Job summary
To deliver the ambitions of the Frimley and BOB ICS' the integrated system analytics team have created an advanced shared care record and population health analytics platform that provides unprecedented clinical data sharing, detailed analytics insights into the needs and priorities of our population and the clinical services that support them.
This role will look to support the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System (BOB ICS) to realise the evidence led transformational culture across both the ICS and the local organisations (within the footprint) and develop needs and priority-based analytics solutions. You will influence the strategic solution development roadmap to ensure cross system alignment and drive adoption and utilisation across all ICS partner organisations.
Working as part of the wider cross ICS Digital team this role is an integral component of the delivery of integrated digital transformation solutions that drive whole system change and the Frimley Health & Care ICS and BOB ICS requires a strong and experienced leader to support this work stream.
The position is based at Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot but will be predominately home based and requiring regular travel across the Frimley and BOB ICS geographies.
Main duties of the job
- As a senior member of the ICS' team, you will be working with Executives and Managers across the BOB ICS organisations to design and structure approaches and best practice, to be rolled out across the system.
- You will support the ICS CIO and Director of System Transformation to develop the future of shared care records and analytics for the Frimley Health & Care System and partner Systems and support the System(s) to develop and implement their vision for data sharing and analytics.
- Working across organisations in a highly fluid environment, you will need to be adaptable within your role, working closely with local and system teams and managing stakeholders concerns and expectations.
- You will be expected to skilfully challenge senior members across organisations to drive evidence led behaviours and decisions in a manner that is both positive and drives enthusiasm.
- You will work closely with the ICS ADs of Analytics/Shared Care Record and (and teams) to develop delivery plans, providing accurate and robust modelling on the impact and investment required to support the projects.
- You will be comfortable operating in a highly political and sensitive environment, which is fluid and where the end goal or path may not always be clearly defined.
About us
There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Engage with senior ICP clinical and operational stakeholders to develop needs and benefit prioritised development requirements.
- Develop best practice approaches for several areas, including approaches to modelling impact, investment and converting activity to true system costs and implementing these approaches across the system.
- Work closely with Strategy, Performance, Finance and Operations teams to amend business processes and drive cultural change where relevant, to ensure the best practice approaches are not completed in isolation.
- Support the ICS workstreams to develop effective delivery plans and ensure each workstream has a robust investment and impact model.
- Support the ICS workstreams to evaluate their performance by assessing the robustness of their assumptions and providing a structure for feedback and review.
- Provide coaching for local resources in best practice approaches and empower (and train where relevant) resources to apply this approach across all future activity.
- To work flexibly as the system priorities require you to do so, supporting the other system analytics team members with priorities where it is possible to do so.
- Support the ADs of Analytics/Shared Care Record in developing the evolving vision for solutions.
- Work collaboratively with wider ICS Digital workstream leads to develop and deliver innovative integrated digital solutions for operational, clinical, and resident stakeholders.
- Develop the approach to segmenting the local population by condition, need and demographic, to ensure increasingly accurate impact modelling can be completed.
- Oversee research and modelling activity in the wider system and locally, to ensure any findings and recommendations are conducted in a robust and accurate method, challenging others findings where necessary.
- Become the recognised system champion for best practice approaches, such as modelling and champion evidence led decision culture.
- Positively challenge Executives and Senior Management to ensure decisions are based on robust and accurate evidence, to lead to the greatest impact for the population.
- Work with highly complex data, facts and situations requiring analysis, interpretations, and comparisons on a range of options and make clear and robust recommendations on the most impactful course of action.
- Promote and develop effective working partnerships including use and alignment of resources across the footprint.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Engage with senior ICP clinical and operational stakeholders to develop needs and benefit prioritised development requirements.
- Develop best practice approaches for several areas, including approaches to modelling impact, investment and converting activity to true system costs and implementing these approaches across the system.
- Work closely with Strategy, Performance, Finance and Operations teams to amend business processes and drive cultural change where relevant, to ensure the best practice approaches are not completed in isolation.
- Support the ICS workstreams to develop effective delivery plans and ensure each workstream has a robust investment and impact model.
- Support the ICS workstreams to evaluate their performance by assessing the robustness of their assumptions and providing a structure for feedback and review.
- Provide coaching for local resources in best practice approaches and empower (and train where relevant) resources to apply this approach across all future activity.
- To work flexibly as the system priorities require you to do so, supporting the other system analytics team members with priorities where it is possible to do so.
- Support the ADs of Analytics/Shared Care Record in developing the evolving vision for solutions.
