Senior Data 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£1.8 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.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time Senior Data Analyst to join sexual health and HIV.

We are seeking a self-motivated individual who is able to efficiently manage their time and workload. They should have excellent communication, IT and analytic skills. Ability to manage their own workload to meet deadlines in a busy environment with many demands on their time is essential.

The successful candidate will be required to work on-site at Denmark Hill and will also be expected to travel to Beckenham Beacon on a regular basis.

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

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

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 BIU 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.

Through own knowledge of SQL, to accurately script and report on datasets and support development of analysts' scripting skills.

To manage your own workload of reporting requirements to agreed timetables and plan core tasks with colleagues and, through managing the workloads, ensure delivery of collaborative or work stream related projects.

To share knowledge and develop Business Intelligence Analysts' own knowledge of activity datasets, informatics, SQL scripting and data interrogation.

To provide timely and accurate reporting to enable the Trust's and commissioning performance management framework to be implemented, using central and local data sources as required.

To scrutinise data and proactively report on changes in trends or patterns, particularly focusing on defined key performance indicators.

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 BIU 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.

Through own knowledge of SQL, to accurately script and report on datasets and support development of analysts' scripting skills.
To manage your own workload of reporting requirements to agreed timetables and plan core tasks with colleagues and, through managing the workloads, ensure delivery of collaborative or work stream related projects.

To share knowledge and develop Business Intelligence Analysts' own knowledge of activity datasets, informatics, SQL scripting and data interrogation.

To provide timely and accurate reporting to enable the Trust's and commissioning performance management framework to be implemented, using central and local data sources as required.
To scrutinise data and proactively report on changes in trends or patterns, particularly focusing on defined key performance indicators.

To develop, monitor and manage commissioning dashboards and reports to support the Trust and departmental strategic and transformational targets and implementation across the services.

Person specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• Excellent data presentation skills, written, graphical and verbal
• Experience working with colleagues in a complex data environment at senior level
• Skilled in using data query tools, spreadsheets and databases
• Substantial knowledge gained through analytical experience in Information Management within the NHS
• Knowledge of the NHS data model including the Inpatient, Outpatient and RTT/PTL models

Communication

Essential criteria

• Interpret requirements and present reports that can be understood by a wide audience.
• Interpret requirements and present reports that can be understood by a wide audience.
• An ability to interpret and apply central guidance and policies to departmental systems and reporting structures.
• Capable of communicating impacts of changes in Information Management policies to a diverse audience.

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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

• JD & person specification (PDF, 392.4KB)
• Denmark Hill Site Map (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Princess Royal (PRUH) Site map (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Visa and Sponsorship Information (PDF, 344.6KB)