Job summary
An opportunity has arisen in the West Midlands Cancer Alliance to join this dynamic, high profile and busy team. As a Senior Analyst, you will work as part of a dynamic team that provides support and expertise to help the Integrated Care Systems (ICS's), West Midlands Cancer Alliance and NHS England direct commissioners deliver their plans. You will be responsible for leading and managing analytical projects that contribute to the delivery of the National Cancer Programme priorities within the 10 Year Health Plan for England. We are looking for individuals with a strong analytical background in the NHS and ideally with a demonstrable understanding of cancer pathways.
Main duties of the job
o taking a data-driven approach to support the transformation of cancer outcomes across local cancer systems.
o tracking the implementation of national transformation priorities and evaluate their impact to share evidence and spread best practice.
o having access to the very latest analysis to support delivery of transformation activities.
o having access to timely and consistent data held locally, regionally and nationally on operational performance and cancer activities, outputs and outcomes in their area to track progress and to identify areas for action
o offering advice and guidance to support to the wider Alliance to enable local evaluations; synthesise emerging evidence, publish and disseminate national findings.
o managing and deliver programmes related to data analytics aimed at supporting the transformative of service improvement
o working closely with the ICBs Cancer Programme teams, championing the use of analysis and insight to improve decision-making on key priorities across the West Midlands
o developing strong networks with key internal and external stakeholders and partners to ensure alignment and coordination of work to maximise impact
About us
There are approximately 2 million people in the UK living with or affected by cancer, and there are over 360,000 new diagnoses every year. Are you a Senior Operational Cancer Manager focussed on improving operational performance and quality on cancer pathways? Do you want to engage with teams working in Providers across the Midlands to improve outcomes and the lives of people with cancer? Working as part of the national NHS Cancer Programme, that's exactly what you'll do.
The West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) serves a population of 6.5 million, incorporates 15 Providers Trusts across a varied geography who work in partnership to achieve improve early and faster diagnosis and overall outcomes for those diagnosed and living with and beyond cancer, ensuring that we address inequalities, reduce variation and enhance patient access and experience.
This is a really exciting time to be joining an exceptional team with the ambition to be the best in the country. We are looking for applicants with passion, enthusiasm and drive to improve services for all of our population.
The West Midlands Cancer Alliance team is hosted at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust working across the wider West Midlands footprint. This role requires regular travel visiting provider organisations across the Midlands and attending team corporate days in central Birmingham.
Ability to travel across the West Midlands is a key requirement of this job.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Functional Responsibilities
Operational
To oversee team members to deliver requirements listed above and engage and liaise with key stakeholders, in particular;
To support the delivery of day-to-day activities, projects and programmes
To manage team and drive delivery of a range of business initiatives and projects
To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment
Support the portfolio of initiatives in demonstrating value for money for the current spend
To monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables to The West Midlands Cancer Alliance and NHS England that often require adjustments specifically in relation to the complex corporate business agenda, strategic objectives and the business planning process
To provide expert strategic and policy advice and guidance on all areas of the Managing Directors portfolio
Project Management
- Lead the team in the delivery of project plans, allocating tasks as appropriate, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project.
- Pro-actively manage stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms.
- Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner.
- Maintain the project initiation document and associated plans with regular team meetings to monitor progress and resources.
- Demonstrate effective stakeholder management.
- Support other project managers as and when required.
- Take into account the impact of any change the projects will have on the business and oversee handover of any products to ensure full ownership and buy-in within the business Advocate the projects at senior and executive levels and ensure active engagementand sponsorship within NHS as a whole.
- Ensure that the projects maintain business focus, have clear authority and that the context, including risks, is actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of NHS.
Financial and Physical Resources
- Identify products, equipment, services and facilities for assigned activities, achieving stakeholder buy-in as required.
- Responsible for making recommendations, providing advice and able to prepare strategic reports/briefings for the Head of Data Analytics, and relevant forums.
People Management
- Directly manages the team of staff, responsible for day-to-day work assigned to Team.
- Responsible for recruitment and selection.
- Responsible for undertaking appraisal and personal development and managing any employee relations issues.
- Forge close positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
- To support, motivate and develop people within the team.
- Managing third parties (such as consultants/interims) to ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner and within budget.
Information Management
- Drafting detailed reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Head of Data Analytics.
- Collate as required, a range of information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to project products.
- Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making.
Policy and Service Development
- Responsible for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements (SLAs) which may impact service.
- Proposes changes to own function making recommendations for other service delivery.
- The post holder will need to maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments for example The 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, change management, constitution.
- Contribute to the development of KPIs, including user satisfaction and the number of active users, to measure / monitor the success of the analytical products.
- Contribute to the development and continual improvement of analytical solutions, development frameworks and processes, supporting the design and development of NHS systems.
- Take a leading part in standardising analytical solutions in terms of user experience.
- Contribute to performance improvement, taking a lead for identifying areas where agreed.
- Actively contribute to design and development of team policies, processes, standards, guidelines and templates to improve the teams service capability and quality.
Research and Development
- Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information
- Co-ordinating Research & Development initiatives, delegating as appropriate.
- Take part in research on emerging / advanced analytics tools / techniques / technologies, such as spatial analytics, predictive analytics, mobile analytics, as well as new versions of existing software to recommend further value-adding initiatives.
- Seek best practices and bring innovative thinking through emerging external landscape and trends that can bring about step change or continuous improvement in data analytics.
- Collate as required, qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to support the development of robust business cases to build solutions.
Planning and Organisation
- Contribute to the strategic planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on the wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
- Contribute to short, medium- and long-term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.
Key Working Relationships
- Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with key stakeholders.
- Work effectively with a variety of external consultancies working on other projects and programmes within other NHS directorates and organisations as required.
