Job summary
This role will form part of the newly formed Strategic Analytical Intelligence Unit (SAIU). The main aim of the SAIU is to place information and data at the heart of decision making within the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System (ICS).
The role as Senior Quality & Performance Analyst will play a key part in supporting Quality and Performance within the ICS, including quality monitoring, oversight and reporting in order to support assurance and improvement. This will involve managing and maintaining dashboards, including, but not limited to, the ICS Quality dashboard, Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) dashboard and performance reports. The post holder will have a specific focus on further development of these dashboards to support core business and transformational priorities through intelligence led investigative deep dives, detailed and in-depth analysis and validation of datasets and production of reports and analytical outputs to support quality improvement.
Main duties of the job
Main duties:
- Collate information of various types & formats, which could be from different sources.
- Analyse and interpreting complex quality and performance data to produce detailed, concise reports, suitable for formal presentation to clinicians and managers within the ICS.
- Load data into SQL databases to allow SQL querying and R based analysis
- Provide advice & support to staff on the use of information and statistics made available to them and to communicate highly complex statistical/analytical information to non-statistical/analytical staff in a user-friendly manner
- Extract and collate information of various types and formats, which could be from a variety different sources
- Identify, investigate and understand possible anomalies in the information analysed, which may include:
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- Assessing whether analysis and underpinning data is accurate and robust (validation)
- Liaising with senior management so that the necessary action can be taken
- Providing advice and support to staff on the use of information and statistics made available to them and to communicate highly complex analytical information to non-analytical staff in a simple and clear manner.
- Extracting and processing data using SQL, R etc.
- Contribute to the wider work around developing the local system data and knowledge infrastructure by improving data quality where possible.
About us
NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We were formed with the intention to improve population health and collaborate with local partners (NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector) to deliver high quality health and social care provision to our local population.
We have accountability for the system delivery of the ICS' priorities such as improving outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, enhancing productivity and value for money, and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.
We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer access and choice to our patients. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally. In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing significant financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (ICS 5-year strategic plan).
The ambitions are great, but so are the opportunities to be part of our new and evolving organisation, to make positive impactful change to the health and social care agenda across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This senior analyst position will take responsibility for their own work and answer specific questions required of the ICS with the support from the SAIU teams and include:
- Establishing close links with key stakeholders to help work up and clarify the questions required of the analysis.
- Collection of datasets from various organisations and sources to support the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire system through the areas of Quality, maternity and performance.
- Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise.
- Work with internal stakeholders and external provider organisations to understand and interpret what and how metrics can be applied to meet the priority outcomes and inform transformation opportunities.
- Present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- To further develop the dashboard capabilities and create a web based interface that supports customer requirements.
- Use advanced modelling techniques to forecast and validate outputs with colleagues. This will involve the use of R software but training will be provided where necessary.
- To develop reports and dashboard views that allow a quality intelligence focus at system and place based view
- To support the provision of robust information & performance analysis around patient safety, patient experience and clinical outcomes, corporate performance and strategic decision making functions of the ICS
- To provide analysis around complex datasets to ensure they are accurate and complete within agreed timescales, meeting internal and external requirements.
Support to contracts / SLAs
- Provide analytical support to specific teams.
- Production of reports and dashboards using automation where possible.
- Interrogation of data from a range of sources that includes regional and national data sets, local contractual data, provider data sets using SQL, R etc.
- Support for a range of health/care service providers
Job description
Job responsibilities
This senior analyst position will take responsibility for their own work and answer specific questions required of the ICS with the support from the SAIU teams and include:
- Establishing close links with key stakeholders to help work up and clarify the questions required of the analysis.
- Collection of datasets from various organisations and sources to support the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire system through the areas of Quality, maternity and performance.
- Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise.
- Work with internal stakeholders and external provider organisations to understand and interpret what and how metrics can be applied to meet the priority outcomes and inform transformation opportunities.
- Present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- To further develop the dashboard capabilities and create a web based interface that supports customer requirements.
- Use advanced modelling techniques to forecast and validate outputs with colleagues. This will involve the use of R software but training will be provided where necessary.
- To develop reports and dashboard views that allow a quality intelligence focus at system and place based view
- To support the provision of robust information & performance analysis around patient safety, patient experience and clinical outcomes, corporate performance and strategic decision making functions of the ICS
- To provide analysis around complex datasets to ensure they are accurate and complete within agreed timescales, meeting internal and external requirements.
Support to contracts / SLAs
- Provide analytical support to specific teams.
- Production of reports and dashboards using automation where possible.
- Interrogation of data from a range of sources that includes regional and national data sets, local contractual data, provider data sets using SQL, R etc.
- Support for a range of health/care service providers
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Strong analytical experience (>4+) in project working and leading on the analytical outputs
- High level of experience in communications and stakeholder management
- Knowledge and experience of SQL
Analyse data for performance measurement within the context of the relevant heath/care environment
Essential
- You can apply a range of techniques to analyse data and provide insight.
- You can communicate findings and encourage utilisation of data for business decision-making.
Employ applicable data sources to produce valid, verifiable and replicable analyses
Essential
- You can specify how data should be cleansed and prepared and ensure processes and documentation reflect this to ensure valid and replicable results.
Apply relevant software and numeracy skills with a range of analytical techniques
Essential
- You have a good knowledge of predictive, prescriptive, and evaluative analytical techniques
Deploy problem-solving skills to define requirements for analytical work
Essential
- You are able to work with a requestor of the analysis to examine the underlying question and apply your knowledge to generate an approach to the analysis
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Strong analytical experience (>4+) in project working and leading on the analytical outputs
- High level of experience in communications and stakeholder management
- Knowledge and experience of SQL
Analyse data for performance measurement within the context of the relevant heath/care environment
Essential
- You can apply a range of techniques to analyse data and provide insight.
- You can communicate findings and encourage utilisation of data for business decision-making.
Employ applicable data sources to produce valid, verifiable and replicable analyses
Essential
- You can specify how data should be cleansed and prepared and ensure processes and documentation reflect this to ensure valid and replicable results.
Apply relevant software and numeracy skills with a range of analytical techniques
Essential
- You have a good knowledge of predictive, prescriptive, and evaluative analytical techniques
Deploy problem-solving skills to define requirements for analytical work
Essential
- You are able to work with a requestor of the analysis to examine the underlying question and apply your knowledge to generate an approach to the analysis
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.
