Senior Data Analyst - Integrated Specialist Medicine
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 23 September 2024
Job summary
The Business Intelligence (BI) team within the Integrated Specialist Medicine Clinical Group at GSTT provides highly valuable analytical support to the service teams within the clinical group. Our work provides insights that enable our operational colleagues to make informed decisions about their service management.
We are seeking an experienced analyst with strong statistical knowledge to cover a secondment position until 31st March 2025 initially. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate interesting analytical responses to service needs and innovative design ideas to present them.
The post holder will be responsible for:
Main duties of the job
Being a core member of the ISM Business Intelligence team, ensuring high-quality analytical outputs to support operational colleagues understand and interpret their data effectively:
- Liaising with key stakeholders to understand their business needs and operational workflows.
- Becoming expert in the relevant data flows and data structures in the data warehouse. This will require ability with SQL server.
- Designing, building and presenting visualisations to respond to service needs. This will require ability with Power BI.
- Using appropriate analytical methods and tools to best support the service needs.
- Working with the appropriate stakeholders within and outside the clinical group such as the Trust Health Informatics team to improve data quality and processes.
- Supporting other BI colleagues with regular tasks and ad hoc data requests.
About us
As an organisation, we are committed to ensuring our staff feel valued and have the support they need. We know that healthier, happier colleagues provide even better, safer care to our patients.
Trust Values:
- Put patients first
- Take pride in what we do
- Respect others
- Strive to be the best
- Act with integrity
Job description
Job responsibilities
Analysis and judgement
- Identify most appropriate analytical method for the task
- Apply effective statistical understanding of the outputs and next steps
- Highlight areas to be called out, including data quality concerns
- Applying stringent assurance checks to ensure quality of outputs
Regular Reporting
- Automate routine tasks where possible
- Assist service colleagues with their regular data submissions where required
Communication
- Maintain regular communication with service colleagues and and other stakeholders
- Interpret and understand the business needs to identify the most appropriate response
- Assist colleagues to understand and effectively interpret the data and visualisations
For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS
Job description
Job responsibilities
Analysis and judgement
- Identify most appropriate analytical method for the task
- Apply effective statistical understanding of the outputs and next steps
- Highlight areas to be called out, including data quality concerns
- Applying stringent assurance checks to ensure quality of outputs
Regular Reporting
- Automate routine tasks where possible
- Assist service colleagues with their regular data submissions where required
Communication
- Maintain regular communication with service colleagues and and other stakeholders
- Interpret and understand the business needs to identify the most appropriate response
- Assist colleagues to understand and effectively interpret the data and visualisations
For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Graduate with high level of numeracy
- Educated to Master's Degree level or equivalent experience in data analysis
Experience
Essential
- Collate, analyse and interpret complex datasets with the proven ability to apply and explain complex analytical methods to non-analytical people
- Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders
- Identify underlying issues by analysing information and finding effective solutions
- Extensive experience of analysing complex datasets effectively in a variety of settings
- Experience of working with and combining data contained within different data sources
Desirable
- Knowledge of NHS data including its structure, definitions and relationship to clinical activity recording
- Developing dashboards using Power BI
- Experience of managing clinical data.
Skills
Essential
- Robust and systematic problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to adapt style and approach for a wide range of audiences and situations.
- MS Excel (Advanced level)
- Robust and systematic problem-solving skills
- Excellent listening and interpretation skills: able to gather and incorporate the views of staff and service users into a change process.
Desirable
- Good understanding of general statistical modelling
- Usage of DAX within Power BI
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Graduate with high level of numeracy
- Educated to Master's Degree level or equivalent experience in data analysis
Experience
Essential
- Collate, analyse and interpret complex datasets with the proven ability to apply and explain complex analytical methods to non-analytical people
- Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders
- Identify underlying issues by analysing information and finding effective solutions
- Extensive experience of analysing complex datasets effectively in a variety of settings
- Experience of working with and combining data contained within different data sources
Desirable
- Knowledge of NHS data including its structure, definitions and relationship to clinical activity recording
- Developing dashboards using Power BI
- Experience of managing clinical data.
Skills
Essential
- Robust and systematic problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to adapt style and approach for a wide range of audiences and situations.
- MS Excel (Advanced level)
- Robust and systematic problem-solving skills
- Excellent listening and interpretation skills: able to gather and incorporate the views of staff and service users into a change process.
Desirable
- Good understanding of general statistical modelling
- Usage of DAX within Power BI
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).
