Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Principal Data Analyst to work within a dynamic, supportive and multi-disciplinary team.

The successful post holder will play a key role in providing the necessary analysis to inform the development and improvement of clinical care, and the resulting operational and financial impact. They will work specifically in the area of Value Based HealthCare ensuring that programme receives robust informatics and analytical support.

The applicant will be working closely with the VBHC team and operational and clinical colleagues to provide a robust and proactive information and analytics service. The analysis provided will be vital in targeting efforts at the right areas to deliver the greatest service improvements and therefore a close working relationship with the clinical teams will be needed to understand how the different services operate.

The post holder will establish and maintain a close working relationship with the clinical and operational teams within a Clinical Board and members of the Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse teams.

A collaborative approach with clinical and operational colleagues will be a key part of delivering successful analytics to drive change and improve outcomes, efficiency and satisfaction of both patients and staff.

The post holder will ensure a good working relationship with wider Digital service colleagues.

Main duties of the job

This opportunity is for a motivated and proactive individual to help us build a Value Tracker tool which aggregates data from across health system to demonstrate impact of change projects. The ambition is to utilise PowerBI to provide an accessible and sustainable system capable of visualising the data and providing useful insights to assess and plan future developments.

This post is fixed term/secondment post for 8 months due to funding

If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post

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

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Boardis one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.

Our mission is"Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together",and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable 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

Operational Duties:

The post holder will have a wide and varied role which will include the following operational duties:

To ensure the timely delivery of reporting, data analysis and provision of data to support the ongoing operations and strategic direction of the organisation.

Reporting to Value in Health team the post holder will ensure the quality assurance of data requests, analysis and pieces of development. This will involve using a mix of SQL, IBM Cognos Analytics, Power BI and Signals from Noise.

Assist colleagues across the Clinical Board in gaining a greater understanding of the data that is key to driving improvement in their service

The post holder will have the opportunity to complete ad-hoc exploratory analysis to try and identify further opportunities to be discussed with operational and clinical colleagues

Attend meetings to discuss the analytical requirements and options with operational and clinical colleagues

Analyse, understand and interpret data from multiple sources in a way that can be presented to non-analytical colleagues.

Visualise data in a creative and engaging way into self-service products for use by operational and clinical colleagues.

Automate routine requests that fall within the Clinical Board responsibilities

Contribute to demand and capacity modelling and other predictive analytics requests

Ensure that all work adheres to Information Governance standards and Health Board values

Staff Management and Supervision

The post holder may be required to coach or train other members of the Clinical Board or junior colleagues and may be required to deliver training.

Service Improvement

The post holder will work closely with Improvement and Innovation colleagues to ensure the use of data and available systems are used to maximum benefit. This may include modelling data or building dimensions and measures for use in service improvement projects.

Financial & Resources

The post holder will be responsible, as part of the team for the effective use of resources and will be required to:

Deliver against organisational objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines.

Support and inform teams on the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementing, evaluating and delivery of plans by providing sophisticated, high quality information and analysis

Continually strive for delivering improved outcomes, value for money and greater efficiency

Research & Development

The post holder will be expected to maintain and extend their knowledge and expertise, learning new skills as required and staying abreast of technological developments and researching current best practice.

A commitment to best practice and innovation will form part of the ethos of the team and the post holder will be expected to participate in a culture of active investigation into better ways of working and service provision.

The post holder may be required to research user experience and analyse the results to support a process of continual improvement to give benefit to users and the trust as a whole.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Graduate with high level of numeracy. Educated to Master's Degree level or equivalent experience in data analysis

Experience

Essential

Ability to collate, analyse and interpret complex datasets with the proven ability to explain complex analytical methods to non-analytical people Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders Experience of using data to identify issues and to look for opportunities - drawing conclusions from robust evidence based analysis. Extensive experience of analysing complex datasets effectively in a variety of settings. Experience of working with and linking data contained within different data sources. Experience of presenting to audiences of all sizes and at levels

Desirable

Experience of working in the NHS in a related role.

Skills

Essential

Robust and systematic problem solving skills Ability to rapidly learn new software packages SQL (intermediate and advanced) Power BI Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to adapt style and approach for a wide range of audiences and situations. Excellent presentation skills Excellent listening skills: able to gather and incorporate technical and non-technical requirements into clear and detailed specifications. The ability to 'think outside the box', challenge existing ways of working and cultures, and drive out innovative solutions. Flexible, both in terms of working patterns and ability to multi-task. Ability to work autonomously on a day to day basis and meet with manager at regular intervals to discuss progress, complex issues or areas of concern.

Desirable

IBM Cognos Analytics Python

Special knowledge

Essential

Business Intelligence systems use in particular in the deployment of Self Service tools Power BI

Personal qualities

Essential

Tenacious with excellent attention to detail. Team player with good interpersonal skills.

Other

Essential

Ability to travel in a timely manner

Desirable

Ability to speak Welsh