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CITI Data Analyst - Improving Together
Closing date is 04 November 2025
Guy's and St Thomas' is committed to its GSTT 2030 strategy, aiming to deliver clinical excellence through better, faster, and fairer healthcare. To support this vision the ‘Improving Together’ programme launched to foster an empowered culture of continuous improvement across the organisation.
As the Analyst for Improving Together, you will be at the heart of our improvement journey. You’ll harness the power of data to drive change—building smart tools to monitor performance, creating SPC charts, and guiding teams in making data‑informed decisions.
You will teach and champion data for improvement approaches, helping teams understand impact and track progress.
You’ll also play a key role in building an improvement culture by supporting events and promoting success stories. From developing quality metrics to managing databases of good practice, you’ll help showcase the best of our improvement work both internally and externally.
The Improving Together team works collaboratively with a focus on reflection to adapt our approach, creating a supportive team environment. Joining the team will give you a chance to help us craft GSTT’s improvement journey and we are excited to welcome a diverse range of applicants, new skills and perspectives into the team.
The interview will follow an assessment centre format, including a series of exercises and a traditional interview. The full process will take approximately three hours with interview dates to be confirmed.
Main duties of the job
- Support data‑driven improvement across the Trust by leading analytical work and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with programme and Clinical Group teams to deliver impactful insights and build data capability.
- Lead data analysis and outcome evaluation using tools such as SQL, Power BI, and Excel.
- Develop metrics and frameworks to assess improvement initiatives.
- Support capability‑building programmes and mentor staff.
- Create tools and collaterals for wider organisational use.
- Promote best practice in data analysis and reporting.
- Build internal and external data networks.
- Plan and deliver programme metrics, baselines, and targets.
- Extract, analyse, and present complex data sets clearly.
- Ensure Information Governance compliance.
- Represent CITI in forums and stakeholder events.
About us
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is home to CITI – the Centre for Innovation, Transformation and Improvement at Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. We’re the largest NHS Trust in the country, with a unique range of services from community to quaternary care, and a geography that extends from Southeast to Northwest London. We are a national leader in research and development and have an international reputation for clinical excellence. The foundation and further development of this status is dependent upon our ability to innovate, transform and improve our services. CITI is our answer to that challenge, aiming to make our services fit for the future by drawing on best practice, in‑house expertise and the latest technological developments from industry.
CITI builds on industry best practice in taking innovation from concept to practice. It aims to foster a culture of innovation and improvement throughout the Trust, and acts as the intellectual home of our core change methodologies.
CITI aims to improve the adoption of new clinical technologies with an agile operational model, delivering a data‑driven approach to evaluating performance of novel technologies, creating a sustainable culture of innovation in clinical and operational workforce, and to build enduring partnerships with academia, industry, investors, our communities and other key stakeholders.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
- Graduate with high level of numeracy.
- Master’s degree in informatics‑related discipline, or equivalent experience within the area of information management/data for improvement.
- Evidence of continuing professional development in data science.
- Postgraduate qualification or training in Quality Improvement, Project Management, or related field.
Experience
- Experience required in a post with an analytical component.
- Experience of working with Statistical Process Control charts.
- Demonstrable experience of supporting data specifically for QI/CI projects.
- Experience of developing network relationships and working collaboratively effectively.
- Experience of staff leadership and management across programme and / or operational teams.
- Knowledge of NHS data including its structure, definitions and relationship to clinical activity recording.
- Experience of service improvement and transformation project delivery.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- High proficiency in the use of Excel as both an analytics tool, automation tool and management database.
- In depth understanding of data for improvement and the application of SPC.
- Analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of complex statistical and numerical data.
- Demonstrable ability to interpret meaning of highly complex numeric reports and explain concepts to a large audience and make recommendations with little supervision or oversight.
- Use analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of complex statistical and numerical data.
- Good organisational skills with a demonstrable ability to balance competing demands and priorities.
- Delivery of analytics, improvement, programme and project management training; supporting, mentoring and modelling best practice to both CITI staff and external stakeholders and partners.
- Well organised, methodical and analytical.
- Full understanding of confidentiality and data protection issues.
- Ability to plan and organise a varied workload effectively to meet deadlines in the short and long term and react to changing demands and work priorities.
- Member of the NHS Analyst X network and familiar with the plot the dots movement.
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.
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