Job summary
This post of Senior Data analyst within a progressive and innovative Data and insights team within South Yorkshire ICB.
We are looking to recruit a Band 7 analyst who is passionate about data and making a difference to the lives of our patients ensuring the organisation making good data driven decisions.
This role is one of four band 7 analyst who will each be the lead point of contact for one of our four places within the ICB This role is for the Sheffield lead position, in addition to this each analyst will have portfolio areas where they are the subject matter experts and owners of the work we do. We would welcome candidates who have an interest/expertise in Performance level corporate reporting and/or Mental health or who are active learners and adaptive to cover the numerous data sets we use.
This post will include line management responsibility of a Data analyst and support them in management of a junior or associate analyst.
This role is a senior post within the team and will be involved alongside senior managers with the creating and delivering on aspects of the strategy and it is encouraged that the postholder bring new ideas and skills to the team to create best ways of working and to develop colleagues.
We are a values-based team and promote a good culture of openness and learning and all contribute to how the team works and how we best meet the needs of our colleagues and stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
This role will expose you to a wide number of different datasets and technical tools, Partners across different organisations including Public Health, Secondary care, Primary Care and Community and many more working to improve the lives and health of the people of South Yorkshire.
The role is 37.5 hours and will involve a hybrid working model with time spent at our Eyre Street site in Sheffield, Home working and may include travel to our sites across South Yorkshire in Barnsley, Rotherham, and Doncaster or external meetings at our partner sites.
You'll be responsible for the provision, scoping and delivery of information, structured analysis and data management to support all areas of the ICB and our partners.
You should be collaborative and proactive, working on a wide variety of initiatives using a range of skills and methodologies including Agile development.
Work with stakeholders and colleagues to deliver well scoped, clear tasks then implementing these in line with priorities.
Creation of Monitoring tools, self-serve applications and Indepth analysis to ensure evidence-based decisions can be made, maintain our core applications and deliver new solutions to support the health of our population.
You will be a point of escalation for the team helping them to remove blockers in their work or making a judgement call to escalate up for a resolution.
About us
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health
and social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our four places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on the
strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our local
communities to deliver our four key aims of Improving outcomes in
population health and healthcare; Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience
and access; Enhancing productivity and value for money; and Helping the NHS
support broader social and economic development.
Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader
health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South
Yorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with the
Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South
Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care
services that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GP
practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working
across seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000
voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We work
alongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSE
partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider
determinants of health in South Yorkshire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
The post holder can understand and guide teams to apply a range of methods.
Be responsible for ensuring the quality of data in the work we produce and ensuring we are compliant with IG rules.
This is a very varied role and as a team we all pitch in to do what's needed, using our Dev Ops system to track work and ensure incoming requests are logged on the system to ensure flow.
Working as an analytical lead within multi-disciplinary teams alongside colleagues from across Data & 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.
This post 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.
Essential criteria
- Education to a master's degree level in a numerate discipline, or an equivalent level of knowledge/experience
- Experience of Stakeholder management and conflict resolution
- Experience of line-managing teams of analytical professions and support their development
- Strong requirement gathering skills, use of analytical techniques and explanation and interpretation of data
- Be able to bring your expertise to subject matter areas and portfolios
- Able to lead and develop the team, self-manage and prioritise workloads for yourself and others
- Self-motivated, self-aware and proactive.
The applicant must also have the Ability/willingness to meet the travel requirements of the post.
Please be advised NHS Jobs Service will not be available 6pm on Friday 26 April to 9am on Monday 29 April 2024
Do not attempt to use the service at these times and consider this for your application submission.
Interview date:17th
May 2024
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
The post holder can understand and guide teams to apply a range of methods.
Be responsible for ensuring the quality of data in the work we produce and ensuring we are compliant with IG rules.
This is a very varied role and as a team we all pitch in to do what's needed, using our Dev Ops system to track work and ensure incoming requests are logged on the system to ensure flow.
Working as an analytical lead within multi-disciplinary teams alongside colleagues from across Data & 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.
This post 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.
Essential criteria
- Education to a master's degree level in a numerate discipline, or an equivalent level of knowledge/experience
- Experience of Stakeholder management and conflict resolution
- Experience of line-managing teams of analytical professions and support their development
- Strong requirement gathering skills, use of analytical techniques and explanation and interpretation of data
- Be able to bring your expertise to subject matter areas and portfolios
- Able to lead and develop the team, self-manage and prioritise workloads for yourself and others
- Self-motivated, self-aware and proactive.
The applicant must also have the Ability/willingness to meet the travel requirements of the post.
Please be advised NHS Jobs Service will not be available 6pm on Friday 26 April to 9am on Monday 29 April 2024
Do not attempt to use the service at these times and consider this for your application submission.
Interview date:17th
May 2024
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Education to a Masters degree level in a numerate discipline, or an equivalent level of knowledge.
Desirable
- Government Statistician Group Membership.
Attributes
Essential
- Able to work flexibly within situations of ambiguity.
