Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Workforce Information Analyst
NHS AfC: Band 5
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity in our Workforce Systems Team for a full-time, permanent Senior Workforce Information Analyst.
Working closely with the wider team you will support the delivery of the HR/OD Strategy, possess an understanding and awareness of national NHS reporting requirements, data standards, and definitions, information data flows, and benchmarking.
Alongside your colleagues you will be responsible for the data quality held in the Trust’s HR systems, and be responsible for ensuring the day to day delivery of all statutory and ad-hoc reporting. You will have previous experience of working flexibly, under pressure and to conflicting deadlines, and be adaptable to changing requirements and priorities.
You should have the ability to produce workforce intelligence derived from a range of locally held systems, and deliver succinct reporting that supports stakeholder requirements that may be used for service delivery, service improvement, business planning and commissioning.
You will possess good technical, analytical, communication and organisational skills with a flair for improvement.
Candidates should possess advanced Excel skills.
Candidates should also be educated to HNC/HND level in a subject with a substantial numerate content or equivalent level of acquired knowledge and experience.
Knowledge of a range of NHS systems including ESRBI is essential.
Main duties of the job
To provide an information service to senior managers through analysis and interpretation of workforce data and systems, and to contribute to performance monitoring.
To maintain data quality of ESR ensuring national standards are adhered to and working best practice is aligned to these.
To be responsible for responding to inbound data requests made to the trust by external bodies such as national data returns/FOI requests.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality opening a state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide an information analysis service to senior managers through analysis and interpretation of workforce data and systems, and to contribute to performance monitoring.
To maintain data quality of ESR ensuring national standards are adhered to and working best practice is aligned to these
To be responsible for responding to inbound data requests made to the trust by external bodies ie national data returns/FOI requests.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level, or equivalent experience, in a numerate discipline, preferably mathematics or statistics
Experience and Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to understand complex processes and interdependencies regarding the scope of transfer of workforce data between the various workforce systems – both automatically via interfaces and manually via dataloads.
- ESR BI Local report writing experience
- Experience of working with NHS HR Workforce Systems
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Brown
- Job title
- Workforce Systems Programme Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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