Band 7 - Senior Divisional (Surgery) and CPG Analyst, Corporate

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The role involves managing and delivering high-quality analytics for the Surgery division, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of complex data, particularly theatre data.
• You will oversee the integration of CPG analytics into divisional reporting, supporting pathway analysis and decision-making.
• Collaboration with clinical, operational, and divisional stakeholders is key, providing data-driven insights to support improvements.
• You will ensure compliance with reporting standards, meeting audit requirements, and present complex data in clear formats to non-technical stakeholders.
• Additionally, you will identify trends and risks to support divisional strategies, while continuously enhancing the BI team's analytical tools and processes.
• You will also act as the primary contact for all analytics queries within the Surgery division and relevant CPG programs.

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria

• Graduate or equivalent qualification or experience

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of further learning.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• High level complex statistical analysis skills, including time trends, standardisation and benchmarking
• High level of database skills, including SQL/Visual Basic code, relational database design, querying, and reporting functions
• High level of software skills, including Excel statistical functions, pivot tables, complex linkages, referential look-up and algorithm writing
• Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office suite.
• Comprehensive understanding the of Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act.
• Technical knowledge sufficient to work closely with technical staff.
• Good understanding of the importance of data quality in the business process.
• Understanding of the NHS commissioning process.

Desirable criteria

• Local and National IM&T strategies.
• NHS Guidance and Legislation.
• Proven track record of project management.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in a senior of information analysis role.
• Ability to work effectively with Clinicians and Board level executives
• Ability to work effectively with senior professional staff.
• Track record of problem solving and innovation
• Understanding of data flows within the NHS

Desirable criteria

• Experience of implementing successful projects
• Experience of training and supervising staff in an information environment

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute healthcare services to a core catchment population of approximately half a million people living in west Hertfordshire and the surrounding area. The Trust also provides a range of more specialist services to a wider population, serving residents of North London, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and East Hertfordshire.

As an employer of nearly 6,000 people the Trust is one of the biggest employers in the area and sees nearly a million patients each year.

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