- Is self motivated, self aware and proactive.
- Commitment to and focus on quality and meeting standards.
- Fosters good working relationships and embraces diversity & inclusion.
- Committed to professional development.
- Able to influence and advise using clear communication of complex insights.
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.
- Experience of developing metrics and measures to monitor outcomes.
- Experience of line-managing teams of analytical professions and support their development in line with industry standards.
Desirable
- Experience of working in the public sector.
- 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.
- Expert knowledge and experience of databases including database interrogation tools.
- Expert knowledge of spreadsheets, with experience of making use of their wider functionality, e.g. formulae, interrogation tools.
- Uses knowledge of customer needs to anticipate potential future changes to statistical products.
- 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 of a variety of analytical tools and techniques, including but not limited to SQL, Python, Excel, PowerBI, R.
- The post holder will have expert knowledge in at least one of the following four areas: Statistical modelling and techniques including coding on software packages (R, Python) or Business intelligence and visual analytics to develop and standardise sophisticated interactive presentations and visualisation (using PowerBI, Tableau etc) or
- Data linkage and analysis of new types of data including using analysis and subject matter knowledge to inform content requirements and data science using cutting edge technologies combined with data expertise to solve real-world problems (eg Machine Learning)
Desirable
- Able to exhibit knowledge of relevant legislation when working with public data.
- Knowledge of the techniques used for planning and executing testing throughout the software lifecycle.
- Knowledge of using two or more of these statistical techniques: analysis of variance, multiple regression, other multivariate techniques, stochastic processes, time series analysis, generalised linear model, hypothesis testing or index numbers.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to choose content and style to suit the audience, including large groups.
- Able to lead a team, work on own initiative as well as a member of a team, able to work across teams.
- Able to communicate complex subject matter effectively with both external and internal customers and colleagues to understand the work required and present or explain work completed.
- Able to manage a small team and prioritise own and staffs work in line with organisational priorities.
- Able to learn rapidly identify and apply the use of novel statistical packages to a high standard.
- Able to influence the design of initiatives to ensure that robust data collection is facilitated.
- Able to choose the appropriate analytical approaches for whole work streams.
- Builds strong relationships with customers and develops own reputation, as well as that of the team or Department.
- Builds the capability of others by sharing good practice with own business area and with other analytical colleagues.
- Able to communicate complex and technical concepts and issues to non-technical colleagues, customers and stakeholders
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Education to a Masters degree level in a numerate discipline, or an equivalent level of knowledge.
Desirable
- Government Statistician Group Membership.
Attributes
Essential
- Able to work flexibly within situations of ambiguity.
- Is self motivated, self aware and proactive.
- Commitment to and focus on quality and meeting standards.
- Fosters good working relationships and embraces diversity & inclusion.
- Committed to professional development.
- Able to influence and advise using clear communication of complex insights.
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.
- Experience of developing metrics and measures to monitor outcomes.
- Experience of line-managing teams of analytical professions and support their development in line with industry standards.
Desirable
- Experience of working in the public sector.
- 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.
- Expert knowledge and experience of databases including database interrogation tools.
- Expert knowledge of spreadsheets, with experience of making use of their wider functionality, e.g. formulae, interrogation tools.
- Uses knowledge of customer needs to anticipate potential future changes to statistical products.
- 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 of a variety of analytical tools and techniques, including but not limited to SQL, Python, Excel, PowerBI, R.
- The post holder will have expert knowledge in at least one of the following four areas: Statistical modelling and techniques including coding on software packages (R, Python) or Business intelligence and visual analytics to develop and standardise sophisticated interactive presentations and visualisation (using PowerBI, Tableau etc) or
- Data linkage and analysis of new types of data including using analysis and subject matter knowledge to inform content requirements and data science using cutting edge technologies combined with data expertise to solve real-world problems (eg Machine Learning)
Desirable
- Able to exhibit knowledge of relevant legislation when working with public data.
- Knowledge of the techniques used for planning and executing testing throughout the software lifecycle.
- Knowledge of using two or more of these statistical techniques: analysis of variance, multiple regression, other multivariate techniques, stochastic processes, time series analysis, generalised linear model, hypothesis testing or index numbers.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to choose content and style to suit the audience, including large groups.
- Able to lead a team, work on own initiative as well as a member of a team, able to work across teams.
- Able to communicate complex subject matter effectively with both external and internal customers and colleagues to understand the work required and present or explain work completed.
- Able to manage a small team and prioritise own and staffs work in line with organisational priorities.
- Able to learn rapidly identify and apply the use of novel statistical packages to a high standard.
- Able to influence the design of initiatives to ensure that robust data collection is facilitated.
- Able to choose the appropriate analytical approaches for whole work streams.
- Builds strong relationships with customers and develops own reputation, as well as that of the team or Department.
- Builds the capability of others by sharing good practice with own business area and with other analytical colleagues.
- Able to communicate complex and technical concepts and issues to non-technical colleagues, customers and stakeholders