Job summary
Previous unsuccessful applicants need not apply
Are you interested in using data to make a difference to how we support cancer patients at Clatterbridge then this could be the role for you?
We are looking for a Divisional Information Analyst to join our BI team. This role will be vital in ensuring that we deliver a high quality and innovative Business Intelligence service to the Clinical Divisions. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about data and analysis who can work with our clinical and operational colleagues to make data and intelligence a part of everyday decisions.
The Trust has invested in a new data warehouse and new reporting tools and we need someone to be responsible for leading on analytics for the three Clinical Divisions.
This would be an ideal role for someone who has a passion for data and ideally extensive experience and detailed understanding of NHS Information. They would need to be able to provide expert analytics advice to a wide range of customers.
The Team is currently working in a blended fashion with an opportunity to work in our Wirral Centre or Liverpool Spine offices or to work at home. As this is part of our support to the Clinical Teams, they would also need to work at our new cancer hospital in the centre of Liverpool.
Main duties of the job
The Divisional Information Analyst will work closely with Divisional Managers, Clinicians and the wider business intelligence team to provide high quality business intelligence information and analysis to support the Divisional's objectives and business needs. They will become a core member of the areas they support and work to drive improvements in data management and analysis within the Divisions.
The Divisional Information Analyst will be responsible for the development, design and maintenance of health related datasets and complex information and analysis. They will provide advice and guidance on specialist analysis. They will assist in streamlining the information reporting processes and ensure appropriately analysed information is available to aid policy decisions in a timely manner.
The Divisional Information Analyst will ensure that all information produced across the department adheres to the Business Intelligence methodology. They will work with the Business Intelligence Development Team, Principal Information Analyst, stakeholders within the organisation to develop a set of standards for internal information reporting. Working to ensure no duplication of reports and provide assurance to the Head of Business Intelligence that all internal information is fit for purpose and available through a single Business Intelligence portal linked to the data warehouse and fully reconcilable.
About us
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust provides highly-specialist cancer care for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire.
In June 2020, we opened Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool, our spectacular new cancer hospital in the heart of Liverpool's Knowledge Quarter, providing state-of-the-art facilities as part of a £162m investment. Alongside our flagship hospital in Liverpool, we have two other main cancer centres:
- Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Wirral, providing outpatient cancer treatment and supportive care on the Clatterbridge Health Campus in Bebington, Wirral
- Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Aintree, our radiotherapy treatment centre on the Aintree University Hospital site
Together, working across three sites and operating specialist chemotherapy clinics in four other Merseyside hospitals, we deliver a comprehensive range of inpatient care, advanced radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies including gene therapies and immunotherapies.
We also deliver a pioneering Treatment at Home and Work service, are the only UK provider of low-energy proton beam therapy for rare eye cancers, and host the region's Teenage and Young Adult Unit.
Working with leading experts from the University of Liverpool, we strive to stay at the forefront of novel treatments and techniques to deliver more effective and personalised treatments.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Understand and interpret highly complex information and analytical requirements, assess the purpose for which outputs are required and support, develop and deliver appropriate solutions using various information query tools and languages.
Maintain and develop understanding of the range of sources of data both within and outside the organisation.
Analyse data for a wide range of customers, determining the best form for communicating/presenting the information, from simple to highly complex and ensuring that the presentation is relevant, comprehensible and conforms to agreed timescales with the customer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Understand and interpret highly complex information and analytical requirements, assess the purpose for which outputs are required and support, develop and deliver appropriate solutions using various information query tools and languages.
Maintain and develop understanding of the range of sources of data both within and outside the organisation.
Analyse data for a wide range of customers, determining the best form for communicating/presenting the information, from simple to highly complex and ensuring that the presentation is relevant, comprehensible and conforms to agreed timescales with the customer.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEducated to relevant degree level or equivalent proven practical experience
Desirable
- Membership of a relevant Fed-IP recognised professional body
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of NHS/Healthcare Information
- A high level of understanding of hospital processes and practices
Experience
Essential
- oDetailed analysis & validation of various types of data to inform assessment of performance of complex organisations and to help identify opportunities for improvement.
- oExpert knowledge and experience in using analysis or statistical techniques
- oProven experience working within an Information or analysis role.
- oExperience of using BI tools.
Skills
Essential
- oAbility to communicate complex (potentially contentious or sensitive) analytical issues to data literate persons or groups at various levels.
- oAble to interpret the client's needs, to ensure that the most appropriate data/information is provided
- oInnovative thinker with the ability to identify and consider alternative ways of enabling data to be collected and presented where conventional options are not available.
- oAbility to manipulate data from a variety of sources and present in the most appropriate format (maps, charts, tables etc.).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEducated to relevant degree level or equivalent proven practical experience
Desirable
- Membership of a relevant Fed-IP recognised professional body
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of NHS/Healthcare Information
- A high level of understanding of hospital processes and practices
Experience
Essential
- oDetailed analysis & validation of various types of data to inform assessment of performance of complex organisations and to help identify opportunities for improvement.
- oExpert knowledge and experience in using analysis or statistical techniques
- oProven experience working within an Information or analysis role.
- oExperience of using BI tools.
Skills
Essential
- oAbility to communicate complex (potentially contentious or sensitive) analytical issues to data literate persons or groups at various levels.
- oAble to interpret the client's needs, to ensure that the most appropriate data/information is provided
- oInnovative thinker with the ability to identify and consider alternative ways of enabling data to be collected and presented where conventional options are not available.
- oAbility to manipulate data from a variety of sources and present in the most appropriate format (maps, charts, tables etc.).
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).
