Job summary

Working across the Informatics and Finance Departments, along with internal and external stakeholders we would like you to bring your skills, knowledge and experience to join the Trust Information Department.

This role will be transformative and key to shaping the future of the way the organisations uses data to make important business decisions. Your skills in process change will help raise the profile and accuracy of patient level costing and enable true transformational changes to be realised.

The RSFT is looking for a highly-motivated senior & analytical Business Partner to work across our Informatics and Finance Department. This is a senior role requiring strong interpersonal negotiation, and organisational skills who is able to communicate key information at all levels. The post holder needs to have strong T-SQL skills and will bewill be responsible for loading data into the Civica SLAM database on a bi weekly basis as well as for regular submissions of CDS SUS data and supporting the costing team with provision of monthly costing data.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will play a key role in developing, maintaining and evolving numerous Service Level Agreement Monitoring (SLAM) reports required by the Contracts and Income Team, and supporting the Costing Team providing data to satisfy the Costing Standards.

In return, we offer excellent benefits, flexibility, training & development and challenging project work.

If you are keen to drive and lead on service delivery and like a fast paced working environment, then we are keen to hear from you.

About us

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is a friendly, supportive, busy but welcoming acute and community Trust that is ambitious about developing our services and your career.

Our compassionate, caring and friendly colleagues make up our Royal Surrey family and are at the heart of what we do. We all have a passion for learning, continuous improvement and excelling together through innovation, research and development. There are over 4,500 members of our Royal Surrey family.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in the community and homes across Guildford and Waverley.

We have received an overall Good rating from the CQC with Medical care (including older peoples care), End of Life Care and Maternity services being deemed Outstanding by the CQC. We are investing in our colleagues through our health and wellbeing programme and a commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than �45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years.

There has never been a better time to join us.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Working closely with the Trust Finance, Income and Costing Departments the post holder will be the Information Teams leading expert regarding the creation and submission of Commissioning Data Sets (CDS); income datasets to be loaded into Civica SLAM; and the creation of activity datasets for Service Line Reporting (SLR)/ Patient-Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) and National Cost Collection. Additionally, the post holder will be the primary lead on contract and costing activity analytics, i.e. the departments primary contact for supporting the contracting, income and costing teams in finance.

The post holder will play a key role in developing, maintaining and evolving numerous Service Level Agreement Monitoring (SLAM) reports required by the Contracts and Income Team, and supporting the Costing Team providing data to satisfy the Costing Standards.

The role encompasses working with Information, IT, and Finance teams as well as clinical groups in the development and preparation of complex requirements specifications. This will require skills in analytics, interpretation and resolution of highly complex problems covering a wide range of clinical and business areas including those at a national level.

The post holder will be responsible for loading data into the SLAM database on a bi weekly basis as well as for regular submissions of CDS SUS data and supporting the costing team with provision of monthly SLR/PLICS data.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelors Degree level education or equivalent work experience.

Experience

Essential

• Significant in information related or analytical role.
• Experience in the acute sector with an in depth understanding of the NHS information flows, hospital systems and applications.
• Knowledge of NHS CDS datasets.
• Experience in the submission of CDS datasets.
• Experience in the use of database extraction tools to develop complex queries.
• Experience of NHS Costing Information requirements.
• Experience of pulling together data from a wide range of sources and presenting information in a meaningful way.

Desirable

• Experience in the use of Civica SLAM.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Egerton Road

Guildford

Surrey

GU2 7XX

Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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