Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to support Neurosciences across London though this new role 'Data Analyst and Project Manager'. The post is funded through the national NHSE Neurosciences transformation team via the London Neurosurgery Networks.
The role will be hosted at King's College Hospital through the current Network hosting arrangements but will require travel to sites across London as well as some remote working.
The senior data analyst and Informatics Project Manager will work with the specialised networks - Neurosurgery networks, spine networks and rehabilitation networks across London and also the tertiary provider organisations and NHS London.
Main duties of the job
The principal responsibility of the role is to manage the production of consistently high quality information for the Specialist Networks and Strategy teams within NHS London and the developing ICBs. There will be a comprehensive induction programme to support and align the post holder with the five Integrated Care Boards across London and the service providers involved in Neurosciences across London.
This role will also play a key role in integrating with the NHSE data teams, GIRFT programme leads and business intelligence teams within provider organisations.
About us
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.
King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reachis our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King's to another level.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB TITLE: Pan London Senior Data Analyst and Informatics Project Manager Neurosciences Networks
GRADE: Band 8a
TENURE: 2 year full-time contract
HOURS: 37.5
FUNDING: This role is funded through the National NHSE Neurosciences Transformation team via the London Neurosurgery Network budget.
BASE: The position is hosted at Kings College Hospital. Some travel to sites across the region will be required but much of the role can be conducted through remote working
This role will be based at Kings College Hospital
- Job Summary
The senior data analyst and Informatics Project Manager will work with the specialised networks Neurosurgery networks, spine networks and rehabilitation networks across London and also the tertiary provider organisations and NHS London.
The principal responsibility of the role is to manage the production of consistently high quality information for the Specialist Networks and Strategy teams within NHS London and the developing ICBs. They will also play a key role in integrating with the NHSE data teams, GIRFT programme leads and business intelligence teams within provider organisations.
The post holder will work closely with the network leads to promote the ownership and achievement of activity and performance targets across projects and the regional network as it develops, with a particular focus on demand and capacity analysis to support teams and other NHS organisations to plan service delivery and also work to provide data and reports aligned to the high impact changes which are being nationally driven by the NHSE Neurosciences programme.
As a pivotal member of the Neurosciences networks (neurosurgery, spine and neuro-rehabilitation), the post holder will advise team members on how to develop a robust information capture strategy, and then lead on the capture, processing and interpretation of this information. They will use information to map out current patient population within the region and work towards modelling future service provision based on this.
This Data Analyst / Informatics Project Manager will be an expert in their field. They will be required to possess an advanced level of analysis and investigative skills and be able to resolve complex analytical queries and issues, where there is a range of solutions and analyses. They will also be required to interpret and resolve highly complex statistical and information problems where there is no precedent or where leading opinions may conflict.
- Key Relationships
- North and South London Neurosurgery Networks Team
- Executive teams at host organisation
- NHSE Programme of care Leads
- NHSE Networks Leads
- Heads of Service and Matrons / Senior nursing staff
- Heads of Service and Matrons / Senior nursing Staff
- Consultant Medical Staff and their teams
- Health Informatics management team and staff
- Coding teams
- Information managers in other trusts
- NHS England
- Duties and Responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop innovative information capture and reporting mechanisms to assist strategy managers and clinicians across the London networks within Neurosciences. This will include providing information and analytical support for the evaluation and validation of the various large programmes that are being undertaken particularly focusing on the development of a regionals network in London and the South East region relating to Neurosciences.
- Develop modelling tools and techniques to aid analysis of complex activity relationships for regional capacity planning and service redesign.
- Support the delivery of The High Impact Actions over the next 5 years primarily through supporting and informing the decision making process for large scale programmes such as the North and South London Neurosurgery Networks.
The five High Impact Actions have been identified through the National NHSE Neurosciences Programme, and are:
- Establishing optimum pathways
- Flow improvements
- Quality and Safety improvements
- Theatre and productivity improvements
- Outpatient improvements
- Contribute to the development of an information culture across the neurosciences networks and provider organisations that are partners within networks.
- Lead, manage and ensure the successful delivery of various clinical informatics projects, including planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting.
- Create a new rolling programme of strategic review projects, focusing on particular areas of activity within those five high impact actions to inform future strategic decisions.
Managerial Responsibilities
- Creation and ongoing management of complex and detailed information sets that will be used in partnership with clinical and managerial staff to inform decisions on service provision and delivery across the region, as well as the financial impacts of system-wide change
- Creation and ongoing management of clinical outcome and performance reports for the London region to assess system-wide and individual organisational successes and areas for development and link with colleagues within NHSE southeast region.
