We are looking for a dynamic individual with excellent analytical skills and an enthusiasm for service improvement to join our friendly and supportive Occupational Health team. Amongst your expertise you will have a proven record of improving data quality, experience of managing information systems and of timely production of data reports for different audiences. You will also need to be extremely well organised, energetic and enjoy working within a multidisciplinary team of both clinical and non clinical professionals. If this sounds like you, and you like the idea of helping to support staff health and wellbeing, the we look forward to hearing from you.

Avon Partnership Occupational Health Service (APOHS) is an NHS service hosted by UHBW, in partnership with North Bristol Trust & Sirona care & health. We provide a specialist service to the local health community here in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire as well as providing services to other private and public sector organisations in the local and surrounding areas.

This is an exciting time to join our service as we take forward a new strategy to ensure our NHS people are safe, healthy and protected in their roles. We know that looking after their health and wellbeing in turn has a positive impact on the quality of patient care they can give. This post will be central to realising our vision by providing high quality analysis that can enable evidence informed decisions.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will provide senior information analyst expertise to support operational delivery and improvement initiatives across the occupational health service. Specifically the postholder will:

• Deliver high quality information analysis to support optimising current and future service delivery, performance management, business planning processes, and other key strategic and corporate requirements of NHS partners and external customers.
• Support strategic programmes of work which are designed to bring about transformational change, working alongside clinical and operational colleagues to drive forward service improvement initiatives.
• Lead for occupational health information analysis, working with complex and varied data to produce business intelligence reports to support evidence based decision making.

About us

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Degree level qualification of equivalent experience
• Post graduate qualification to level 7 (or working towards) in relevant subject or demonstrable equivalent gained through a combination of short courses and experience
• Committed to continuous professional development

Desirable

• Qualification in either Service/Quality Improvement, Organisational Development or Project Management

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Expert technical knowledge of clinical data information systems
• Experience of working within an information environment, including current or previous experience of the NHS
• Experience in complex data extraction from information databases and manipulation of this data in spreadsheets and applications such as Excel and Power BI
• Good understanding of statistics and their application in a business environment
• Experience of developing web based reports to produce interactive dashboards and reports
• Knowledge of UK Data Protection Law and data security requirements

Desirable

• Good understanding of the national policy context in relation to NHS staff health and wellbeing
• Experience of working effectively in a clinically led multidisciplinary team
• Experience of working in an NHS trust or an occupational health service
• Experience of line management

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Expert level of skill in information analysis and synthesis, including the ability to receive highly complex and sensitive information on employee health, and the ability to interpret and draw conclusions from the findings
• Ability to develop and deploy a diverse range of statistical and modelling techniques to plan, analyse, quantify, develop and improve services alongside NHS partners
• Ability to make decisions and show considerable initiative in the formulation of recommendations and subsequent actions
• Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on complex, sensitive or contentious matters in difficult situations, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise an unpredictable workload with frequent disruption
• Excellent problem solving, facilitation and negotiation skills
• Ability to work on own initiative without close supervision

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)

Address

Whitefriars

Lewins Mead

Bristol

BS1 2NT

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