Senior Analyst (Principal Information Analyst)

The Medicines Value and Access data and analysis team is embedded within the Medicines Value and Access (MVA) sub-directorate of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) directorate. MVA has the responsibility to ensure the NHS as a whole delivers value for money for its expenditure on medicines (£17.2bn for FY 2021/22) and carries out a range of activities relating to branded medicines and generic, biosimilar and blood products in both primary and secondary care. The purpose of the Data Manager post is to support the effective operations of managed access approaches through the CDF and IMF across England, supporting a dynamic regional and national matrixed group. The role is designed to build on a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop strong service delivery. The MVA team within advanced analytics is a multi-disciplinary analytical team providing support to the following areas:

• Medicines Procurement and Efficiencies (MPE) including strategic category management.
• Medicines operations including the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) and Innovative Medicines Fund (IMF), the Early Access to Medicines Scheme (EAMS), the high-cost drugs prior approval system (currently Blueteq) and confidential pricing sharing platform (CAP Portal)
• Medicines Negotiation and Managed Access
• Medicines Policy and Strategy
• Hospital Pharmacy Modernisation, The post holder will be responsible to medicines operations colleagues (business function leads), and report to their line manager, within Data and Analysis embedded team.
Specific duties include:
• Leading and managing the transactional activity required to support managed access including the interface and relationships with suppliers (e.g., NHS England's prior approval system), the Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) dataset, the Minimum Data Set (MDS), the Commissioning Support Units (CSU) and the regional managed access activity relating to invoicing and price challenge;
• Leading the oversight of managed access price validation processes
• Developing and implementing systems to ensure information is effectively managed and best practice is shared across the function, MVA and the wider NHS organisations as appropriate
• Delivering audience specific reports, for example for clinical or finance colleagues as well as the keeping the public facing publications such as the weblist (on NHS England website) of available high-cost drugs up to date and accurate
• Ensuring interoperability between the data sources, NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you'll usually need to be paid the 'standard' salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the 'going rate' for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
  
  The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.