Senior Strategy Analyst
Job summary
"This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust & Portsmouth Hospital University NHS Trust only"
NHS Band 8a Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Hours Per Week: Full time 37.5 hrs
Contract Type: Permanent
To serve as the organisation's lead expert in forecasting, capacity planning, translating complex operational data into actionable insights that support strategic and operational decision-making. The post holder will work collaboratively with senior stakeholders across Operations, Finance, and other business functions to ensure resources, capacity, demand, and budgets are effectively aligned, while driving continuous improvement through analytics, reporting, and performance insight.
While the post is hosted within the Analytics Team, the post holder will work closely with the Strategy, Research and Transformation Team, proactively providing them with the analytical insights they need to develop strategies and projects.
Main duties of the job
Specific Core Functions
- Supporting performance and planning activities across the group
- Tracking, analysing, interpreting, forecasting and reporting on performance.
- Anticipating future analysis & information needs.
- Providing information to help improve the efficiency of service & changing practices.
- Providing insights to inform the setting of performance targets & trajectories, using intelligence regarding the division, area, specialty or group.
- Providing user friendly reports, dashboard, intelligence and data, accessible to staff in the divisions, areas, specialties being supported.
- Contributing to improvement; supporting performance reviews, audits and inspections, providing analysis, information and narratives.
About us
Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.
The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationships
- The post holder will be providing and receiving routine information orally, in writing or electronically to inform work colleagues, patients, clients, carers, the public or other external contacts.
Analytical and Judgement
- Judgements involving a range of facts or situations, which require analysis or comparison of a range of options.
Planning and organising
- Planning and organisation of a broad range of complex activities or programmes, some of which are ongoing, which require the formulation and adjustment of plans or strategies.
Physical Skills
- The post requires developed physical skills to fulfil duties where there is a specific requirement for speed or accuracy. This level of skill may be required for advanced or high-speed driving; advanced keyboard use; advanced sensory skills or manipulation of objects or people with narrow margins for error, or the post requires highly developed physical skills, where accuracy is important, but there is no specific requirement for speed. This level of skill may be required for manipulation of fine tools or materials.
Patient Client Care
- Assists patients/clients/relatives during incidental contacts.
Policy and Service Development
- The post holder is responsible for policy implementation and for discrete policy or service development for a service or more than one area of activity.
Financial Management
- The post holder will observe a personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources used in the course of their work.
- The post holder will be responsible for the safe use of equipment other than equipment which they personally use.
- The post holder will monitor and/or contributes to the drawing up of department/service budgets or financial initiatives.
Management/Leadership
- The post holder is responsible for day-to-day management of staff within Analytics. The post holder will deal with the initial stages of grievance and discipline; appraisal, acting as an interview panel member; responsible for monitoring mandatory training compliance with their team. The post holder will be responsible for reviewing work performance and progress and manage the allocation of work.
For full job details and personal specification, please refer to enclosed job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working in specialist area.
- Professional Registration.
Experience
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
- Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes / practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).
- Experience working on tactical & operational matters and managing analytical services (preferably in the public sector).
- Experience working on tactical & operational matters and managing analytical services (preferably in the public sector).
- Experience of working with complex performance and information management scenarios while also developing and presenting insights and guidance of a very high quality.
- Experience of leading a code-first analytical function, with experience using and developing open-source code, and coding-in-the-open.
- Expert in open-source programming languages, such as Python/ R.
Skills and Knowledge
- A good understand of data quality and the impact that poor data quality can have on patients and the group.
- A good understanding of Information Governance, Data Sharing and Data Protection Principles.
- A working knowledge of GDPR and how it applies to our work.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Address
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Corporate Hub
Block 4000, Lakeside North Harbour, Western Road, Cosham
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO6 3EN
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.iow.nhs.uk/