Job summary
As a Lead Policy and Data Analyst in the NHS Confederations strategic policy team, you will lead the NHS Confederations data function, working closely with colleagues to provide key statistics and analyse data, presenting it for internal and external audiences.
Main duties of the job
The work will range from rapid data analysis to understand key issues, such as the drivers of NHS growing elective backlog, to in-depth exploration of statistics to better illustrate, for instance, the extent of inequality in health outcomes across the country.
Your work will form the basis for reports and government consultations, support fact checking of qualitative feedback from the sector, and producing accessible visualisations.
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Are inquisitive and creative, interested in seriously understanding issues affecting healthcare in the UK and working to solve them with data.
- Have strong problem-solving abilities and experience with using health data analysis to identify patterns and trends and generate insights.
- Are passionate about exploring the big questions the NHS and health sector are asking, for instance how the service can improve its productivity, improve patient flow and bring down waiting lists.
- Are able to grasp complex issues quickly and to interpret and present your findings rapidly, for a variety of audiences, using data visualisation techniques.
- Have excellent communication skills, evidence of an ability to build strong personal relationships and effective networks and are able to manage competing priorities.
About us
The NHS Confederation is recruiting a Senior Policy and Data Analyst to join a high-performing team of policy, public affairs and analysis professionals in an influential and high-profile organisation representing the health sector nationally.
The NHS Confederation is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive environment for our staff. A place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of inclusive employment policies including family friendly policies and flexible working and we have range of channels to support staff from different backgrounds including our staff networks and a staff forum.
The NHS Confederation is committed to being a flexible employer. We understand the value and benefit to our employees being able to work flexibly and our agile working principles are designed to empower our people to work with optimal flexibility and minimal constraints to support a work life balance and take care of employee health and wellbeing.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The postholder will take an inquisitive and creative approach to interrogating data and use it to represent activity and performance in the NHS, uncover issues and develop solutions to improve healthcare for UK citizens.
This includes working closely with senior colleagues such as the Director of the Acute Network.
The post-holder will also manage longer term deep dive projects alongside reactive work related to emerging health policy news and scheduled statistical releases.
They will have the chance to develop both their analytical and policy skills, working with policy professionals from the NHS Confederation on a daily basis.
Specific accountabilities include:
- Working with policy colleagues and networks to shape and supplement outputs with data, including web articles, reports, webinars and consultation responses, and help influence decision makers using robust evidence.
- Leading on developments related to NHS data, including:
-Monitoring the NHS progress against key performance indicators, identifying (and forecasting) key trends, and communicating this clearly to members and the organisation.
-Providing rapid data analysis of regular NHS statistics releases and supporting the development of the Confederations media narrative.
-Maintaining a watching brief over health policy news stories to be able to reactively rebut or corroborate assertions in the media around statistics.
- Leading statistical elements of deep dives and research projects, generating thought leadership and publishing data-driven articles to develop a portfolio of content on the Confederations website.
- Supporting the organisations membership function with surveys of NHS leaders, including the design and development of research as well as analysis of the findings.
- Line managing a more junior data analyst and maintaining oversight and of responsibility for the workload across the data function.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The postholder will take an inquisitive and creative approach to interrogating data and use it to represent activity and performance in the NHS, uncover issues and develop solutions to improve healthcare for UK citizens.
This includes working closely with senior colleagues such as the Director of the Acute Network.
The post-holder will also manage longer term deep dive projects alongside reactive work related to emerging health policy news and scheduled statistical releases.
They will have the chance to develop both their analytical and policy skills, working with policy professionals from the NHS Confederation on a daily basis.
Specific accountabilities include:
- Working with policy colleagues and networks to shape and supplement outputs with data, including web articles, reports, webinars and consultation responses, and help influence decision makers using robust evidence.
- Leading on developments related to NHS data, including:
-Monitoring the NHS progress against key performance indicators, identifying (and forecasting) key trends, and communicating this clearly to members and the organisation.
-Providing rapid data analysis of regular NHS statistics releases and supporting the development of the Confederations media narrative.
-Maintaining a watching brief over health policy news stories to be able to reactively rebut or corroborate assertions in the media around statistics.
- Leading statistical elements of deep dives and research projects, generating thought leadership and publishing data-driven articles to develop a portfolio of content on the Confederations website.
- Supporting the organisations membership function with surveys of NHS leaders, including the design and development of research as well as analysis of the findings.
- Line managing a more junior data analyst and maintaining oversight and of responsibility for the workload across the data function.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Understanding of the top challenges facing the UK healthcare system.
- Ability to analyse, present and communicate complex data in a simple way to internal and external stakeholders, including using presentations and data visualisations to tell a story.
- Knowledge of various methodologies and experience designing and delivering research projects, as well as finding creative solutions to problems and using initiative.
- Strong proficiency and experience in Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets.
- Experience of project management and evidence of working at pace, balancing work that has varying deadlines from different people and teams.
- Ability to quickly grasp new concepts, with evidence.
Desirable
- A knowledge of NHS data sets and where to find them, or examples of previous experience researching and sourcing data.
- Experience of data visualisation tools such as PowerBI, Tableau or other statistical packages, and creating data dashboards.
- A history of designing and implementing surveys (using platforms such as Qualtrics) and gaining quantitative and qualitative insight from them.
- Experience of using Customer Relationship Management systems such as Microsoft Dynamics, or examples of working with qualitative data alongside quantitative data.
- Examples of an interest in UK healthcare policy, potentially including previous experience.
- Experience of managing a junior colleague.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Understanding of the top challenges facing the UK healthcare system.
- Ability to analyse, present and communicate complex data in a simple way to internal and external stakeholders, including using presentations and data visualisations to tell a story.
- Knowledge of various methodologies and experience designing and delivering research projects, as well as finding creative solutions to problems and using initiative.
- Strong proficiency and experience in Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets.
- Experience of project management and evidence of working at pace, balancing work that has varying deadlines from different people and teams.
- Ability to quickly grasp new concepts, with evidence.
Desirable
- A knowledge of NHS data sets and where to find them, or examples of previous experience researching and sourcing data.
- Experience of data visualisation tools such as PowerBI, Tableau or other statistical packages, and creating data dashboards.
- A history of designing and implementing surveys (using platforms such as Qualtrics) and gaining quantitative and qualitative insight from them.
- Experience of using Customer Relationship Management systems such as Microsoft Dynamics, or examples of working with qualitative data alongside quantitative data.
- Examples of an interest in UK healthcare policy, potentially including previous experience.
- Experience of managing a junior colleague.
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.