- Communicates and provides highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. (verbal, written and numerical)
- Deal with resulting potentially aggressive/antagonistic situations as required.
- Work and engage constructively with stakeholders on a range of business sensitive issues.
- Nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally.
- Ensure close liaison with the Communications and Stakeholder team on public relations and marketing activities.
- Apply a structured change management approach and methodology in relation to change management.
May deputise for the Head of Data Analytics as required
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Functional Responsibilities
Operational
To oversee team members to deliver requirements listed above and engage and liaise with key stakeholders, in particular;
To support the delivery of day-to-day activities, projects and programmes
To manage team and drive delivery of a range of business initiatives and projects
To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment
Support the portfolio of initiatives in demonstrating value for money for the current spend
To monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables to The West Midlands Cancer Alliance and NHS England that often require adjustments specifically in relation to the complex corporate business agenda, strategic objectives and the business planning process
To provide expert strategic and policy advice and guidance on all areas of the Managing Directors portfolio
Project Management
- Lead the team in the delivery of project plans, allocating tasks as appropriate, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project.
- Pro-actively manage stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms.
- Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner.
- Maintain the project initiation document and associated plans with regular team meetings to monitor progress and resources.
- Demonstrate effective stakeholder management.
- Support other project managers as and when required.
- Take into account the impact of any change the projects will have on the business and oversee handover of any products to ensure full ownership and buy-in within the business Advocate the projects at senior and executive levels and ensure active engagementand sponsorship within NHS as a whole.
- Ensure that the projects maintain business focus, have clear authority and that the context, including risks, is actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of NHS.
Financial and Physical Resources
- Identify products, equipment, services and facilities for assigned activities, achieving stakeholder buy-in as required.
- Responsible for making recommendations, providing advice and able to prepare strategic reports/briefings for the Head of Data Analytics, and relevant forums.
People Management
- Directly manages the team of staff, responsible for day-to-day work assigned to Team.
- Responsible for recruitment and selection.
- Responsible for undertaking appraisal and personal development and managing any employee relations issues.
- Forge close positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
- To support, motivate and develop people within the team.
- Managing third parties (such as consultants/interims) to ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner and within budget.
Information Management
- Drafting detailed reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Head of Data Analytics.
- Collate as required, a range of information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to project products.
- Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making.
Policy and Service Development
- Responsible for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements (SLAs) which may impact service.
- Proposes changes to own function making recommendations for other service delivery.
- The post holder will need to maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments for example The 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, change management, constitution.
- Contribute to the development of KPIs, including user satisfaction and the number of active users, to measure / monitor the success of the analytical products.
- Contribute to the development and continual improvement of analytical solutions, development frameworks and processes, supporting the design and development of NHS systems.
- Take a leading part in standardising analytical solutions in terms of user experience.
- Contribute to performance improvement, taking a lead for identifying areas where agreed.
- Actively contribute to design and development of team policies, processes, standards, guidelines and templates to improve the teams service capability and quality.
Research and Development
- Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information
- Co-ordinating Research & Development initiatives, delegating as appropriate.
- Take part in research on emerging / advanced analytics tools / techniques / technologies, such as spatial analytics, predictive analytics, mobile analytics, as well as new versions of existing software to recommend further value-adding initiatives.
- Seek best practices and bring innovative thinking through emerging external landscape and trends that can bring about step change or continuous improvement in data analytics.
- Collate as required, qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to support the development of robust business cases to build solutions.
Planning and Organisation
- Contribute to the strategic planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on the wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
- Contribute to short, medium- and long-term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.
Key Working Relationships
- Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with key stakeholders.
- Work effectively with a variety of external consultancies working on other projects and programmes within other NHS directorates and organisations as required.
- Communicates and provides highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. (verbal, written and numerical)
- Deal with resulting potentially aggressive/antagonistic situations as required.
- Work and engage constructively with stakeholders on a range of business sensitive issues.
- Nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally.
- Ensure close liaison with the Communications and Stakeholder team on public relations and marketing activities.
- Apply a structured change management approach and methodology in relation to change management.
May deputise for the Head of Data Analytics as required
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree level in a relevant subject (such as Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Operational Research, or a related quantitative or analytical discipline such as Health Service Research, Social Research) or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience in specialist area.
- Educated to post-graduate level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Current or recent NHS experience in a cancer related area
- Able to mentor others in understanding of NHS cancer related datasets and data sources and in assessing quality and reliability
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- Evidence of post-graduate qualification and continuing professional development
Skills, Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Demonstrate skills and capabilities in one or more of the following: experience in using a range of statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, R, Python and SQL; /experience in use of mixed method approaches using qualitative and quantitative methods (i.e. evaluation, health service research or economics); /able to mentor others in application of appropriate descriptive statistics and standardisation; / able to build and document complicated and varied types of model including forecasting performance; / can use segmentation and or clustering to better understand population being modelled; / understands the principles of evaluation.
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree level in a relevant subject (such as Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Operational Research, or a related quantitative or analytical discipline such as Health Service Research, Social Research) or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience in specialist area.
- Educated to post-graduate level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Current or recent NHS experience in a cancer related area
- Able to mentor others in understanding of NHS cancer related datasets and data sources and in assessing quality and reliability
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- Evidence of post-graduate qualification and continuing professional development
Skills, Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Demonstrate skills and capabilities in one or more of the following: experience in using a range of statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, R, Python and SQL; /experience in use of mixed method approaches using qualitative and quantitative methods (i.e. evaluation, health service research or economics); /able to mentor others in application of appropriate descriptive statistics and standardisation; / able to build and document complicated and varied types of model including forecasting performance; / can use segmentation and or clustering to better understand population being modelled; / understands the principles of evaluation.
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
