Renal Network, East of England Business Intelligence Developer
Job summary
We are recruiting for a Renal Network, East of England Business Intelligence Developer who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The post holder is responsible for providing the required data and robust insight for monitoring prevalence of long-term conditions, health inequality and remote monitoring, and to support the development and implementation of virtual wards, as well as carrying out in-depth analysis required to support key business decisions on transformation, clinical improvement and redesign of services.
You must be technically competent in identifying and linking data at a patient level from multiple relevant sources and perform in-depth analysis of relationships, trends and root causes of trends using SQL Server data warehouse systems and reporting tools including Power BI and Tableau. Be able to use this analysis to draw key messages and actionable insight, which can be used by programme leads to support key decisions related to healthcare commissioning and care pathway redesign.
Substantial experience required using datasets from a wide range of performance, quality and clinical data sources that flow through specialised commissioning.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
Identifying trends, root causes and opportunities to tackle health inequalities, improve population health outcomes and address unwarranted variation of outcomes is a key part of this role.
To implement systems and processes to support the effective functioning of the programme.
Delivery of assigned tasks from the programme plan, engaging appropriate colleagues and stakeholders as necessary.
Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner.
To work with partners and utilise evidence-based practice to ensure plans are fit for purpose to achieve the most appropriate outcomes.
To use analytical techniques appropriately to improve decision-making in support of NHS England's core objectives.
To ensure that analytical resources are focused on areas where they can have maximum impact.
To develop excellent relationships with external providers of information and analysis and ensure alignment and fit.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
- Educated to degree level in Health Informatics, Business Information Systems, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Operational Research or a similar subject, or substantial experience of working within this area.
- Postgraduate qualification in public health and/or healthcare informatics, or equivalent postgraduate-level knowledge and experience.
- Educated to degree level in Health Informatics, Business Information Systems, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Operational Research or a similar subject, or substantial experience of working within this area.
- Member of a relevant professional body.
Knowledge and Experience
- Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments and knowledge and understanding of NHS datasets
- Understanding of the rationale for integrated care systems and experience of collaborating with senior business intelligence, commissioning, operational and clinical leads across providers, commissioning support units, systems and NHS England.
- General understanding of population health management principles, benefits, data and information-governance requirements, with experience of appropriately linking personlevel data across the health system.
- Knowledge of healthcare datasets, collection, submission routes, storage systems and processes used for commissioning, contract monitoring and planning.
- Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Experience of interpreting national health and social care policy and implementing policy locally.
- Understanding of the relationships between national health bodies, programmes of care, digital organisations, public health bodies and GIRFT, and how their support can be combined to deliver robust health service transformation.
- Sound understanding of current healthcare policy and its implications for engagement.
Technical, numerical and analytical skills
- Ability to analyse complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Sound judgement in the absence of clear data, guidance or precedent.
- Ability to develop, maintain and monitor reporting and information systems.
- Substantial hands-on experience of analytical techniques in an NHS context.
- Experience of statistical tools or programming languages for regression analysis and predictive analytics.
- Competence in relational database systems and Microsoft SQL Server queries, stored procedures, functions, databases, tables, views, facts, dimensions and reference tables.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel capability, including cleaning and analysing complex high-volume datasets, summary statistics, regression add-ins, tables, charts, graphs and pivots.
- Confident use of data visualisation and reporting tools such as Tableau and Power BI, including drill-down capability.
- High-level numeracy and analytical skills, drawing qualitative and quantitative data from multiple sources and presenting clear messages to non-technical audiences.
Communication
- Communicates effectively and confidently with business leads, third-party data providers and technical, clinical and operational colleagues
- Works to clear direction when required, uses initiative and manages competing deadlines.
- Builds relationships quickly across systems and providers to improve data quality, reporting, business intelligence and analytical tools.
- Experience of working within a formal project or programme environment.
Other Requirements
- Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Plans over short-, medium- and long-term timeframes and adjusts plans and resources accordingly.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Experience of Microsoft Teams, Trello or similar collaboration tools.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
- Experience of working within region strategic work programmes
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
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address
Lister Hospital
Coreys Mill Lane
Stevenage
SG14AB
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/