Data Insights Senior Analyst

Job summary

As Healthcare becomes more complex, there is a growing need to understand and interpret large data sets to provide insight and support for people to make the best informed decisions.

The BI, Insight and Analytics team is at the forefront of this. You will work with your colleagues to drive our analytical capabilities to supporting population health management as well as performance and demand reporting to all business areas.

The Senior Data Insights Analyst will support the organisation to be intelligence led based on quality analytics to enable effective health and care planning, resource allocation and decision making. The role will work with other senior analysts and data scientists to deliver analyses to provide evidence for strategic and operational decisions supporting the Norfolk & Waveney ICB and wider ICS in shaping healthcare.

Priorities include improving system flow and integration, ensuring the right service is in the right place at the right time for people and making the best use of resources to improve outcomes and reduce the impact of inequalities.

The post holder will have an understanding of advanced analytical and statistical methods together with comprehensive knowledge of visualisation methods and techniques. They will have good working knowledge of relevant analytical and data extraction/processing tools including, but not limited to, SQL, R, Python and Power BI.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a senior data insights analyst with skills in Excel, Power BI, R/ Python and collaborative working. A team player who can learn from and teach others, working as part of the BI, Insight and Analytics team.

The post holder will:

• Assist in the design, production, and maintenance of reports and analytical products, including but not limited to reproducible analytical pipelines
• Be expected to suggest ways to improve analysis and dashboard implementation
• Work with others in the team to identify and structure problems, to iteratively produce analytical outputs to meet requirements
• Interpret and explain analysis to both analysts and non-analysts within the ICS
• Assist with the creation and delivery of training internally as well as where appropriate externally
• Work to produce quality output, including clean, readable code, and documentation, and promote and disseminate the work of the team accordingly
• Proactively learn and share new analytical methods and ideas to ensure that the team can work across a range of our projects, the post holder will be fully supported to learn throughout their time in the team
• Be a team player, sharing skills and knowledge, contributing to skills development, and learning from others in the wider analytical community

About us

You will be working in a small centralised team supporting the Integrated care Board (ICB) but with close collaboration with all our Health and social care partners across Norfolk and Suffolk.

The work is varied, dynamic and interesting, with an excellent team environment. The team now largely work from home with occasional requirements to attend the office, but agile working is available. There are flexible working opportunities.