Job summary
Created in 2012 to provide support to Greater Manchester, the Transformation Unit has expanded and now has a significant client base throughout the Northwest, as well as nationally. The Transformation Unit is hosted by the Midlands and Lancashire Clinical Support Unit.
The Transformation Unit works with clients to ensure that change is delivered within a strategic context and drives forward new thinking in how public services can be delivered, to be more effective, more efficient and achieve better outcomes for patients and service users.
TU Values
People Focused - We have those who access and deliver health and care at the heart of all we do. We recognise, acknowledge and celebrate all contributions.
Driven - We respectfully challenge convention, ourselves and each other to excel. We have the strength, willingness and determination to make things happen.
Integrity - We act professionally with compassion, respect, responsibility and honesty. We do what is right and fair, not what is easy. We are accountable for all of our actions.
Empower - We actively support, develop and care for all our people. We value and ensure our health and wellbeing is our priority.
Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans, and military families bring to our business and would encourage people from the armed forces community to apply for our vacancies.
Main duties of the job
What is the role?
We are looking to recruit an ambitious and experienced individual to take up the post of Transformation Consultant Analyst.
Amongst the role's key responsibilities are to:
- Understand the context within which our customers operate and assist them to identify and structure the problems they need to address. You will have a good knowledge of the NHS, its organisational structures and operational processes and an appetite to learn more.
- Interpret and explain the results of analyses to senior managers and clinicians, conveying both the key findings and the critical uncertainties that remain. Having conducted your analysis you will be keen to share it, highlighting the significance of your results to those that can make use of them.
- Provide advanced analytical services to strategic healthcare projects, programmes and Business Cases in the form of prospective service modelling, retrospective analyses, evaluations and descriptive analyses.
The post holder's prime responsibility is to conduct highly complex analysis of diverse data with a strong emphasis on supporting the organisation to deliver its strategic vision.
About us
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is one of the biggest and best-performing commissioning support units in the country, with among the highest levels of staff and customer satisfaction. We work together as a team of over 1,600 expert staff based across the Midlands and North West to make a difference - for our customers, patients and communities.
Offering a full range of professional services to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), hospital trusts, local authorities, integrated care systems (ICSs) and other public bodies\ across the country, our NHS values underpin everything we do.
The Transformation Unit is a fundamentally different organisation to many other NHS services. We provide tailored Internal Consultancy services, by the NHS for the NHS, in a more cost-effective way than other commercial consultancies.
In return, we provide a supportive environment in which to learn and develop, with the opportunity to further your skills and career within an exciting and evolving environment.
Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of benefits including flexible & agile working arrangements, pension scheme and generous annual leave allowance.
With our training schemes and support networks, you will be empowered to play a leading role in the future of healthcare, whatever your specialism or interest. And as a member of NHS staff you will receive plenty of discounts too.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary
Technical skills, communication skills & relevant experience
- Considerable experience in relevant / similar environment.
- Recognised as having technical expertise; devises technical approaches to meet clients needs; provides technical oversight.
- Able to identify data requirements, define analysis requirements, design data gathering and desired outputs.
- Able to assess the robustness of data and ensure data analysis for projects and programmes is sufficient and will pass scrutiny.
- Able to perform complex analyses on data relevant to projects and programmes, including presenting data in a variety of formats, bar charts, statistical process control charts.
- Responsible for tracking data, including risks and issues, continuously to quickly resolve failures to meet project requirements and act accordingly to inform team members as appropriate.
Business development & client management
- Supports development of new services / markets primarily through producing successful proposals / working up project scope with clients.
- Proactively suggests ways of promoting Transformation Units work to a wider audience.
Project & programme management
- Manages medium / large projects: day to day point of contact for clients; coordinates work of others; ensures project delivery within budget / time / quality requirements.
- Directs / oversees small / contained projects.
- Leads drafting of outputs and oversees contributions of others.
Partnership working
- Must be able to work collaboratively as part of a team whilst managing own workload.
- To actively seek and develop positive working relationships within the Transformation Unit team.
- To maintain and promote positive relationships with clinicians and others engaged in projects and programmes.
Research, Development and Audit
- To take responsibility for own learning and development including identifying any areas of learning that might add to the knowledge base of the wider team.
