PHM Analyst

Integrated Care System; Telford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A Local Integrated Care Board in Telford seeks a PHM Analyst to lead analytics for Musculoskeletal, Children and Young People, and Cancer services. The role requires expert analytical skills to create insight products and dashboards, engaging with various teams to tackle health inequalities. Candidates should have experience using Power BI, Excel, and SQL in health settings. Join to make a meaningful impact on local health outcomes.

Benefits

Opportunity to influence local health improvements

Professional development within NHS

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Proven analytical experience, especially within the NHS.
• Experience in Population Health Management and Health Inequalities.
• Ability to create effective dashboards and perform advanced data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics for MSK, CYP, and Cancer programs.
• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards for clinical areas.
• Engage with stakeholders to embed data insights in planning and evaluation.

Skills

Analytical skills

Data science expertise

Power BI proficiency

R programming

Tools

Excel

SQL

Power BI

Job description

Go back NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board

PHM Analyst

The closing date is 29 August 2025

***Applications will only be accepted from System colleagues of STW ICB, SATH, SCHT and RJAH***

We are seeking an experiencedPopulation Health Management (PHM) and Health Inequalities Analystto lead analytics for our Musculoskeletal (MSK), Children and Young People (CYP), and Cancerprogrammes.

This fixed-term post will run until 31 March 2026and will involve developing and maintaining PHM insight products and Power BI dashboards, applying techniques such as segmentation, risk stratification, and impactability modelling. You will work closely with transformation teams, clinicians, and public health colleagues to translate complex analysis into actionable insights that reduce variation and tackle health inequalities.

Please note: application made with the use of Artificially generated narrative will be rejected

Main duties of the job

Act as the PHM and HI lead analyst for MSK, CYP, and Cancer across NHS STW.

Build, update, and maintain Power BI dashboards and reporting tools for the MSK, CYP, and Cancer portfolios.

Apply PHM techniques such as segmentation, risk stratification, and impactability modelling to inform service transformation.

Translate analytical outputs into actionable insights to reduce variation and tackle health inequalities.

Work with clinicians, programme leads, digital and transformation teams to embed analytics into programme planning and evaluation.

Use NHS and local datasets (including SUS, primary care, and public health datasets) to conduct in-depth analyses and drive local population profiling.

Design and deliver bespoke analyses to support planning, evaluation, and targeting of interventions within MSK, CYP, and Cancer pathways.

Represent analytics in multi-agency meetings, ensuring PHM data is embedded in service improvement and commissioning decisions.

Maintain professional standards aligned with NHSE's DDaT Framework and participate in the NHS STW analytics community of practice.

About us

Our goal as an organisation is to lead and support delivery of the four Integrated Care System (ICS) aims across STW.

o Improving outcomes in population health and care

o Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access

o Enhancing productivity and value for money

o Helping the NHS to support broader social and economic development.

All staff are required to model the values of the organisation detailed below, to support the ICB to successfully deliver these aims.

The Business Intelligence and Analytics team comprises of 11 staff, working closely together sharing knowledge and expertise to deliver our work. The Team is proud of a great working relationship together and with system colleagues.

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

This is a fixed-term post with a specific portfolio: to lead the Population Health Management (PHM) and Health Inequalities (HI) analytics programme for Musculoskeletal (MSK), Children and Young People (CYP), and Cancer services across NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin (STW). The role will involve producing, maintaining, and developing PHM insight products and Power BI dashboards for these clinical priority areas, working closely with transformation, clinical, and public health colleagues.

Key Working Relationships

The post holder will need to build and maintain constructive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to:

• Internal ICB staff including managers, colleagues, and senior management as appropriate

ICS partners, including portfolio leads, Local Authorities and Provider and Place Collaboratives

• Non-NHS organisations
• Transformation
• Digital
• Clinical

Members of the public and service users as appropriate

Matrix work across all other teams to address interdependencies and ensure alignment of mutual objectives.

External consultancy, as required.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Act as the PHM and HI lead analyst for MSK, CYP, and Cancer across NHS STW.

Build, update, and maintain Power BI dashboards and reporting tools for the MSK, CYP, and Cancer portfolios.

