Job summary
This is an essential role to provide the underpinning evidence and understanding of our communities and Health System so we can work collaboratively with and for our population. This role leads the corporate analytics and modelling team for the Health Board, collaborating with divisions, analysts, and clinicians to provide evidence on service performance and supporting organisational strategy. Responsibilities include producing analyses, advancing data modelling, and developing tools for data acquisition and management. The position offers insight into the impact of changes, helping ensure efficient and equitable healthcare across Gwent. This is a pivotal time to join as we strengthen our ability to support improvement throughout the Health Board.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide leadership and strategic guidance for insight and modelling practices, which are essential to enabling the Health Board to deliver high-quality, comprehensive, and coordinated services. They will be responsible for facilitating collaboration with staff across all Divisions, including operational, transformation, DDaT, and Public Health teams, overseeing the analysis and collection of data via Health Board platforms, and producing targeted insights, models, reports, and advisory information to support the Health Board and its partners in delivering and enhancing healthcare services. The post holder will deputise for the Head of System Planning and Performance, supporting the Clinical Futures Team in informing healthcare activity, shaping future policy, and planning resource requirements. Working alongside the Head of System Planning and Performance, they will take a leading role in analysing major service changes within the Health Board, contributing to strategy development and the IMTP planning process and submissions.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Educated to master's level in a relevant subject or equivalent demonstrable level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist analytical area and extensive senior experience in public health or health inequalities
- Substantial experience working at a senior level involving data analysis and modelling in healthcare settings
- Experienced leader
- Have specialist thorough knowledge of the principles of mathematics and statistics
- Must demonstrate knowledge of the current health system within Gwent, the aims and aspirations of the Health Board and current national health policy
- Knowledge of the Public Health agenda
- Knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda
- Experience of providing and presenting highly complex information to clinicians and senior managers (including at board level)
Experience
Essential
- Experience in designing, developing, and delivering strategically aligned data science and modelling training programmes
- Demonstrated experience with managing project scope and driving delivery in an evolving environment requiring proactivity and effective problem-solving and prioritisation when faced with challenges
- 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 qualifying and continuing professional development
Desirable
- Experience in data warehousing
- Relevant experience of working in health services planning within the public sector
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of public health services
- Practical advanced experience or training in SQL
- Practical advanced experience or training in Python or R
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Advanced IT skills with high level of experience of using Microsoft Office applications
- Ability to manage complex and varying workloads whilst delivering to often tight timescales
- Proven leadership skills and strong interpersonal, communication and organisational skills
- Experience of negotiation and motivation skills
- Experience and understanding of data quality issues
- High level of understanding of the role of operational research in delivering clinical, operational and strategic planning service improvement
- Ability to empower, coach and support staff
- Able to manage incidents, which are difficult, distressing and emotional. Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
- Ability to lead lead analysts /relevant stakeholder across multiple organisations to ensure that the work programme is well communicated and delivers outputs, as expected
- 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
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
- Excellent presentational skills for conveying complex concepts, be a competent translator of data
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others
- Be able to effectively lead training and development programmes for internal and external persons
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be several courses of action
Desirable
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Educated to master's level in a relevant subject or equivalent demonstrable level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist analytical area and extensive senior experience in public health or health inequalities
- Substantial experience working at a senior level involving data analysis and modelling in healthcare settings
- Experienced leader
- Have specialist thorough knowledge of the principles of mathematics and statistics
- Must demonstrate knowledge of the current health system within Gwent, the aims and aspirations of the Health Board and current national health policy
- Knowledge of the Public Health agenda
- Knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda
- Experience of providing and presenting highly complex information to clinicians and senior managers (including at board level)
Experience
Essential
- Experience in designing, developing, and delivering strategically aligned data science and modelling training programmes
- Demonstrated experience with managing project scope and driving delivery in an evolving environment requiring proactivity and effective problem-solving and prioritisation when faced with challenges
- 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 qualifying and continuing professional development
Desirable
- Experience in data warehousing
- Relevant experience of working in health services planning within the public sector
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of public health services
- Practical advanced experience or training in SQL
- Practical advanced experience or training in Python or R
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Advanced IT skills with high level of experience of using Microsoft Office applications
- Ability to manage complex and varying workloads whilst delivering to often tight timescales
- Proven leadership skills and strong interpersonal, communication and organisational skills
- Experience of negotiation and motivation skills
- Experience and understanding of data quality issues
- High level of understanding of the role of operational research in delivering clinical, operational and strategic planning service improvement
- Ability to empower, coach and support staff
- Able to manage incidents, which are difficult, distressing and emotional. Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
- Ability to lead lead analysts /relevant stakeholder across multiple organisations to ensure that the work programme is well communicated and delivers outputs, as expected
- 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
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
- Excellent presentational skills for conveying complex concepts, be a competent translator of data
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others
- Be able to effectively lead training and development programmes for internal and external persons
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be several courses of action
Desirable
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards
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).
