Job summary
Overview
The North West London ICB is looking for an experienced analytical professional to join our business intelligence team. The post holder would take responsibility for primary care reporting and would be engaging with our cancer alliance, RM Partners, and develop reports/analysis as required by RM Partners. RM Partners provide services to South West London ICS and we expect the post holder to share analysis and analytical methodology with SWL colleagues.
We are looking for someone with hands-on skills that will require the candidate to
- analyse complex datasets
- direct the production of information reports
- develop and deliver specialised training
- contribute to the implementation of complex information projects
- interpret client requests and develop local Statements of Work
If you are technically sound, passionate about delivering business change through systems and data, want to be challenged, organised, hard-working, flexible and enjoy a fast paced working environment, we'd like to hear from you.
Main Listing
Employer: Imperial College Health Partners
Department: Information Directorate
Location: 307 Euston Road, London, NW1 3AD. Working site for this position: 15 Marylebone Rd, London, NW1 5JD
Salary: AfC Band 8a
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) is seeking candidates with a passion for population health and data science to join our growing Information Directorate
Interview date: TBD
Main duties of the job
This is a senior analytical position with primary responsibility for
- Delivering and developing BI reporting and analytics to the wider ICS programmes
- Engaging with our cancer alliance, RM Partners, and delivering to their pipeline of analytical requests
- Engaging with clinical leads to undertake thorough review of coding within primary care to ensure reports/analytics developed are of good data quality
- Working in a matrix managed environment with reporting lines to both the ICB Business Intelligence teams as well as RM Partners
- Being a strong communicator and engage with a range of stakeholders to deliver the task assigned
- Working with South West London ICB team to ensure there is alignment in reporting approaches
- Being a subject matter expert in NHS datasets predominantly primary care data and how it is coded within clinical systems to help drive forward data quality improvements
- Developing visualisations that can be used by the wider ICS stakeholders to take a population health management approach and understand variations of care.
About us
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) is seeking candidates with a passion for population health and data science to join our growing Information Directorate.
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) is a partnership organisation bringing together NHS providers of healthcare services, clinical commissioning groups and leading universities across North West London. We have been designated by NHS England as the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for North West London, and we are one of 15 AHSNs across England which make up The AHSN Network.
Our organisation consists of colleagues with a range of talents and experiences; bringing together knowledge, skills, and abilities to the way we connect with our stakeholders.
This position is based within the NWL ICB and will also be expected to have presence in other locations dependant on resources available, some reasonable travel may be expected to locations within NWL.
Key Relationships
- Programmes teams within ICS
- ICB\ICS management teams
- ICT teams
- Other NHS and Local Borough BI teams
- NHSE, NHSD, NHSX; NHSI
- RM Partners Cancer Alliance
- SWL ICS
- Primary Care Clinical Leads
- NHS England National Team
Please also refer to the Generic Job Description & Personal Specification for this Band.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be able to provide strategic analysis and interpretation of the various data sources available to the ICB\ICS and to assist the ICB\ICS in understanding trends, challenges and opportunities and to identify the correct responses.
- To develop the reporting and analytical capability for cancer through close working with our cancer alliance
- Prioritise and coordinate work from RM Partners and ensure they are delivered on a timely basis.
- To work corporately to support the organisations information function.
- To work with the Performance & Information Manager, Performance and Information Team and ICB\ICS and primary care clinical leads to foster good working relationships and develop a coordinated supportive approach to working across the information function.
- To prioritise tight and often conflicting deadlines with short-term and more involved, highly complex long-term tasks.
- Provide information and detailed advice to influence organisational policy across different areas such as Local Delivery Plans, Performance Management, Benchmarking, and Service Level Agreements.
- Responsible for the development and delivery of new information systems and information flows to collect and store data, analyse and automate information reporting and presentation.
- Design and develop new information collection and reporting systems as and when required. Work with Data Management team within BI to ensure data sets can be processed and loaded for analytical use.
- Undertake analysis of highly complex and varied datasets, using advanced statistical techniques using Excel and SQL programming skills. Then further analysis to investigate issues highlighted from the routine monitoring process.
