Job summary
- Main area
- Business Intelligence
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 6 months (Fixed Term 6 months)
- Hours
- Full time
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 880-7275331-A
- Employer
- Arden and GEM Commissioning Support Unit
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- County Hall
- Town
- Leicester
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Analytics Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Arden & GEM is a leading Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) working across the health and care system in England to provide transformational solutions, business support and clinical services. We work in partnership with other health and care organisations to design, develop and deliver better care for patients that improves health outcomes while making efficient use of resources. Regardless of function, specialism, or location, we are all united in our commitment to improving health and wellbeing for everyone.
Our services are built on a strong foundation of experienced people who build great relationships, a commitment to NHS values and a thorough understanding of our clients and the challenges they face.
Arden & GEM CSU is committed to supporting the redeployment of our at risk employees. In line with our policy, staff at risk may be given preferential consideration to posts that could be considered suitable alternative employment. We reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. We apologise if you experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle.
Job overview
The post-holder will work as part of the Advanced Analytics Unit to provide evidence, tools, analysis and insights in support of national and regional projects. The post-holder will bring, and be supported to further develop, real technical analytical expertise across disciplines such as modelling, statistics, data science, operational research and/or health economics. The post-holder will be passionate about the contribution they can make to effective decision making. They will be experienced in delivering all aspects of the analytics life cycle, including requirements gathering, analytical methodologies, presentation and interpretation, and able to work with decision makers to achieve real impact.
Main duties of the job
They will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team across the Advanced Analytics Unit. The post-holder will have strong coding skills to support the automation of reporting and the development of pipelines to feed dashboards. In particular, to include proficient in coding using R studio and pyspark, able to use Github, and able to develop dashboards using tableau, databricks, and/or FDP. The post-holder should have strong requirements gathering skills to understand and design new reporting and dashboards. They should have strong management skills required to lead the day-to-day analysis for the Martha’s rule programme and ensure the team of analysts supporting the programme are clear on their work, that analysis is suitably quality assured, and that the programme team’s requirements are met.
Working for our organisation
We are a multi award-winning organisation that has achieved the prestigious Investors in People Gold Award for ‘We invest in people’ and ‘We invest in wellbeing’ and are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We believe that every team member should have the opportunity to contribute and share their ideas.
We reward the hard work and commitment of our people with the following benefits:
- A competitive salary with annual pay reviews
- A generous annual leave entitlement starting at 27 days
- Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
- Flexible working and family friendly policies, including enhanced parental leave and pay
- A wide range of in-house and external learning and development opportunities
- Access to salary sacrifice and discount schemes
- Access to employee assistance and occupational health services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Gather, analyse and interpret complex information, including both quantitative and qualitative, from a wide range of sources taking account of confidentiality and the limitations of the data used.
- Translate verbal and written business requirements into briefs for analytical projects
- Review and appraise published research, grey literature, healthcare policies and organisational activity and financial plans
- Hold extensive knowledge of NHS data and able to create linked datasets
- Select and apply the most appropriate analytical technique, underpinned by robust statistical understanding
- Provide advanced analytical services to strategic healthcare projects and programmes in the form of descriptive analyses, prospective service modelling, retrospective analyses and evaluation
- Utilise modelling and forecasting techniques to predict future need and demand.
- Lead economic and quantitative evaluations using econometric and decision modelling techniques
- Automate reporting and develop data pipelines
- Scope and develop reporting outputs, including dashboard development in Tableau and/or FDP
- Lead delivery of analytical work programmes, matrix managing across multiple staff not under direct line management
Person specification
Education / Training / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area – data science / health economics / statistics / analytics / operational research / mathematics
- Evidence of relevant continued professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of using data and conducting complex analysis
- Experience of communicating the results of complex analysis, both through verbal presentations and written analyses
- Experience of applying techniques from specialist analytical disciplines in healthcare settings such as o Epidemiology o Operational research o Econometrics o Statistical modelling
- Experience of using specialist analytical and data management software (e.g. R, Stata, QGIS, SQL)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of analysis of health and care data
Skills / Abilities
Essential criteria
- Highly developed data manipulation, interpretation and visualisation skills
- Highly proficient in the use of Excel, SQL and R
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, preempt and evaluate issues, and recommend appropriate course of action to address the issues
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis
- Clear communicator with excellent report writing and analytical presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering technical concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences
- Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence
- Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks
- Commitment to personal development and motivation to self-learn
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of current data protection legislation and information governance
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of analytical techniques and methods to support the management of large and complex service delivery systems
Desirable criteria
- Excellent knowledge of health and care data flows
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
Special Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales
- Adaptable, flexible and able to cope with uncertainty and change
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
- Used to working in a busy environment
- Professional, calm and efficient manner
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jess Hicks
- Job title
- Associate Director of Advanced Analytics
- Email address
- [email protected]
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