Data Analyst - Red Cell Immunohaematology (RCI)

Job summary

This is a great opportunity to work in NHS Blood Transplant as a Data Analyst with the Red Cell Immunohaematology (RCI) function, a national reference service supporting the safe and clinically effective use of red cells and other blood components. You will provide Data analysis expert advice to RCI Management and other stakeholders NHSBT. As part of the RCI management team, you will provide expert data analysis, interpretation, and reporting to inform operational and strategic decision-making across the service. Your analytical insight will support workforce planning, quality improvement, and service development, ensuring RCI remains a recognised centre of excellence in reference transfusion science.

Your organisational and leadership skills will ensure the transfusion service continues to deliver a cost effective and responsive service to patients and users of the service. NHSBT will offer training and development opportunities to maintain and enhance your personal development.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be a Data Analyst responsible for the analysis of business performance data. Responsibilities include:

• Gathering data from a variety of sources, producing analysis and recommendations.
• Managing a portfolio of scheduled and ad hoc reporting tasks, including weekly, monthly, and quarterly outputs.
• Reporting of trends to support strategic planning, service improvement and business growth.
• Supporting the Assistant Director of RCI, members of the Senior Management Team and the wider function to achieve challenging performance and growth targets with a focus on improving efficiency/productivity of the function.
• Supporting the delivery of the RCI strategic plan by ensuring that insight from data is aligned with business objectives, that performance is monitored across all sites, and that data is used to inform improvements, operational planning, and stakeholder engagement.
• Leading and contributing to data-driven workstreams, such as performance reporting, benchmarking, forecasting and dashboard development, ensuring that they are of the highest professional standards and compliant with all relevant internal and external standards, regulation and instructions.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.