- To interrogate highly complex databases using SQL and other analytical software like R, Python, STATA etc.
- To visualise the reports in tableau and make them accessible through our central tableau server.
- Undertake ad-hoc analysis of highly complex and varied datasets upon request from RM Partners, often with little prior warning, under pressure to tight deadlines.
- Log work requests in a central BI system to ensure visibility of outstanding requests and enable performance reporting against SLA targets.
- To Interpret and present clear and unambiguous information to inform the functions carried out by the ICB\ICS.
- To assess the information needs of the ICB, RM Partners and establishing reporting/analytics to meet these needs and to review these needs on a regular basis.
- Develop and ensure implementation and compliance of information strategies to enable the effective functioning of the ICB\ICS, in a changing environment, responding to both external and internal pressures in line with, and when appropriate, influencing ICB\ICS information strategy.
- To work closely with the Heads of Analytics of ICB\ICS and RM Partners and inform them in the use of information in decision-making, planning, performance managing and commissioning.
- Manages key delivery requirements for cancer reporting as set out by RM Partners
- Ensuring a population health management approach is undertaken with all analysis
- Able to work in a matrix managed environment and ensuring they perform effectively to deliver to the portfolio
- Able to effectively negotiate the requirements from internal and external stakeholders
- This post is subject to the terms and conditions of employment of the North West London ICB\ICS.
- This is not an exhaustive list of duties; staff are therefore required to undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade and in line with the requirement of this post
- Confidential information may be accessed at times and all CCG staff must ensure that the highest level of confidentiality is maintained at all times
- All ICB\ICS staff must comply with the Staff Code of Conduct. Senior Managers must also comply with the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers, based on the Nolan principles of public accountability
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be able to provide strategic analysis and interpretation of the various data sources available to the ICB\ICS and to assist the ICB\ICS in understanding trends, challenges and opportunities and to identify the correct responses.
- To develop the reporting and analytical capability for cancer through close working with our cancer alliance
- Prioritise and coordinate work from RM Partners and ensure they are delivered on a timely basis.
- To work corporately to support the organisations information function.
- To work with the Performance & Information Manager, Performance and Information Team and ICB\ICS and primary care clinical leads to foster good working relationships and develop a coordinated supportive approach to working across the information function.
- To prioritise tight and often conflicting deadlines with short-term and more involved, highly complex long-term tasks.
- Provide information and detailed advice to influence organisational policy across different areas such as Local Delivery Plans, Performance Management, Benchmarking, and Service Level Agreements.
- Responsible for the development and delivery of new information systems and information flows to collect and store data, analyse and automate information reporting and presentation.
- Design and develop new information collection and reporting systems as and when required. Work with Data Management team within BI to ensure data sets can be processed and loaded for analytical use.
- Undertake analysis of highly complex and varied datasets, using advanced statistical techniques using Excel and SQL programming skills. Then further analysis to investigate issues highlighted from the routine monitoring process.
- To interrogate highly complex databases using SQL and other analytical software like R, Python, STATA etc.
- To visualise the reports in tableau and make them accessible through our central tableau server.
- Undertake ad-hoc analysis of highly complex and varied datasets upon request from RM Partners, often with little prior warning, under pressure to tight deadlines.
- Log work requests in a central BI system to ensure visibility of outstanding requests and enable performance reporting against SLA targets.
- To Interpret and present clear and unambiguous information to inform the functions carried out by the ICB\ICS.
- To assess the information needs of the ICB, RM Partners and establishing reporting/analytics to meet these needs and to review these needs on a regular basis.
- Develop and ensure implementation and compliance of information strategies to enable the effective functioning of the ICB\ICS, in a changing environment, responding to both external and internal pressures in line with, and when appropriate, influencing ICB\ICS information strategy.
- To work closely with the Heads of Analytics of ICB\ICS and RM Partners and inform them in the use of information in decision-making, planning, performance managing and commissioning.
