Senior Analyst - Band 7

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Wollaton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Band 7 Senior Analyst for Corporate Nursing. You will turn complex information into clear insights that support assurance, improvement and decision making, focusing on nursing and midwifery workforce intelligence.

The role is flexible across quality, safety, workforce and transformation. You will lead development of reports and dashboards, work with clinical services, quality, finance and digital teams, and present findings to senior leaders

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent learning/experience.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Develop reports, dashboards and analysis to help senior leaders understand performance, demand and workforce across Corporate Nursing.
• Identify trends, variation, risks and opportunities, undertake forecasting and modelling, and evaluate the impact of changes and improvement work.
• Provide analytical support across the wider Corporate Nursing portfolio in response to organisational priorities.

Skills

Data analysis

Forecasting

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Education

Degree level or equivalent

Tools

Excel

SQL

Power BI

R

SPSS

Job description

Are you an experienced analyst who wants to see your work directly influence nursing services, workforce planning and patient care?

We are creating an exciting new Band 7 Senior Analyst role within Corporate Nursing. Working closely with the Associate Director of Nursing and senior nursing leaders, you will turn complex information into clear insight that supports assurance, improvement and effective decision making.

The initial focus will be nursing and midwifery workforce intelligence. However, this is a flexible Corporate Nursing role which will respond to changing priorities across quality, safety, workforce, performance, service improvement and transformation.

This is an opportunity to shape a new role and make a visible difference. If you enjoy asking the right questions, finding the story behind the numbers and helping leaders make better decisions, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will bring together information from systems, people, services and finance to develop a joined up understanding of performance, demand, quality, outcomes and workforce across Corporate Nursing.

You will develop reports, dashboards and analysis that help senior leaders understand what is happening, why it is happening and where action may be required. You will identify trends, variation, risks and opportunities, undertake forecasting and modelling, and evaluate the impact of changes and improvement work.

You will provide analytical support across the wider Corporate Nursing portfolio in response to organisational priorities.

You will work with colleagues across nursing, quality, rostering, workforce, finance, digital and the wider Group analytical service to translate complex information into clear recommendations and meaningful action.

About us

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Job responsibilities

The Senior Analyst will lead the development and delivery of analytical and business intelligence support for Corporate Nursing. The postholder will analyse and interpret complex information from a range of clinical, operational, workforce, quality and financial sources.

They will develop accessible reports, dashboards and analytical products, identify trends and variation, undertake forecasting and modelling, and provide specialist advice to support planning, assurance, improvement and transformation.

The postholder will work independently, manage routine and urgent analytical requests and respond flexibly as Corporate Nursing priorities change. They will present complex findings clearly to technical and non technical audiences, constructively challenge interpretation and support leaders to move from data to practical action.

The role will work collaboratively with colleagues across Corporate Nursing, clinical services, quality, workforce, finance, digital and the wider Group analytical service. It will promote consistent definitions, effective information governance and the best use of available data and analytical systems.

The postholder will support wider Corporate Nursing priorities where analytical input is required.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent learning/experience


• Evidence of continued professional development

Previous Experience

• Proficient in the analysis and interpretation of data from both non-financial sources and financial systems (e.g. problem formulation, data management, explicative analytics, predictive analytics, prescriptive analytics, evaluative analytics, communicating analytical results, project management, interpreting spreadsheets, ledgers, etc).


• Interprets and resolves highly complex statistical/ epidemiological/information problems


• Persuasion, motivation and negotiation skills to resolve gain agreement and reduce conflict


• Experience of managing complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options/highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options


• Experience of analysing, investigating and resolving complex statistical/analytical/epidemiological queries and issues/problems, where there is a range of solutions/ analyses


• Experience of effective partnership working including working with clinicians.


• Relevant skills gained in the NHS


• Relevant experience gained in NHS workforce, staffing or healthcare analytics

Knowledge/Skills

• Highly developed specialist knowledge of tools (could include SPC, Excel, Data Warehouse, SQL, R, PowerBI, SPSS, SystmOne, electronic staff records, PLICS, and approaches e.g., Modern Hospital, statistics, population health, population health management, epidemiology, information analysis and the use of information across large, complex organisations or systems)


• Understanding of the wider determinants of health and the significance of health inequalities


• Knowledge of improvement skills and techniques to support change


• Understanding of key national and local strategies, policy drivers and population health management


• Relevant knowledge of these areas pertinent to the NHS


• Knowledge of both Acute and Community settings.

Specific Requirements

• Will be required to work across sites


• Good general IT and keyboard skills

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.