Apply PHM techniques such as segmentation, risk stratification, and impactability modelling to inform service transformation.

Translate analytical outputs into actionable insights to reduce variation and tackle health inequalities.

Work with clinicians, programme leads, digital and transformation teams to embed analytics into programme planning and evaluation.

Use NHS and local datasets (including SUS, primary care, and public health datasets) to conduct in-depth analyses and drive local population profiling.

Design and deliver bespoke analyses to support planning, evaluation, and targeting of interventions within MSK, CYP, and Cancer pathways.

Represent analytics in multi-agency meetings, ensuring PHM data is embedded in service improvement and commissioning decisions.

Maintain professional standards aligned with NHSEs DDaT Framework and participate in the NHS STW analytics community of practice.

Operational Responsibility

• The post holder will support the Business Intelligence Manager and their team to ensure that their workstream of programmes are planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery.
• To support and monitor the delivery of a number of key activities and outputs and to link into the National Population Health Management Development Programme.
• Within the health setting, to work closely with the clinical leads, specialist Population Health Management suppliers, transformation workstreams, Digital and the National Population Health Management Development Team to ensure the local Population Health Management programme is fit for purpose and delivers benefits.
• To develop a set out key objectives for the development and implementation of Population Health Management locally and to monitor delivery against these objectives

Financial and Physical Resources Responsibility

• Hold delegated budget including for own specialist service
• Contributes to the formulation of budgets for their section and externally
• Authorised signatory to verify and authorise travel expenses and timesheets for bank and agency workers when totalling around £1,000 per month.

Human Resources Responsibility

• Day to day management of a team of staff, including work allocation, may be required to support and train less experienced staff as appropriate
• Ability to explain processes and procedures to those unfamiliar with them and provide training to support as appropriate.
• Provide training on specialism to staff at all levels, including clinicians and management.

Information ManagementResponsibility

Responsible for the maintenanceof the directorates information system Regular advanced level use of a variety of IT packages to create reports using databases, designing, and formatting reports.

Planning and Organisation Responsibility

• Ability to plan and organise a broad range of complex activities. Ability to formulate, and adjust plans and strategies, co-ordinating allocation of plans as appropriate
• Plans and implements new ways of working, facilitate collaborative working, capacity planning

Policy and Service Development Responsibility

• Implement policies and propose changes to practices, procedures and policies for own area which can at times also be implemented outside of own area.

Research and Development Responsibility

• Completes organisational staff surveys as and when required and other surveys or audits that are applicable to their role.
• May undertake complex surveys and audits as necessary to own work

Freedom to Act

• The post holder is required to follow and work within the organisations and professional policies to enable them to successfully achieve the agreed outcomes.
• The post holder will work autonomously and as a specialist within their area, will be required to lead on specific projects as required

Analytical and Judgemental Responsibility

• Analysis of performance data and capacity and demand data, assess projects, identifying areas for collaborative working and/or improvement
• Analysis of intricate enquiries that require review, interpretation and evaluation of options/results taking into account any conflicting information or trends

Communication Responsibility

• Communicates, presents, and receives complex, sensitive, or contentious information to and from a varied audience including internal and external staff and other external organisations. May be required to present information to groups where negotiation or training is required due to barriers of understanding with the ability to obtain agreement and co-operation as needed.
• Motivational skills to encourage collaborative working to improve services/performance

where there may be resistance to change

Presents workshops to large groups of staff

Person Specification

Anayical Experience

• The applicant has proven analytical experience
• The applicant has NHS analytical experience

PHM and Health Ineqaulties experience

• Applicant has working experience in PHM and HI fields
• Applicant has proven NHS analytical experience working in PHM and HI fields

Analytcial tecnical ability

• The applicant have proven experience in use of Excel , creation of dashboard and SQL data extraction
• Applicant has proven experience in use of advanced analytical skills - data science, R, Power BI, Query etc.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board

Address

NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB

Wellington Civic Offices Larkin Way Tan Bank Wellington,

Wellington Civic Offices Larkin Way Tan Bank Wellington,