Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and skilled individual to join our Planning and Performance Team as a Senior Performance Management Analyst & Service Improvement Data Manager.
In this pivotal role, you will lead the development and delivery of high-quality analysis and insight to support strategic planning, performance management, and service transformation across the Health Board. You will work closely with Divisions, analysts, and clinicians across the Health Board and the wider region to ensure data-driven decision-making is at the heart of our improvement efforts.
Your responsibilities will include coordinating analytical workstreams, developing advanced data models, and promoting innovative tools and technologies to support data acquisition, performance monitoring, and service improvement. Your insights will be essential in understanding how our services are performing and in shaping how we plan and manage change.
This role is key to ensuring safe, efficient, and resource-optimised healthcare services across Gwent. You will play a central part in building our performance and analytical capability and supporting a culture of continuous improvement.
Join us at a time of transformation and help us deliver a stronger, fairer, and safer healthcare system.
Main duties of the job
o To provide co-ordination and leadership insight about Performance, service change, transformation health, care, and the Health Board, including robust analytics surrounding all aspects of our Healthcare system.
o To develop actionable insights of system change and function as a lead a source of technical expertise for Divisions, Clinicians and Corporate Departments producing analytical and scenario-based assumptions to understand performance and planning.
o To support the translation of analytical findings into real-world processes and as such provide evidence for service redesign and evidence-based interventions.
o Lead on the day today relationship with operational managers and support the department managers and program team with addressing analytical questions and solutions.
o Model and analyse a variety of data, and make recommendations based on findings to improve operational, tactical, and strategic business decisions impacting on performance and operational decision.
o Develop and refine data visualisation systems to present analytical results. Lead on the development of Health board and regional planning and pathway dashboards.
o Make recommendations and determine impact of proposed strategic and operational changes using data-driven approaches, and communicate findings to their teams and respond tactfully to challenge of assumptions and results. This includes the Annual Planning Process.
About us
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opened in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
- Masters degree or equivalent relevant experience
- Substantial experience working at a senior level involving scientific research /data analysis and mathematical modelling
- Demonstrate knowledge of the current health system within Gwent, the aims and aspirations of the Health Board and current national performance objectives
- Knowledge of data standards and their application
- Equality and Diversity - knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda
Desirable
- Knowledge of the role of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Knowledge of health inequalities
Experience
Essential
- Understand the background to and aims of current performance objectives
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance at system level and acute
- Understanding of the principles of data for improvement and application
Desirable
- Experience in data warehousing experience
- Practical advanced experience or training in SQL
- Practical advanced experience or training in Python or R
Skills
Essential
- Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders
- Ability to liaise and work with lead analysts /relevant stakeholder across multiple organisations to ensure that the work programme is well communicated and delivers outputs, as expected
- Be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Excellent presentational skills for conveying complex concepts, be a competent translator of data
Desirable
- Be able to effectively lead training and development programmes for internal and external persons
Other
Essential
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
Desirable
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
- Masters degree or equivalent relevant experience
- Substantial experience working at a senior level involving scientific research /data analysis and mathematical modelling
- Demonstrate knowledge of the current health system within Gwent, the aims and aspirations of the Health Board and current national performance objectives
- Knowledge of data standards and their application
- Equality and Diversity - knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda
Desirable
- Knowledge of the role of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Knowledge of health inequalities
Experience
Essential
- Understand the background to and aims of current performance objectives
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance at system level and acute
- Understanding of the principles of data for improvement and application
Desirable
- Experience in data warehousing experience
- Practical advanced experience or training in SQL
- Practical advanced experience or training in Python or R
Skills
Essential
- Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders
- Ability to liaise and work with lead analysts /relevant stakeholder across multiple organisations to ensure that the work programme is well communicated and delivers outputs, as expected
- Be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Excellent presentational skills for conveying complex concepts, be a competent translator of data
Desirable
- Be able to effectively lead training and development programmes for internal and external persons
Other
Essential
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
Desirable
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards
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).