- Manages key delivery requirements for cancer reporting as set out by RM Partners
- Ensuring a population health management approach is undertaken with all analysis
- Able to work in a matrix managed environment and ensuring they perform effectively to deliver to the portfolio
- Able to effectively negotiate the requirements from internal and external stakeholders
- This post is subject to the terms and conditions of employment of the North West London ICB\ICS.
- This is not an exhaustive list of duties; staff are therefore required to undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade and in line with the requirement of this post
- Confidential information may be accessed at times and all CCG staff must ensure that the highest level of confidentiality is maintained at all times
- All ICB\ICS staff must comply with the Staff Code of Conduct. Senior Managers must also comply with the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers, based on the Nolan principles of public accountability
Person Specification
Area Values, behaviours & personal attributes
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to the organization's values, which are: collaboration, courage, quality, and impact. Commitment to focus on quality, to promotes high standard, and to consistently improve patient outcomes.
- Flexibility to look beyond existing structures, ways of working to produce more effective and innovative means of working.
- Demonstrate and promote high standards of quality customer care to both internal and external customers
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness. Able to use and act on feedback from others on your performance and behaviour.
Skills and capabilities
Essential
- Adept at constructing technical specifications reflecting the client brief, and to lead work (giving expert advice on data related issues) autonomously but requesting management support as appropriate.
- Ability to provide and receive highly complex information and to communicate it to others in ways that they understand - including the complexities, opportunities, and limitations associated with using large health and care datasets
- Ability to assess planned projects to ensure they will exceed expectations; and to develop and communicate high quality, accurately costed proposals reflecting the client brief
- Data extraction, analysis, and presentation skills (e.g. via Access, Excel SSRS, SSIS, SQL, Report Builder Skills etc.)
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Experience of gathering requirements from stakeholders and writing technical specifications.
- Demonstrable experience developing new data processes and reporting with supporting SOPs
- Experience in applying statistical methods to address real world problems in health and care
- Proven ability to carry out data analyses using a wide range of health data (including SUS, SLAM, Mental health, Community, High cost drugs and primary datasets) and clinical coding.
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate qualification (1st or 2:1) or equivalent experience in a quantitative discipline, ideally with significant exposure to advanced informatics / analytical concepts
- Masters qualification in a quantitative discipline with significant exposure to advanced informatics concepts
- PostGraduate Diploma level qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Prince2 or equivalent experience for the management of complex projects
Person Specification
Area Values, behaviours & personal attributes
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to the organization's values, which are: collaboration, courage, quality, and impact. Commitment to focus on quality, to promotes high standard, and to consistently improve patient outcomes.
- Flexibility to look beyond existing structures, ways of working to produce more effective and innovative means of working.
- Demonstrate and promote high standards of quality customer care to both internal and external customers
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness. Able to use and act on feedback from others on your performance and behaviour.
Skills and capabilities
Essential
- Adept at constructing technical specifications reflecting the client brief, and to lead work (giving expert advice on data related issues) autonomously but requesting management support as appropriate.
- Ability to provide and receive highly complex information and to communicate it to others in ways that they understand - including the complexities, opportunities, and limitations associated with using large health and care datasets
- Ability to assess planned projects to ensure they will exceed expectations; and to develop and communicate high quality, accurately costed proposals reflecting the client brief
- Data extraction, analysis, and presentation skills (e.g. via Access, Excel SSRS, SSIS, SQL, Report Builder Skills etc.)
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Experience of gathering requirements from stakeholders and writing technical specifications.
- Demonstrable experience developing new data processes and reporting with supporting SOPs
- Experience in applying statistical methods to address real world problems in health and care
- Proven ability to carry out data analyses using a wide range of health data (including SUS, SLAM, Mental health, Community, High cost drugs and primary datasets) and clinical coding.
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate qualification (1st or 2:1) or equivalent experience in a quantitative discipline, ideally with significant exposure to advanced informatics / analytical concepts
- Masters qualification in a quantitative discipline with significant exposure to advanced informatics concepts
- PostGraduate Diploma level qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Prince2 or equivalent experience for the management of complex projects
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Host: Imperial College Health Partners; Working site: NHS North West London
15 Marylebone Rd
London
NW1 5JD
Employer's website
https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)