- Provide analytical support to project teams and task-forces
- Form formal working relationships with IT, informatics, 2-week-wait office and coding departments in host organisation, partner organisations, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), NHSE and national database systems e.g. model hospital and GIRFT.
- Present workshops/training sessions to large groups of staff
- Provide project team members with coaching and training in the required diagnostic, problem solving and information management skills
- Conduct direct training sessions for staff across the neurosciences networks within London and partner stakeholders on a wide range of services and software applications
Information Management and Planning
- Create, manage and maintain relevant information databases.
- Be responsible for ensuring robust interfaces between Host organisation and Trust reporting and data storage systems.
- Review existing reporting structures and analytical reports providing recommendations to ensure that these fully support the strategic improvement work towards the high impact actions.
- Design reports to inform strategic direction for Neurosurgery, Spine and Neuro-rehabilitation networks and priorities as well as specific programmes and projects
- Oversee regular reporting and ad-hoc reports and provide analytical and interpretative reports when required
- Be responsible for adapting systems to meet new strategic requirements
- Develop, in conjunction with other members of the strategy team, innovative ways of delivering services, taking advantage of any new technical developments available
Specialist role
- Provide expert advice and guidance to managerial and clinical users on the interpretation and effective use of highly complex and at times conflicting information, often from multiple sources.
- Keep abreast of DH guidance on recording and reporting
- Work to improve the completeness and accuracy of reporting, taking into account the rapidly changing service needs and evolving capabilities of our IT technologies and the new IT developments within partner organisations e.g. the Apollo upgrade at some sites.
- Engage with managers and employees across the host trust and partner trusts to understand how information is used and how the service could be improved
- Offer internal consultancy to managers on information requirements and reporting metrics to support their business objectives. Develop benchmarking and workforce intelligence to inform decision making.
- Develop processes and systems to improve ways of capturing data for improved accuracy and efficiency of collection and reporting. This will involve running focus groups and mapping out current and new processes.
- Lead the production of information management policies and procedures for strategic projects, ensuring that project team members understand the implications of these policies and working according to their frameworks.
Financial
- Create a financial planning system to enable strategic projects to model and plan the impacts of changes to service delivery and provision on income and expenditure. This will require creation from scratch, the application of specialist knowledge of information and how to interpret large data sets.
- Use the financial planning system to inform large-scale programmes of work to redesign the provision and delivery of care across London and the population it serves.
- Identify potential loss of income through data incompleteness or system issues and take remedial action
- Produce business cases for service developments
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB TITLE: Pan London Senior Data Analyst and Informatics Project Manager Neurosciences Networks
GRADE: Band 8a
TENURE: 2 year full-time contract
HOURS: 37.5
FUNDING: This role is funded through the National NHSE Neurosciences Transformation team via the London Neurosurgery Network budget.
BASE: The position is hosted at Kings College Hospital. Some travel to sites across the region will be required but much of the role can be conducted through remote working
This role will be based at Kings College Hospital
- Job Summary
The senior data analyst and Informatics Project Manager will work with the specialised networks Neurosurgery networks, spine networks and rehabilitation networks across London and also the tertiary provider organisations and NHS London.
The principal responsibility of the role is to manage the production of consistently high quality information for the Specialist Networks and Strategy teams within NHS London and the developing ICBs. They will also play a key role in integrating with the NHSE data teams, GIRFT programme leads and business intelligence teams within provider organisations.
The post holder will work closely with the network leads to promote the ownership and achievement of activity and performance targets across projects and the regional network as it develops, with a particular focus on demand and capacity analysis to support teams and other NHS organisations to plan service delivery and also work to provide data and reports aligned to the high impact changes which are being nationally driven by the NHSE Neurosciences programme.
As a pivotal member of the Neurosciences networks (neurosurgery, spine and neuro-rehabilitation), the post holder will advise team members on how to develop a robust information capture strategy, and then lead on the capture, processing and interpretation of this information. They will use information to map out current patient population within the region and work towards modelling future service provision based on this.
This Data Analyst / Informatics Project Manager will be an expert in their field. They will be required to possess an advanced level of analysis and investigative skills and be able to resolve complex analytical queries and issues, where there is a range of solutions and analyses. They will also be required to interpret and resolve highly complex statistical and information problems where there is no precedent or where leading opinions may conflict.