- Undertakes research to support projects and programmes.
Responsibilities for Human Resources
- To provide advice and guidance to more junior members of the team.
- To deputise for the Managing Consultant as appropriate and as directed by line management.
Responsibility for Patient Care (including monitoring, diagnostics + investigations)
- To support projects and programmes that will improve patient care and outcomes.
Responsibility for Policy/ Service Development
- To identify areas for improvement in methodologies, tools, templates and documentation used by the Transformation Unit.
- To contribute to the development of tools, templates, documentation methodologies and approaches used by the Transformation Unit.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary
Technical skills, communication skills & relevant experience
- Considerable experience in relevant / similar environment.
- Recognised as having technical expertise; devises technical approaches to meet clients needs; provides technical oversight.
- Able to identify data requirements, define analysis requirements, design data gathering and desired outputs.
- Able to assess the robustness of data and ensure data analysis for projects and programmes is sufficient and will pass scrutiny.
- Able to perform complex analyses on data relevant to projects and programmes, including presenting data in a variety of formats, bar charts, statistical process control charts.
- Responsible for tracking data, including risks and issues, continuously to quickly resolve failures to meet project requirements and act accordingly to inform team members as appropriate.
Business development & client management
- Supports development of new services / markets primarily through producing successful proposals / working up project scope with clients.
- Proactively suggests ways of promoting Transformation Units work to a wider audience.
Project & programme management
- Manages medium / large projects: day to day point of contact for clients; coordinates work of others; ensures project delivery within budget / time / quality requirements.
- Directs / oversees small / contained projects.
- Leads drafting of outputs and oversees contributions of others.
Partnership working
- Must be able to work collaboratively as part of a team whilst managing own workload.
- To actively seek and develop positive working relationships within the Transformation Unit team.
- To maintain and promote positive relationships with clinicians and others engaged in projects and programmes.
Research, Development and Audit
- To take responsibility for own learning and development including identifying any areas of learning that might add to the knowledge base of the wider team.
- Undertakes research to support projects and programmes.
Responsibilities for Human Resources
- To provide advice and guidance to more junior members of the team.
- To deputise for the Managing Consultant as appropriate and as directed by line management.
Responsibility for Patient Care (including monitoring, diagnostics + investigations)
- To support projects and programmes that will improve patient care and outcomes.
Responsibility for Policy/ Service Development
- To identify areas for improvement in methodologies, tools, templates and documentation used by the Transformation Unit.
- To contribute to the development of tools, templates, documentation methodologies and approaches used by the Transformation Unit.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First degree 2.1 or equivalent qualification or experience
- Evidence of relevant Professional Development
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Essential
- Broad understanding of the NHS.
- Ability to manage a diverse workload and meet set deadlines
- Excellent written communication skills - experience of contributing to briefing papers and documents for a senior audience.
- Highly developed analytical and interpretation skills.
- Significant experience of using data and conducting complex analysis and an ability to apply this to healthcare settings.
- Experience of managing the communication of the results of complex analysis.
- Experience of applying techniques from specialist analytical disciplines in healthcare settings for example as; activity modelling, business intelligence, population health, econometrics, statistical modelling and statistical process control.
- Experience of using specialist analytical and data management software (e.g. R, Python, Tableau, QGIS, T-SQL).
- Proficient in the use of spreadsheet software.
- Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
- Highly organised, flexible and resilient - able to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First degree 2.1 or equivalent qualification or experience
- Evidence of relevant Professional Development
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Essential
- Broad understanding of the NHS.
- Ability to manage a diverse workload and meet set deadlines
- Excellent written communication skills - experience of contributing to briefing papers and documents for a senior audience.
- Highly developed analytical and interpretation skills.
- Significant experience of using data and conducting complex analysis and an ability to apply this to healthcare settings.
- Experience of managing the communication of the results of complex analysis.
- Experience of applying techniques from specialist analytical disciplines in healthcare settings for example as; activity modelling, business intelligence, population health, econometrics, statistical modelling and statistical process control.
- Experience of using specialist analytical and data management software (e.g. R, Python, Tableau, QGIS, T-SQL).
- Proficient in the use of spreadsheet software.
- Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
- Highly organised, flexible and resilient - able to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
Additional information
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).
