Band 6 Information Analyst - Bath NHS House

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To develop and provide accurate and timely reports on activity and performance to commissioners, directors, managers and clinicians.
• To develop and maintain reports to be run by local staff in support of day-to-day operational activity.
• To help develop a culture based around the positive use of information for service delivery and service development.
• To support best practice techniques to uphold data quality and improve timeliness of information across the Trust
• Within designated areas, to provide an information reporting and analysis service to managers and clinicians to enable monitoring and improvement of their services.
• Responsible for all information provision within designated areas including maintaining and developing knowledge of specific reporting requirements
• To provide information, both patient-based and aggregate, to partner organisations within and outside the NHS for planning and commissioning purposes.
• Support staff with advice on data collection and definitions, in order to support their use of information and of the Trusts new patient administration system (RiO).
• Liaise with staff in their working environments to align data to their requirements and assist with data quality.
• To influence the organisational culture to make better use of information.
• Provide support and training to other members of the Information Team, as determined by the Senior Information Analyst.
• Participate in Trust-wide projects and groups as determined by the Senior Information Analyst.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.

• Qualified in or experience of working with relational databases and information reporting packages.

Experience

• Analysing and engaging with Trust operational dat
• Designing, developing and validating Reporting Services reports
• Knowledge & experience of NHS informatics, including Mental Health datasets (e.g. MHSDS)

• Experience of working with both relational and OLAP databases
• Experience of writing up test cases and insert test values into UAT environments

Skills

• Ability to grasp complex technical data requirements.
• Data manipulation and analysis.
• Well organised with a logical approach
• Attention to detail.
• Good written communication skills.
• Good verbal communication skills
• An ability to engender confidence in information in staff of the Trust
• An ability to work in a stressful environment whilst maintaining personal calm and control.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Bath NHS House

Bath

BA1 3QE

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/