Cancer Reporting Specialist

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 17 March 2025

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Informatics team at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We have an excellent reputation for supporting and helping to improve patient care across the organisation. We are committed to deliver outstanding care by supporting the business needs of the organisation. This is for an individual who enjoys exploring data, building complex models, and Cancer reporting suite that will have a high impact on service design, development and delivery, to the benefit of our patients and service-users.

Key in this role with be supporting the realisation of the NEL Cancer strategy from a data perspective including Business Intelligence, KPI monitoring and supporting the development of service to board reporting.Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust sitsin themiddle ofone of the most diverse locations in the world. To this end we are committed to and champion equality and diversity in all aspects of our employment practice and service delivery. All employees are expected to understand and respect this commitment and work with us to promote equality and diversity in the course of their work.

To provide patient-centred care, we work with our NEL partners to achieve sustainable, measurable improvements so that our services are safer, more effective and timely.

Main duties of the job

Quality-assures the reported information, ensuring that there is consistency between the internal and external views
Develops - in conjunction with colleagues in Cancer Services and information services.
Identifies any data quality problems associated with pathway reporting and works with the Cancer Services management team to ensure their resolution
Represents the Trust on any network-wide or national cancer information groups
Keeps abreast of DH guidance on the recording and reporting of Cancer waiting times, cancer outcomes and services datasets, and national cancer audits and ensures that the Trust is aware of the implications of such guidance
PHE with relevant datasets to support cancer reporting, e.g. Cancer Outcomes and Services Dataset in line with national requirements Supports the information requirements of review processes and other forms of internal and external audit.
Provides MDM leads and clinical teams with tumour-group specific information
Provides advice on information issues to the Cancer Strategy and Surgical Vision teams, acting as a key liaison point
Liaises with the Somerset Cancer Information System (CIS) project team on all issues relating to information provision;
Regularly bench-mark the Trust's position for key business intelligence metrics against an agreed peer group and present the results to the senior operational management team

About us

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

Date posted

04 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£70,387 to £80,465 a year pro rata p.a. incl.

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

293-CSEP-0534

Job locations

Homerton site

Clifden Road

Homerton

E9 6SR

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification

Essential

Masters degree or equivalent experience
Advanced SQL and Excel skills
Proven ability to convey complex statistical and information concepts to non-technical audiences
Excellent communication and presentation skills - both written and verbal
Extensive experience of receiving and/or extracting complex and sensitive data sets from complex systems
Extensive experience of BI tools like Qlik, Tableau or Power BI
Extensive experience of supporting operational teams through high quality information datasets
Expert knowledge of Cancer Access Targets
Detailed technical knowledge of clinical information systems like EPR, Somerset etc

Desirable

Skilled in the use and interpretation of statistical analytical tools
Experience in Cancer Reporting
Expert knowledge of the Model Hospital portal

Person Specification

Essential

Masters degree or equivalent experience
Advanced SQL and Excel skills
Proven ability to convey complex statistical and information concepts to non-technical audiences
Excellent communication and presentation skills - both written and verbal
Extensive experience of receiving and/or extracting complex and sensitive data sets from complex systems
Extensive experience of BI tools like Qlik, Tableau or Power BI
Extensive experience of supporting operational teams through high quality information datasets
Expert knowledge of Cancer Access Targets
Detailed technical knowledge of clinical information systems like EPR, Somerset etc

Desirable

Skilled in the use and interpretation of statistical analytical tools
Experience in Cancer Reporting
Expert knowledge of the Model Hospital portal

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

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