- Work collaboratively with wider ICS Digital workstream leads to develop and deliver innovative integrated digital solutions for operational, clinical, and resident stakeholders.
- Develop the approach to segmenting the local population by condition, need and demographic, to ensure increasingly accurate impact modelling can be completed.
- Oversee research and modelling activity in the wider system and locally, to ensure any findings and recommendations are conducted in a robust and accurate method, challenging others findings where necessary.
- Become the recognised system champion for best practice approaches, such as modelling and champion evidence led decision culture.
- Positively challenge Executives and Senior Management to ensure decisions are based on robust and accurate evidence, to lead to the greatest impact for the population.
- Work with highly complex data, facts and situations requiring analysis, interpretations, and comparisons on a range of options and make clear and robust recommendations on the most impactful course of action.
- Promote and develop effective working partnerships including use and alignment of resources across the footprint.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in management, economics, statistics or related subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Desirable
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Finance, accounting, or advanced mathematics qualification
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Advanced analytical skills across a range of specialties including but not limited to, modelling, data visualisation, data analysis, forecasting and logic models
- Analyse highly complex issues, with conflicting information and determine recommendations that are robust
- Strong interpersonal skills including, negotiating, influencing, and resolving conflict
- Ability to think strategically and link evidence to drive impact.
- Ability to operate autonomously and take initiative and responsibility for decisions.
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problem.
Desirable
- Confident presentation skills, provide clear and concise presentations, persuading and influence others.
- Dynamic leader, adapting to different needs across a team and experienced coaching and development of individuals.
- Foster collaboration across multiple organisations and develop new networks.
- Project and programme management, particularly in an ambiguous environment.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience working in senior strategy roles, using analytics to drive strategic plans, possibly in a strategy consulting role or strategy/management role.
- In depth understanding and experience working with health and social care data.
- Experience in working with clinical leaders to identify analytics driven system transformation opportunities.
- Expert in a range of analytical techniques and how they can be applied in a health setting.
- Proven experience working in complex and high-pressure environments.
- Capable of working across multiple organisations, often with different conflicting views on subject area.
Desirable
- Proven and significant leadership experience
- Demonstrated confidence in presenting clearly and concisely to Boards and senior leadership.
- Significant management experience at a senior level in the NHS or other industry.
- Experience of managing complex programmes in a healthcare environment or similar government/ public sector environment.
- Previous exposure and understanding of local issues and context within the Frimley system.
- Member of relevant professional body.
Communication
Essential
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on potentially challenging issues and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Confident presentation skills, provide clear and concise presentations, persuading and influence others with highly contentious and complex data.
Desirable
- Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, strategy, and innovation opportunities.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in management, economics, statistics or related subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Desirable
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Finance, accounting, or advanced mathematics qualification
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Advanced analytical skills across a range of specialties including but not limited to, modelling, data visualisation, data analysis, forecasting and logic models
- Analyse highly complex issues, with conflicting information and determine recommendations that are robust
- Strong interpersonal skills including, negotiating, influencing, and resolving conflict
- Ability to think strategically and link evidence to drive impact.
- Ability to operate autonomously and take initiative and responsibility for decisions.
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problem.
Desirable
- Confident presentation skills, provide clear and concise presentations, persuading and influence others.
- Dynamic leader, adapting to different needs across a team and experienced coaching and development of individuals.
- Foster collaboration across multiple organisations and develop new networks.
- Project and programme management, particularly in an ambiguous environment.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience working in senior strategy roles, using analytics to drive strategic plans, possibly in a strategy consulting role or strategy/management role.
- In depth understanding and experience working with health and social care data.
- Experience in working with clinical leaders to identify analytics driven system transformation opportunities.
- Expert in a range of analytical techniques and how they can be applied in a health setting.
- Proven experience working in complex and high-pressure environments.
- Capable of working across multiple organisations, often with different conflicting views on subject area.
Desirable
- Proven and significant leadership experience
- Demonstrated confidence in presenting clearly and concisely to Boards and senior leadership.
- Significant management experience at a senior level in the NHS or other industry.
- Experience of managing complex programmes in a healthcare environment or similar government/ public sector environment.
- Previous exposure and understanding of local issues and context within the Frimley system.
- Member of relevant professional body.
Communication
Essential
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on potentially challenging issues and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Confident presentation skills, provide clear and concise presentations, persuading and influence others with highly contentious and complex data.
Desirable
- Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, strategy, and innovation opportunities.
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).
