Senior Analyst

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King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Senior Analyst Post for the Department of Sexual Health & HIV.

The Senior Analyst post will be responsible for delivering and developing the public health data requirement for the Department of Sexual Health & HIV within the EPIC system for Denmark Hill and Beckenham Beacon. These requirements are for submission of mandatory public health surveillance data, in addition NHSE data requirements and data required for the Integrated Sexual Health tariff.

The post holder will work closely with the Trust Business Intelligence team to develop, monitor and manage commissioning dashboards and reports to support the Trust and departmental strategic and transformational targets.

The post holder will be based at Denmark Hill but will hold responsibility for core information across Denmark Hill and Beckenham Beacon sites.

Main duties of the job
• The post holder to work closely with the departmental operational and clinical teams and the Trust Business Intelligence Unit (BIU) in the provision of information and analysis
• To lead on core information requirements which support the organisation's performance objectives and strategic direction.

To ensure robust information governance systems are in place and the service is reporting to mandatory national datasets
• Will take the lead for individual projects & work streams within the department and hold responsibility for their delivery.

Working for our organisation

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Information system and Data Management
• To be a lead contact in addressing the Trust and departmental operational teams' on analytical and reporting requirements, and advising on complex analysis requirements and reporting.
• To gain a working knowledge of the Department of Sexual Health & HIV and its services, utilising your existent or acquired understanding of operational business to advise on information requirements, statutory and mandatory reporting and new measurements where appropriate.
• To take responsibility for the preparation and submission of the various data reports required by the sexual health and HIV departments
• To support discussion with commissioners' regular analysis of GUMCAD, CTAD, HARS and SRHAD data to enable informed commissioning decisions relating to ISHS attendances, activity and STI diagnosis and contraceptive usage trends. To inform the EPIC team to make any necessary changes to IT systems as new information standards are published.
• To play a pivotal role, in conjunction with the BUI and senior colleagues, in the development of new ways of presenting and visualising data to increase accessibility and immediacy to clinical and managerial colleagues within the Trust.
• To develop, monitor and manage commissioning dashboards and reports to support the Trust and departmental strategic and transformational targets and implementation across the services in Denmark Hill and Beckenham Beacon.

Operational Management
• To be a senior member of the department in supporting and advising both the BIU team and non-technical staff outside of the department, on complex and routine ad-hoc reporting for the trust. Leading on key areas of reporting, both internal and external (statutory).

To work with key service staff to develop knowledge of EPIC and their use by operational and clinical teams.

Participating in regular process review, feedback and systems development meetings within the BIU, ITCS team and with external stakeholders; Being a link person between the teams.

To ensure the Department meets its regular reporting responsibilities within NHSE and UKHSA, and activity data is accurately coded and uploaded to the Integrated Sexual Health Tariff (Pathway Analytics) grouper.
• To attend, where required, operational and clinical performance management meetings, including external commissioning performance meetings.

To work with the operational and clinical team in facilitating the expansion of the Trust's use of clinical, benchmarking and performance data; and to be a pro-active user of benchmarking systems to inform current performance and future target-setting.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree in mathematics, computing or other discipline with a large numeracy component

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Excellent data presentation skills, written, graphical and verbal
• Knowledge of the NHS data model including the Inpatient, Outpatient and RTT/PTL models
• The post holder requires a very high level of numeracy
• Substantial knowledge gained through analytical experience in Information Management within the NHS
• Skilled in using data query tools, spreadsheets and databases

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of how NHS information can be used to drive performance management at both care group and trust level

Skills and Competencies

Essential criteria

• An ability to handle diverse information requests and analyse options with a non-technical audience.
• Able to retrieve and process data from a variety of systems, understand the data structures within the systems and join extracted data sets into uniform outputs.
• An ability to interpret and apply central guidance and policies to departmental systems and reporting structures

Communication

Essential criteria

• Interpret requirements and present reports that can be understood by a wide audience.
• Utilises interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships with staff at all levels.
• Interpret requirements and present reports that can be understood by a wide audience.

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• All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
• Please note that the closing date is given as a guide. On occasion, we might close a vacancy early due to a high number of applications being received. You are advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• B7 Senior Analyst (PDF, 328.4KB)
• Denmark Hill Site Map (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Princess Royal (PRUH) Site map (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Visa and Sponsorship Information (PDF, 352.6KB)