Job summary
PROVISIONAL INTERVIEW DATE FRIDAY 26 JANUARY 2024. INTERVIEWS MAY BE HELD WEEK COMMENCING 29 JANUARY 2024.
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated, forward-thinking individual to join the South Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism (MHLDA) Provider Collaborative Team.
Our Collaborative brings together four trusts to work at scale to benefit the population of South Yorkshire and membership comprises:
- South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, SWYPFT
- Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, SHSC
- Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust, RDaSH
- Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, SCFT
We are ambitious and want to significantly improve our MHLDA offer to the local population and for the South Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism community to be well regarded as a great place to work.
Transforming MHLDA services is a significant priority within South Yorkshire. This requires us to work across the whole system, with individual organisations and people who use our services. To do this we need to put in place robust business intelligence arrangements, ensuring we provide the right information at the right time to help our plans succeed.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Data Analyst will bring analytical and technical skills to inform strategy development and delivery of identified work priorities.
The role holder can understand and guide teams to apply a range of methods to analyse research data and synthesise findings, from initial receipt and preparation of the data asset through to analysis and interpretation of the data to support publication. Working as an analytical lead within multi-disciplinary teams alongside colleagues from across Data and Insights, the role holder will advise on the choice and application of techniques, and can critique colleagues' findings to assure best practice, ensuring that data are handled in an efficient and secure way in line with information governance legislation.
The role holder will apply the following skills including:
- Leading requirements gathering
- End-to-end process mapping
- Code development
- Data quality assurance, data cleansing and improvement
- Building and reviewing complex data models and undertaking data analysis and interpretation
- Building high-quality and complex data visualisations and written reports used to monitor performance and drive decisions that ensure improvement for patients/public
- Implement modelling techniques to predict scenarios and outcomes
This role will comply with all regulatory requirements in such areas as data quality and data security, within an environment that is committed to the proper governance and secure use of data.
About us
This role is hosted by RDaSH on behalf of the South Yorkshire MHLDA Provider Collaborative. The role holder will have an honorary contract with South Yorkshire ICB with day-to-day management and professional support being provided by South Yorkshire ICB Data and Insights Team. The role holder will work closely with the provider trust Performance and Informatics teams.
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 3700 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.
We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.
We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values.
To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:
http://workwith.rdash.nhs.uk/
Job description
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Job description
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Education to a Master's degree level in a numerate discipline, or an equivalent level of knowledge
Experience
Essential
- Experience of identifying and managing areas where there are shared and conflicting agendas
- Experience of leading on a range of concurrent projects using recognised tools (Agile, Prince2), including the allocation of work to other staff, to deliver quality outcomes to deadline and identifying risks
- Experience of devising solutions to ensure internal specialist expertise adds demonstrable value to the wider system
Desirable
- Significant experience with using record level data, data analysis, and producing bespoke analytical products, including visualisations and written reports
- Design and commission new work, such as a new survey
- Experience and aptitude in using a statistical package, e.g. SAS, SPSS or R
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Strong analytical and requirements gathering skills
- Be able to understand and interpret results from complex or novel analysis, apply the results to the given problem and suggest conclusions to be drawn
- Able to present and explain results of complex analysis via written and verbal communication
- Applies knowledge of new and evolving technologies, including opensource software, and has confidence in making decisions around which methods and techniques to apply, and assists others in making these decisions
- Knowledge of professional standards (including Code of Practice for Statistics, Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act) and their application
- Understanding of a wide range of data quality issues and the application of the appropriate data validation techniques
- Expert knowledge in appropriate software
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Education to a Master's degree level in a numerate discipline, or an equivalent level of knowledge
Experience
Essential
- Experience of identifying and managing areas where there are shared and conflicting agendas
- Experience of leading on a range of concurrent projects using recognised tools (Agile, Prince2), including the allocation of work to other staff, to deliver quality outcomes to deadline and identifying risks
- Experience of devising solutions to ensure internal specialist expertise adds demonstrable value to the wider system
Desirable
- Significant experience with using record level data, data analysis, and producing bespoke analytical products, including visualisations and written reports
- Design and commission new work, such as a new survey
- Experience and aptitude in using a statistical package, e.g. SAS, SPSS or R
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Strong analytical and requirements gathering skills
- Be able to understand and interpret results from complex or novel analysis, apply the results to the given problem and suggest conclusions to be drawn
- Able to present and explain results of complex analysis via written and verbal communication
- Applies knowledge of new and evolving technologies, including opensource software, and has confidence in making decisions around which methods and techniques to apply, and assists others in making these decisions
- Knowledge of professional standards (including Code of Practice for Statistics, Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act) and their application
- Understanding of a wide range of data quality issues and the application of the appropriate data validation techniques
- Expert knowledge in appropriate software
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).
