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Job summary

Main area
Corporate
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
164-7758046
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust - QMC and City Hospital Campus
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
18/03/2026 23:59

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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Advanced Analyst - CDS Specialist

Band 7

Job overview

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an experienced and motivated Advanced Analyst (Band 7) to join the Contracting & Commissioning Data Sets (CDS) Team. The post holder will provide specialist analytical expertise, delivering high quality, timely and accurate information to support contracting, Finance and Commissioning, performance management and statutory reporting.

The role will involve the analysis and interpretation of complex datasets and data flows. The post holder will be able to support with improving reporting processes and quality for our CDS and contracting reports.

Working with a degree of autonomy, the post holder will liaise with a range of internal and external stakeholders, to support and inform operational and managerial decision-making, in line with national guidance and Trust priorities.

Main duties of the job

Provide specialist analytical support, delivering high quality, timely and accurate data to support Commissioning, Finance, performance management and statutory reporting requirements

Undertake the analysis and interpretation of complex, large scale healthcare datasets, including CDS and related national returns, ensuring compliance with national guidance and local business rules

Develop, maintain and improve routine and ad-hoc reports, dashboards and data extracts

Apply working knowledge of database architecture, design and data flows to support data extraction, transformation with reporting processes, working with colleagues to resolve data quality or system issues

Act as an analytical liaison with internal stakeholder, including Finance, Information, Clinical and Operational teams, to understand requirements and translate them into analytical outputs

Identify, investigate and support in the resolution of data quality issues

Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of analytical processes, documentation and standards within the team

Provide training, advice and informal supervision to junior analysts or non-analytical colleagues, promoting good practice in the user and understanding of data

Ensure all work is undertaken in accordance with Information Governance, data protection and Trust Polices.

 

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the
job, please refer to the job description attached

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent learning/experience in relevant fields. e.g. informatics, analysis, statistics or operational research, health informatics
  • Post graduate qualification or equivalent learning/experience in relevant fields
  • Evidence of continued personal development
  • Experience of working in an analytical role within an acute hospital setting
Desirable criteria
  • Masters or above in relevant fields e.g. informatics, analysis, statistics or operational research, CDS, health informatics
  • Qualification or training in database management, architecture, database design

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Highly developed specialist knowledge of CDS, PbR, NHS contracting processes
  • Experience in using statistical & analytical techniques and information analysis, acquired though degree level or equivalent.
  • Experience of detailed analysis and validation of various types of data
  • Detailed knowledge & understanding of Health Informatics
  • Experience of working in an analytical role within an acute hospital setting
  • Experience of using query languages, including MySQL, SQL, QLIK.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of supervising staff/leading projects
  • Experience of implementation of projects for new systems and the development of in-house processes
  • Experience in developing tools using Business Intelligence software (e.g. Qlikview, Tableau, SSRS, R, Python)
  • Experience of presenting or demonstrating work/projects at team or department level
  • Experience or database design, database management, database processes and architecture.

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and team working skills
  • Ability to train others in range of data, measurement and analytical topics.
  • Ability to communicate complex (potentially contentious or sensitive) analytical issues to
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of influencing future developments at a national level

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to act as an expert in field of data capture, manipulation and dissemination.
  • Ability to analyse, interpret and present highly complex information from large data sets
  • Very high level of computer literacy & technical competence – including MS EXCEL & ACCESS, SQL
  • High level of numeracy with good problem solving and attention to detail
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of being a strategic thinker

Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent organisational and planning skills
  • Ability to prioritise own workload
  • Ability to manage a series of concurrent and consecutive pieces of work.
  • Ability to organise pieces of work involving input from other people, to ensure completion in a timely manner
  • Set own priorities and develop work programmes for department

Physical Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to use a computer for prolonged periods

Other requirements

Essential criteria
  • Must be able to work across campuses and from home

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Application numbers

Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Robert Young
Job title
Contracting & CDS Team Leader
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0115 9691169
Additional information

Extension: 71051

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