East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Divisional Analyst

The closing date is 01 June 2025

Job summary

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Divisional Data Analyst to join our Business Informatics team at ESNEFT.

This is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate your technical expertise while collaborating closely with our clinical team. This will require a balance of strong technical and interpersonal skills.

Providing a bespoke business intelligence service to operational and clinical colleagues to ensure data informs key decisions for operational planning and administering patient care.

Responsible for supporting the Head of Analytics in the seamless delivery of bespoke robust business intelligence (information and performance analysis) to stakeholders across our clinical divisions

Core focus on the provision of bespoke analysis to operational and clinical customers by using analytics techniques including regular performance dashboards, demand and capacity modelling, business planning, statistical analysis, and responding to ad hoc queries for information and analysis.

Working as an 'Analytical Business Partner', you will ensure that operational and clinical colleagues in the Operational Division have timely access to the insights they require to make strategic and tactical decisions.

You will also have experience in working with benchmarking tools, activity forecasting, modelling, and statistical analysis. You will have proven experience in using SQL querying for analysis and programming languages such R or Python.

Main duties of the job

Provide specialist advice across a wide range of information areas: collation, analysis, interpretation, evaluation and timely reporting of accurate data and information relating to activity, performance, clinical quality and outcomes within the Trust in accordance with national and local data quality and data protection requirements.
Investigate a range of specialist and complex information issues to inform Trust business planning and decision making.
Design and implement information solutions to meet the needs of a changing information environment and Clinical environments.
To work with staff at all levels within the Trust to develop the informatics function in line with the Informatics Programme Board Strategy..

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Date posted

16 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR237-25

Job locations

Ipswich/Colchester

IP4 5PD

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilitiesand dutiesof this role please see the attached job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilitiesand dutiesof this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Relevant degree or equivalent qualification or significant experience of working at degree level in a quantitative subject (e.g. Maths, Statistics, Physics, Economics, Operational Research).
Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

Project Management Qualification
Microsoft certification on PowerBI and Azure
Management /leadership qualification or equivalent knowledge at post graduate level
Machine learning, data analysis and forecasting
Python/R certification
Registered with AphA professionally or actively working towards registration.

Experience

Essential

Proven experience of working in a senior analyst/management/leadership role
Experience of facilitating change in practice to improve services
Project management/co-ordination
Experience of working to a Quality Assurance Framework

Desirable

Experience of managing /leading a team
Experience working on acute trust
Experience using Python/R
Experience using Microsoft Azure, including Data Bricks
Experience with report automation

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

SQL querying at intermediate/advanced level
Fundamentals of relational databases
Business planning /annual planning
Advanced user of MS Office suite, in particular Excel, PowerBI, and SQL Server
Working knowledge of NHS Data Standards and Information Systems.

Desirable

Experience working with R and Python
Statistical analysis and machine learning techniques
NHS IT systems
Knowledge of performance returns, definitions, guidance and performance management in the acute sector
Understanding of NHS data flows and information issues, including Data Standards, the Secondary Uses Service and commissioning information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Relevant degree or equivalent qualification or significant experience of working at degree level in a quantitative subject (e.g. Maths, Statistics, Physics, Economics, Operational Research).
Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

Project Management Qualification
Microsoft certification on PowerBI and Azure
Management /leadership qualification or equivalent knowledge at post graduate level
Machine learning, data analysis and forecasting
Python/R certification
Registered with AphA professionally or actively working towards registration.

Experience

Essential

Proven experience of working in a senior analyst/management/leadership role
Experience of facilitating change in practice to improve services
Project management/co-ordination
Experience of working to a Quality Assurance Framework

Desirable

Experience of managing /leading a team
Experience working on acute trust
Experience using Python/R
Experience using Microsoft Azure, including Data Bricks
Experience with report automation

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

SQL querying at intermediate/advanced level
Fundamentals of relational databases
Business planning /annual planning
Advanced user of MS Office suite, in particular Excel, PowerBI, and SQL Server
Working knowledge of NHS Data Standards and Information Systems.

Desirable

Experience working with R and Python
Statistical analysis and machine learning techniques
NHS IT systems
Knowledge of performance returns, definitions, guidance and performance management in the acute sector
Understanding of NHS data flows and information issues, including Data Standards, the Secondary Uses Service and commissioning 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.

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ipswich/Colchester

IP4 5PD

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ipswich/Colchester

IP4 5PD

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)