Senior Strategic Analyst (Integration and PMH Advanced Aanlytics Lead)

Job summary

Business Intelligence and Analytics services exist to support organisations in defining and fulfilling their objectives. Our purpose is to support a complex multi-million pounds health care system on its journey towards best population health and associated Integrated Care System changes, whilst fulfilling statutory duties. The ICB Business Intelligence and Analytics team needs to transform its reach and impact. The Integration and Population Health Management (PHM) Analytics Lead is one of 3 complementary Senior Strategic Analyst roles in our growing BI and Analytics team. With lead responsibility for the advanced analytics portfolio and shared core responsibilities for the full end-to-end value adding BI and Analytics service, you will lead the development of analytics and integration/PHM analytics across the ICB and Primary care, and partner with stakeholder organisations to develop analytics and use of the linked dataset across the ICS.

NHS Herefordshire & Worcestershire ICB recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans, and military families bring to our business and would encourage people from the armed forces community to apply for our vacancies.

Main duties of the job

You lead the development of advanced analytics capability within the BI and Analytics service.

You deliver analytical support for Integration/PHM use cases, deploying advanced analytics methods such as predictive modelling, statistics, actuarial modelling, data sciences, and AI/machine learning, aligning analytical tools to specific problems for the ICB, and coordinating the development of an analytics/data science network for the Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICS analytics community.

You stay abreast of national PHM developments, and propose value-adding initiatives for better patient outcomes and resource utilization.

Overall and together with the other strategic posts and Associate Director, we deliver a value adding service, managing end-to-end delivery, maximising productivity, building on each other's strengths:

You act as partners in problem solving, taking a can-do attitude within current capability, continuously developing the service for greater capability going forward. You proactively establish and manage relationships, ensuring the service is continuously aligned to need / organisational objectives, providing essential support to organisational transformation. You carry out analyses, help progress organisational understanding, learning and data literacy, over time deploying more advanced approaches. You lead/manage BI and Analytics projects / programmes for service improvement and participate in others You lead/manage service operational delivery.

About us

The NHS is a world-renowned institution and an exciting place to work, full of challenges and opportunities. Within NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB, we are responsible for a range of health services for our population of over 800,000 people who live within a mix of urban and rurally dispersed communities, spanning two of the largest counties in England.

We provide a supportive and collaborative environment where we work with our staff to provide opportunities for you to reach your full potential and to develop a rewarding career within an exciting and evolving environment. We aim to enable our employees to achieve a positive work-life balance through a blend of collaborative workplace attendance combined with regular home working. Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of attractive benefits including:

Employee Assistance programmes and access to a wealth of on-line health and wellbeing support

Competitive NHS Pension Scheme

Comprehensive opportunities to learn new skills and to develop your career within a caring and inclusive environment,

Generous holiday entitlement, which increases in line with service. There is also the opportunity to purchase additional leave.

Flexible working patterns to support individuals work-life balance.

Please note we operate a 3-month probationary period for new appointments

Job description

Job responsibilities

This role is an exciting opportunity to transform the service, and in turn impact the wider systems ability to deliver best care within best use of resources for the Herefordshire and Worcestershire populations health.

You will need a mix of:

Advanced range of technical and analytical skills/experience, Strong Leadership, influencing, relationship building and communication skills, Service improvement, project/programme and change management experience/skills Curiosity, an appetite for learning, and ability to deliver through teamwork Substantial relevant experience and numerate qualifications

We will consider candidates with a strong enough skills mix but some gaps, and evidenced ability to grow rapidly within the role. We would support the right candidate with training.

Please refer to the Job description and person specification for the full details, and dont hesitate to get in touch for an informal discussion about the role and its potential!

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in analytics services, with a demonstrable focus on advanced analytics/data science/ advanced statistics service development and products. Experience in end-to-end technical aspects of analytics/data science production pipeline, including data acquisition, data engineering, use of advanced tools (R, Python etc). Batchelor's degree in computer science, statistics, data science, economics, or other suitably numerate/statistics rich field, Masters degree preferred, or equivalent substantial experience.

Desirable

Experience of the NHS system (including key drivers - financial (PBR etc) and others, relationships/power struggles between main bodies, NHS E role etc), an advantage but not essential. Substantial PHM analytics and PHM change experience an advantage Some clinical understanding an advantage.

Skills, Knowledge & Competencies

Essential

Ability to influence and guide followers or members of an organisation / group / team, including guiding senior leaders (and their staff) in productive usage of the BI and Analytics service / developing data literacy competency. Analytical can unpack complex issues/systemic thinking into their component parts, understands / models dynamic interactions between various aspects as well as the impact of the next wider context, can separate meaningful aspects from peripheral details, understands and identify the predictable vs not, can effectively synthesize into core significant elements Inform solution design; can correctly align relevant datasets / construct useful data models manipulate / deploy advanced pertinent analytical methods to inform outcome. Project/programme management comprehensive experience of applying project and programme management principles and techniques.

Desirable

PowerBI (over other) Formal statistics and/or data science qualification(s) an advantage. Certification in one or more of: MSP, QSRI, Agile, Praxis, Prince2, an advantage.

Personal Qualities

Essential

Can work independently, taking responsibility for their own area within the wider senior BI team scope, contributing to the whole team leadership / decision making / team management & development. Professional calm, focused on value adding and collaboration. Values Teamwork and diversity, understand and apply equal opportunity approaches.