Senior Data Analyst

Are you passionate about driving forward changes in the NHS by obtaining hard numeric facts about the impact of innovations in healthcare? The Health Innovation Network is looking for a highly numerate, experienced and dynamic data analyst to work within the HIN's small informatics team. The team supports a range of projects underway to trial innovations in health and social care and obtain and use data to evidence if innovations have led to the desired changes/ impacts they set out to make.
Hosted by Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, we enjoy the benefits of being NHS members of staff while focusing on innovation to improve the lives of patients and staff in the health and care sector. While this was important before, it has an even greater focus now with innovation being looked to help reduce elective care backlogs and health inequalities. The main purpose of this post is to provide high quality analysis and reporting to support the delivery of the Health Innovation Network's priority projects. Innovation is at the heart of everything we do, from delivering transformational programmes to improving patient pathways, or internally with our wide range of health and mental health wellbeing initiatives. Working at the HIN you could benefit from great health and wellbeing support which currently includes yoga, book club, lunchtime walks, and regular social events alongside our HIN Academy providing fantastic training., Working closely with clinical themes and HIN members, the post-holder will provide support with data collection, data management and analysis to support a range of evaluations within the HIN and for wider membership and commissioners/ clients. As part of the Informatics Team, the post holder will be responsible for:
+ Checking and reporting on Data Quality issues for data provided by technology companies or NHS partners or publicly available data sets.
+ Implementing automated or manual checks on data to ascertain quality and provide timely and meaningful inputs so that the quality issues can be corrected.
+ Extracting relevant data and providing analysis and meaningful insights from data through the production of reports etc.
Supporting additional initiatives including training staff on how to use data analysis tools and how to interpret data.
+ Supporting the development, implementation and updating of data modelling tools and approaches.
+ Creating reports, making presentations and undertaking projects aimed at improving information provision and analysis for the Health Innovation Network and their members., + Ensures that data collected from innovation sites is aggregated and To provide demonstrable assurance that the Health Innovation Network work stream data quality meets necessary standards and communicate issues and good practice with clinical teams and managers. To provide assurance that the necessary data are collected, analysed, presented and interpreted with regard to performance management within the Health Innovation Network clinical work streams, along with complying with all necessary statutory requirements.
+ Ensuring the timely collection, analysis and reporting of quantitative data in relation to evaluations to HIN stakeholders and commissioners/ clients. To provide assurance that any sensitive data is extracted and processed in accordance to the Data Protection Act, General Data Protection Regulation and Caldicott principles.
+ Participate or lead special information projects ensuring they are aligned to the key objectives of the project/ evaluation, providing options and recommendations to support these objectives.
+ To work with clinicians and Health Innovation Network Project Managers to undertake analysis of business/care delivery processes, advising on how these might be changed or refined to improve their efficiency, and how such changes would be enabled by the appropriate use of information systems and communications technology. To review the information requirements of clinicians, establishing any shortfalls and making recommendations on priorities in the light of business or service priorities.
Management
+ To support the training and development of Health Innovation Network Information and Evaluation Service staff in the appropriate use of information collection, management and visualisation techniques (including statistical analysis) to support service improvement.
+ To act as a resource to Health Innovation Network staff on health and social care information, providing information searches, data analyses and training.
+ To assist in the design and implementation of audit and evaluation projects.
+ To provide cover as required to the Lead Analyst
Development
+ To be responsible for new systems testing when any amendments are made to national datasets that are then reflected in local databases. (i.e. field changes, facilitate changes with external provider and then test in context before going live).
+ To identify new data collection, validation and presentation requirements.
+ To develop and maintain databases as required for data collection and analysis.
+ To maintain and develop data visualisation, impact tools and dashboards
+ To research and develop appropriate evaluation methods, including data collection methods and the use of appropriate statistical methods to obtain and analyse data
Education
+ Responsible for developing and sustaining own knowledge, skills and professional awareness.
+ Be a source of support for evaluation team staff when dealing with issues around data.
+ Attend courses as deemed relevant, including mandatory training, and to attend meetings and conferences as appropriate
+ Train staff as appropriate in the responsible use of data and its collection
Other responsibilities
+ Becomes competent in fulfilling the network's regular reporting responsibilities, providing cover to other members of the team
+ Supports reporting requirements to external bodies as required, including the handling of queries arising from such reports
+ Supports clinical work streams, representing the department on working groups and project teams
Communication and Working Relationships
+ Health Innovation Networks clinical themes
+ Informatics teams in other AHSNs and BI teams at local ICBs
+ Key staff from NHSE, PHE, SWL ICB and SEL ICB
+ External members commissioning the HIN to provide analytical capability projects
Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study's at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual's personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS., The HIN is the Health Innovation Network for south London, one of 15 across England. We work across a range of health and care services through each of our clinical and innovation themes, to transform care in diabetes, patient safety, mental health, cardiovascular and healthy ageing and to accelerate innovations into the NHS. HINs help mobilize the value that the NHS can add as an economic asset to the UK economy. We work with a range of expert support and services across the health and care sectors that support NHS innovators and companies to realise the commercial and economic potential of their innovations.
As part of the HIN adaptable working principles, which allows our ability to adapt to anticipated changes in project portfolios and gives staff the opportunity to enhance their skills and expertise, the successful candidate may be asked to operate across other themes and projects.
Our Values
Brave - We encourage our teams and others to be brace with their ideas and support them to try new things.
Kind - We care about each other, the people we work with and about the health and wellbeing of south Londoners.
Open - We're open about what we do, and we share what we learn.
Different - We think differently, and we are strong because of our diverse background, talents, and experiences.
Together - We build communities and networks, we collaborate, and we connect.