Job summary
The role is a secondment or fixed term opportunity
THE BASE FOR THIS ROLE CAN BE LOCATED AT ANY OF THE HNYICB OFFICES
The Principal Analyst for Population
Health will be responsible for providing population health intelligence to clinical
networks within the Integrated Care System (ICS), allowing for a greater level
of intelligence-led decision-making. The role involves understanding, defining,
and delivering analysis for relevant subject areas; working with organisations
to help them to better understand their data; and collaborating with analytical
and operational teams from across the system, for the purpose of improving
health delivery and citizen outcomes.
As part of the Humber and
North Yorkshire ICB Data, Business Intelligence and Population Health
Intelligence team, you will be working with other analysts across the team and
wider analytics system, along with developers within the ICB on our Microsoft
Azure data tools, including Power BI.
Main duties of the job
This role will act as the key insight partner for population health
intelligence within clinical networks, with an initial focus on diabetes,
respiratory diseases and stroke. Working
with clinical and other partners to understand their needs, you will bring
together, analyse and present data, providing contextual insight relevant to
the audience, making use of internal and external data, including population
health data, the Stroke Sentinel National Audit Programme (SSNAP) and National
Diabetes Audit. You will apply your
knowledge, skills and experience in developing insight tools and dashboards using
Power BI and other applications and providing bespoke analysis to meet
population health intelligence programme needs.
This post requires a good understanding of information governance and maintaining
confidentiality in an analytical service.
About us
The ICB welcomes all applicants, however, we must
remind applicants that we currently do not hold a Tier 2 sponsorship license
(now called Skilled Worker visa sponsorship). Can we politely ask this is
considered before applying for this position.
NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for planning and arranging the provision of NHS services to meet the diverse health needs of a population of 1.7 million people. Our area reaches over 1,500 square miles and includes the cities of Hull and York and the large rural areas across East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire.
The ICB is part of the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, one of 42 Integrated Care Systems (ICS) across England to meet health and care needs, coordinate services and plan in a way that improves population health and reduces inequality between groups. The Health and Care Partnership comprises of NHS organisations, local councils, health and care providers and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations.
The Population Health
Intelligence team works with closely with data and business intelligence
colleagues, the Population Health and Prevention team and colleagues within the
wider partnership arrangements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder
will support the Associate Director of Population Health Intelligence to:
Analysis and
synthesis (data analyst)
understand and help teams to apply a range of
methods to analyse research data and synthesise findings
effectively engage sceptical colleagues in
analysis and synthesis
advise on the choice and application of
techniques, and can critique colleagues findings to assure best practice
Communication
listen to the needs of technical and business
stakeholders, and interpret them
effectively manage stakeholder expectations
manage active and reactive communication
support or host difficult discussions within the
team or with diverse senior stakeholders
Data Management
advocate data governance and data management
standards and guidelines within your teams products and services
continually communicate and improve data
management practices in your teams
help define and support the use of common
toolsets
seek to automate data management activities
where possible
develop processes to enable good data management
practices and compliance with data governance policies
For further details please see attached job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder
will support the Associate Director of Population Health Intelligence to:
Analysis and
synthesis (data analyst)
understand and help teams to apply a range of
methods to analyse research data and synthesise findings
effectively engage sceptical colleagues in
analysis and synthesis
advise on the choice and application of
techniques, and can critique colleagues findings to assure best practice
Communication
listen to the needs of technical and business
stakeholders, and interpret them
effectively manage stakeholder expectations
manage active and reactive communication
support or host difficult discussions within the
team or with diverse senior stakeholders
Data Management
advocate data governance and data management
standards and guidelines within your teams products and services
continually communicate and improve data
management practices in your teams
help define and support the use of common
toolsets
seek to automate data management activities
where possible
develop processes to enable good data management
practices and compliance with data governance policies
For further details please see attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to master's degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience and training from working within the NHS or public health in a similar role.
- In-depth specialist knowledge of analysis and the use of information across the NHS and / or public health acquired through experience and training.
- Knowledge of population health intelligence dataflows.
- Advanced working knowledge of analytical packages such as R, Power BI or SSMS.
- Strong statistical knowledge.
- Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
Desirable
- Degree in a statistics or informatics field.
- Detailed knowledge of Population Health Intelligence approaches.
- Detailed knowledge of NHS data flows for performance and activity.
- Detailed knowledge of an area of health care delivery (e.g. Urgent & Emergency care, Cancer, Community Services, Primary Care or Public Health).
Skills / competencies
Essential
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to competently present information for a variety of audiences, including senior leaders.
- Extremely strong data manipulation, statistical, interpretative and analytical skills with the ability to provide actionable insights from complex datasets.
- Awareness of Information Governance related especially to Personal Identifiable Data (PID).
- Analytical approach demonstrating attention to detail
- Ability to manage own workload and prioritise that of others
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
- Professional, calm and efficient. Positive and flexible approach to work.
Experience
Essential
- Detailed practical technical knowledge and experience of databases, including data import and processing.
- Experience in writing complex code, for example, SQL, Power BI DAX or R.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Significant experience of manipulating health data flows.
- Experience of information handling and integration of data from disparate sources.
Desirable
- Experience of leading negotiations dealing with highly complex, highly sensitive or contentious information.
- Experience in creating, maintaining and updating Power BI based reports.
- Experience of creating briefing papers and analytical reports and presenting to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders, including at SMT level.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to master's degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience and training from working within the NHS or public health in a similar role.
- In-depth specialist knowledge of analysis and the use of information across the NHS and / or public health acquired through experience and training.
- Knowledge of population health intelligence dataflows.
- Advanced working knowledge of analytical packages such as R, Power BI or SSMS.
- Strong statistical knowledge.
- Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
Desirable
- Degree in a statistics or informatics field.
- Detailed knowledge of Population Health Intelligence approaches.
- Detailed knowledge of NHS data flows for performance and activity.
- Detailed knowledge of an area of health care delivery (e.g. Urgent & Emergency care, Cancer, Community Services, Primary Care or Public Health).
Skills / competencies
Essential
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to competently present information for a variety of audiences, including senior leaders.
- Extremely strong data manipulation, statistical, interpretative and analytical skills with the ability to provide actionable insights from complex datasets.
- Awareness of Information Governance related especially to Personal Identifiable Data (PID).
- Analytical approach demonstrating attention to detail
- Ability to manage own workload and prioritise that of others
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
- Professional, calm and efficient. Positive and flexible approach to work.
Experience
Essential
- Detailed practical technical knowledge and experience of databases, including data import and processing.
- Experience in writing complex code, for example, SQL, Power BI DAX or R.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Significant experience of manipulating health data flows.
- Experience of information handling and integration of data from disparate sources.
Desirable
- Experience of leading negotiations dealing with highly complex, highly sensitive or contentious information.
- Experience in creating, maintaining and updating Power BI based reports.
- Experience of creating briefing papers and analytical reports and presenting to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders, including at SMT level.