- Key Relationships
- North and South London Neurosurgery Networks Team
- Executive teams at host organisation
- NHSE Programme of care Leads
- NHSE Networks Leads
- Heads of Service and Matrons / Senior nursing staff
- Heads of Service and Matrons / Senior nursing Staff
- Consultant Medical Staff and their teams
- Health Informatics management team and staff
- Coding teams
- Information managers in other trusts
- NHS England
- Duties and Responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop innovative information capture and reporting mechanisms to assist strategy managers and clinicians across the London networks within Neurosciences. This will include providing information and analytical support for the evaluation and validation of the various large programmes that are being undertaken particularly focusing on the development of a regionals network in London and the South East region relating to Neurosciences.
- Develop modelling tools and techniques to aid analysis of complex activity relationships for regional capacity planning and service redesign.
- Support the delivery of The High Impact Actions over the next 5 years primarily through supporting and informing the decision making process for large scale programmes such as the North and South London Neurosurgery Networks.
The five High Impact Actions have been identified through the National NHSE Neurosciences Programme, and are:
- Establishing optimum pathways
- Flow improvements
- Quality and Safety improvements
- Theatre and productivity improvements
- Outpatient improvements
- Contribute to the development of an information culture across the neurosciences networks and provider organisations that are partners within networks.
- Lead, manage and ensure the successful delivery of various clinical informatics projects, including planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting.
- Create a new rolling programme of strategic review projects, focusing on particular areas of activity within those five high impact actions to inform future strategic decisions.
Managerial Responsibilities
- Creation and ongoing management of complex and detailed information sets that will be used in partnership with clinical and managerial staff to inform decisions on service provision and delivery across the region, as well as the financial impacts of system-wide change
- Creation and ongoing management of clinical outcome and performance reports for the London region to assess system-wide and individual organisational successes and areas for development and link with colleagues within NHSE southeast region.
- Provide analytical support to project teams and task-forces
- Form formal working relationships with IT, informatics, 2-week-wait office and coding departments in host organisation, partner organisations, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), NHSE and national database systems e.g. model hospital and GIRFT.
- Present workshops/training sessions to large groups of staff
- Provide project team members with coaching and training in the required diagnostic, problem solving and information management skills
- Conduct direct training sessions for staff across the neurosciences networks within London and partner stakeholders on a wide range of services and software applications
Information Management and Planning
- Create, manage and maintain relevant information databases.
- Be responsible for ensuring robust interfaces between Host organisation and Trust reporting and data storage systems.
- Review existing reporting structures and analytical reports providing recommendations to ensure that these fully support the strategic improvement work towards the high impact actions.
- Design reports to inform strategic direction for Neurosurgery, Spine and Neuro-rehabilitation networks and priorities as well as specific programmes and projects
- Oversee regular reporting and ad-hoc reports and provide analytical and interpretative reports when required
- Be responsible for adapting systems to meet new strategic requirements
- Develop, in conjunction with other members of the strategy team, innovative ways of delivering services, taking advantage of any new technical developments available
Specialist role
- Provide expert advice and guidance to managerial and clinical users on the interpretation and effective use of highly complex and at times conflicting information, often from multiple sources.
- Keep abreast of DH guidance on recording and reporting
- Work to improve the completeness and accuracy of reporting, taking into account the rapidly changing service needs and evolving capabilities of our IT technologies and the new IT developments within partner organisations e.g. the Apollo upgrade at some sites.
- Engage with managers and employees across the host trust and partner trusts to understand how information is used and how the service could be improved
- Offer internal consultancy to managers on information requirements and reporting metrics to support their business objectives. Develop benchmarking and workforce intelligence to inform decision making.
- Develop processes and systems to improve ways of capturing data for improved accuracy and efficiency of collection and reporting. This will involve running focus groups and mapping out current and new processes.
- Lead the production of information management policies and procedures for strategic projects, ensuring that project team members understand the implications of these policies and working according to their frameworks.
Financial
- Create a financial planning system to enable strategic projects to model and plan the impacts of changes to service delivery and provision on income and expenditure. This will require creation from scratch, the application of specialist knowledge of information and how to interpret large data sets.
- Use the financial planning system to inform large-scale programmes of work to redesign the provision and delivery of care across London and the population it serves.
- Identify potential loss of income through data incompleteness or system issues and take remedial action
- Produce business cases for service developments
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Informatics / Data Analysis
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Informatics / Data Analysis
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).
