Analyst | Nhs England

The Analytics team is an analytical service supporting North East and Yorkshire Region by providing information, analysis and analytical support. We have an aim of 'do once and automate' wherever possible. This approach reduces the analytical overhead enabling us to support local analysis where required and ensures consistency.
Example projects include:
• Supporting NHS planning by collecting and assuring plans to ensure that the Health system can commission the care their patients need within the resources they have available
• Monitoring and assurance of delivery against plan within the NHS, considering seasonal planning and resilience. This allows us to understand the true performance of the NHS and identify areas of good or poor performance.
• Developing new indicators to monitor performance, this can involve working with policy leads, commissioners, providers, and other organisations to identify, create and test indicators.
• Assurance of the Health system via the development of indicators across performance, outcomes, and patient experience
• Modelling and in-depth analysis to support the delivery of the long-term plan and to tailor analysis to the relevant regional or national audience.
Our staff operates from regional offices.
As an Analyst, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic analytical community supporting managers and staff across NEY functions.
The post holder will support a team of senior analytical managers within the Analytics Team which will provide strategic analysis for insight into NHS performance and evidence to support decision-making.
Specifically the post holder will:
• Demonstrate knowledge and established practice of a variety and depth of analytical techniques (including advanced Excel skills)
• Be adaptable when finding analytical solutions to problems, to analyse and triangulate data in innovative ways and present findings clearly to a range of audiences.
• Understand the importance of maintaining quality within analysis.
• Be able to largely drive their own work programme
• Have excellent communication skills and be able to influence people with different perspectives to get the most out of stakeholder relationships.
• Be a key member of the team as well as supporting effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally
• Havesound knowledge of NHS data and where applicable non NHS sources and business processes, and good technical skills in data management, business intelligence and analytics, including data modelling, data visualisation with a focus on building self-service analytics solutions which will allow business users to analyse data themselves.
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today! We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out!
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Apr 2024