Analyst – Business Intelligence & Value Based Health Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Overview

The role will be an integral part of the wider Finance Team enabling the delivery of the wider financial position of the organisation by supporting the service lead with provision of analysis (using multiple sources of information), highlighting variation and opportunities through engagement of key stakeholders to develop, improve and disseminate business intelligence.

The Analyst will support both undertaking and continually developing the annual costing process, benchmarking, data collation and validation to support the value agenda linked to Recovery & Renewal across all areas of healthcare delivery and business intelligence provision. Support the service lead in delivering an effective business intelligence solution to enhance both data analytics and service modelling.

The post holder will also need to acquire or develop other data sources to support these duties, including both the input from and output to, other clinical and data management systems across the Health Board.

Support the service lead in managing the Costing IT infrastructure and developing and maintaining a sustainable plan for costing IT, to ensure an efficient, effective and resilient service is provided across PTHB.

Responsibilities and Duties

Create objective reports from internal and external sources that inform evaluation of PTHB services and financial performance. Understanding, exploring and clarifying the linkages between financial, informatics and workforce data.

Develop and utilise benchmarking models that compare the Health Boards performance internally, with the best in the UK or worldwide where appropriate and provide sufficient analysis to support performance improvement. This will include the design and maintenance of spreadsheets, databases and bespoke systems.

Work with financial, clinical and operational teams to plot and then model activities along a clinical pathway, to inform Value Based Health Care and service improvement debates, both within the Health Board and more widely across NHS Wales.

Exercise judgement involving a myriad of facts and figures and situations that require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options. In doing so this will include the exploration of new areas where there may be no or few precedents to rely upon.

Recognising patterns and inter-relationships in disparate sources of data, to model, interpret and appropriately advise recipients.

A pro-active approach to finding and filtering the multitude of available data sources to both identify and react to the key impacts of new initiatives including, where appropriate, leading upon the presentation and explanation to inform service change actions locally.

Develop ad-hoc reports and support the initiation of corrective action in conjunction with budget holders and the Business Partnering Finance team for a Division/Locality/Directorate.

Work with budget holders, clinicians and other staff to analyse and understand the links between financial and service issues including the use of business intelligence (e.g., benchmarking, time driven activity-based costing, patient-level costing) and highlight anomalies. This will include receiving complex, sensitive and often contentious information. Displaying a high level of understanding of both the data and models, as well as their construction and express this understanding in laymans terms to up-skill both finance and non-finance managers on the use of business intelligence, costing methodologies and detailed, intelligent processing mapping.

Maintain and enhance the quality and accuracy of information and systems through working with clinical and service managers, other finance staff to improve the range, quality and timeliness of finance and service performance information. Understand and communicate to budget holders the current organisational and financial drivers.

Assist in developing models to support new ways of working and future service changes. Support the whole health system by aiding the implementation of finance systems to support modern, integrated clinical services and provide best value in the use of resources available across the Community.

Work closely with key decision makers to contribute to a long-term strategy that ensures financial sustainability in the Health Board. Work independently, to plan and prioritise own work within broad parameters, ensure effective support to all areas and delivery of key objectives and deadlines. In doing so balancing routine work against internally or externally agreed deadlines, with progressing medium-term objectives and responding to ad-hoc queries.

Through the application of project management principles ensure clarity of required tasks, responsibilities, progress against timescales and risks, in delivering the agreed objectives for this role. Maintaining an effective working relationship with other members of Finance, other officers of the Health Board and outside organisations to deliver a professional service.

Participate in the development and implementation of annual objectives in line with Health Board objectives and the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework.

Be proactive and flexible to provide financial support as required to PTHB wide work streams including cross divisional/locality working.

Ensure full compliance with all financial, information governance and corporate governance procedures issued by PTHB.

Undertake audit as necessary for own work.

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.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject (e.g. Accountancy/financial discipline, Information Technology, Statistics, Economics or similar) or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar leve
• Significant analytical and logical abilities in working with complex data
• Advanced level of Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & Word
• Advanced SQL/Python skills
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

• Project Management experience
• MS Data qualifications
• Previous experience of the NHS Finance/Information Technology/Analytics
• AAT qualification or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary environment
• Experience of developing business intelligence products in a variety of mediums
• Experience of communicating effectively and confidently both verbally and in writing, across multiple stakeholders
• Extensive experience of using spreadsheet packages

Desirable

• Experience of costing and value analysis
• Demonstrated ability to critically review, appraise, and amend business processes

Skills and Attributes

Essential

• Well-developed communication skills
• Strong numerical and analytical skills
• Ability to analyse and interpret wide range of financial and non-financial data
• Ability to deliver to tight timescales and under pressure
• Provide expert and professional advice to finance team and its customers
• Ability to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation but verbally and in written form
• Innovative with an ability to look for alternative ways of undertaking tasks

Desirable

• Ability to explain complex Business Intelligence and data to non-financial people
• Ability to represent the organisation at All Wales meetings
• Experience in preparation of papers for reporting to all levels within the organisation
• Ability to work autonomously

Other

Essential

• Able to work hours flexibly
• Ability to travel within geographical area

Desirable

• Ability to understand/speak basic Welsh

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Powys Teaching Health Board

Address

Finance Department - Monnow Ward

Bronllys Hospital

Bronllys

LD3 0LY

Employer's website

https://pthb.nhs.wales/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)