Job summary

The Informatics Team in the Genomics Medicine Service has an opportunity for a Senior Information Analyst to join a growing, dynamic and busy team.

As a Senior Information Analyst, you will take a lead role in the delivery of structured reporting such as balanced scorecards, and subsequent analysis and narrative to facilitate information based decision making in our business. You will also provide ad-hoc reporting and analysis on a per request basis.

Interview date 17 December 2024

Main duties of the job

You will contribute to the creation of our reporting solution based on AWS QuickSights and Power BI including requirement gathering, design, development, testing and roll out of both the portal, and associated reports. You will identify requirements, KPI, measures and metrics and then work closely with our data engineering and testing teams to ensure that our data warehouse can support the provision of reporting and analysis. You will present your reports at various meetings, and provide narrative as to what the data tells us.

Alongside structured reporting, you will also take part in ad hoc analysis of our many datasets to support particular projects across the business. This will involve requirement gathering, identification of data, cleaning, delivery and interpretation of reports, including statistical analysis and machine learning. Previous experience with data mining methodologies such as CRISP-DM in R would be a definite advantage.

You will contribute to projects being managed by others as a team member, as well as lead your own and therefore will be able to lead projects from conception to delivery to a high standard, including task management, assignment and the provision of highlight reports on a weekly basis. Any experience of project management methodologies and experience with Jira, Microsoft DevOps or similar task management software is an advantage.

About us

Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:

o Freeman Hospitalo Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)o Newcastle Dental Hospitalo Newcastle Fertility Centreo Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbriao Northern Genetics Serviceo Cramlington Manor Walks

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Senior Information Analyst, you will take a role in mentoring the team on specific skillsets as required and throughout the business in an attempt to increase our base level of data literacy. Knowledge of data ethics and the ability to discuss data truthfulness is a must. You will be educated to degree level in Informatics or a related field and have some exposure or qualification in leadership.

Act as a GMSA lead and work across all Trust sites to provide specialist analytical and statistical services for the GMSA with a focus on complex data modelling and projection analyses. Develop access to relevant denominator datasets, and promote the consistent use of reporting tools and methodologies across all Alliance sites to support the production of equity analysis, project benefit reporting and clinical pathway analyses. Take a key role in improving data quality and data integrity across all GMS sites and amongst referring partners and promote the importance of data quality across the GMS. Act as the Information lead for the GMSA, working in co-ordination with the GLH Information lead.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential

Possess an Honours Degree in relevant subject ( Mathematics, Statistics or Health Informatics) plus specialist experience within NHS Management Information equivalent to Master's Degree level qualification or equivalent level qualifications/experience

Desirable

Hold Post Graduate Diploma in Health Information Systems Be a member of AphA

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Possess awareness of NHS policy development Possess awareness of NHS Commissioning and Reference Costs processes Possess highly developed specialist knowledge in the following areas: NHS data systems, data flows, and the Data Dictionary. Statistical modelling Computer literacy coupled with a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Windows and advanced keyboard skills Developing and using complex spreadsheets, in particular through Microsoft Excel Developing and using databases, in particular Microsoft Access Relational Databases and SQL (or similar) query writing. PowerBI or similar packages

Skills & Abilities

Essential

Excellent communication skills Able to work to deadlines Be able to design and implement practical data collection policies, procedures and processes. Possess strong numerical, statistical, analytical and reporting skills Possess good presentation skills