledge of basic statistical methods and analysis of relational dataset
- Working with end users of information systems and presenting data as clear and concise information
- Proven experience in Power BI development and data visualisation.
- Experience and knowledge of diagnostics, general acute and community data sets.
- Experience of developing and maintaining databases
- Support for strategic and business planning
- Experience in team leader role
Personal Qualities
- Strong and effective leadership
- An effective team player
- An enthusiastic and positive outlook
- Adaptable
- Ability to demonstrate initiative
- Aptitude towards learning and development
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Whittington Hospital - Highgate Wing
Information Team, Level 6, Highgate Wing, Whittington Hospital
London
N19 5NF
https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/
- Company
- Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
- Location
- London, United Kingdom N19 5NF
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £49036.00 - £55049.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
- Location
- London, United Kingdom N19 5NF
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £49036.00 - £55049.00 a year
- Posted