The Performance and Information team provide a high-quality analytics service for clinicians and managers to support decision making. The team sits centrally in the Trust and looks after business intelligence, data analytics, information governance and ensures that data is dealt with legally, securely, efficiently and effectively in order to deliver best possible care.

The successful applicant will be part of a high performing team managing a comprehensive data warehouse containing integrated data from clinical, finance and workforce systems. The team has been recognised by NHSI as a national leader in developing high quality performance reports.

We are looking for a proactive, organised and collaborative individual, with a passion for using data and visualisations to influence and provide insights to help improve health outcomes of people experiencing mental health problems.

As part of the interview process, there will be a presentation. The topic and data for the presentation will be provided before interview day. The interview will take place in person, you will be required to bring a photo ID. Acceptable photo ID will be outlined and confirmed in the interview invite.

Main duties of the job

You will be working as part of a centralised Information team and be responsible for providing a data analytics and dashboard/visualisation development service to clinicians and managers to support decision making and evidence-based care. You will be responsible for the development of submission of statutory returns, whilst driving insights, change and evidence interventions.

You will be undertaking and explaining complex concepts and information people across the business and will be creating effective data visualisations in order to convey information and improve data literacy.

Applicants are required to provide a full outline of their relevant education, including year completed and grades / results obtained (if recent), employment history and responsibilities held within each of their roles, including completing the supporting statement. You are required to complete the Trust value's question as part of the application. Applications received will be assessed against the information provided within application form i.e. education, employment history and responsibilities, the supporting statement and the Trust values question, against the job description and person specification. Where candidates do not outline and/or unable to demonstrate their previous skills, knowledge and experience in their application, the Trust will be unable to assess these against the job description and person specification, and candidates will not be selected for the selection process.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Job description

Job responsibilities

A full set of the responsibilities can be viewed in the job description and person specification.

In addition to the main duties outline for the role, some of the key responsibilities include:

• Develop and produce external mandatory returns to an agreed timetable.
• Produce regular internal reports to an agreed timetable. These will include:
• Contract monitoring
• Trust Board reports
• Data quality reports
• Performance indicator reports and clinical dashboards
• Utilise SQL on a daily basis to maintain the Trust Data Warehouse
• Lead on the development of data quality monitoring tools and techniques to support the accurate reporting of all internal and external reports.
• Develop data feeds into the Data Warehouse and dashboards/visualisations for use by relevant Trust staff using Tableau software.
• Contribute to the provision of a high quality information analysis service for all areas within the Trust interpreting and analysing data, providing clear, accurate and timely reports to managers, clinicians and other Trust staff.
• Undertake work with senior clinicians and managers to support the development of strategic plans for the provision and development of information analysis within directorates.
• Develop processes for converting extracted data into national and locally defined data sets.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level in a mathematical based subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in a specialist area
• Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
• Educated to A-levels or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Experience of manipulating data in relational databases to provide information reports
• Demonstrable experience of producing and presenting performance and statistical information
• Intermediate, recent and demonstrable experience of , information systems and key MS Office packages
• Experience of managing a busy workload with conflicting priorities
• Experience of developing and improving data collection and reporting systems

Desirable

• Experience of working with NHS/ public sector information
• Experience of handling confidential and sensitive information in accordance with the Data Protection Act
• Use of data visualisation software e.g Tableau, Power BI

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of information systems which includes the ability to operate and manipulate data from a database in order to write and present clear, concise reports and containing performance and statistical information
• Good understanding of relational databases concepts
• Ability to write SQL scripts within either an MS Access or SQL Server environment
• Excellent verbal and written (report writing) communication skills
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise a number of activities and reprioritise to meet tight, conflicting and often changing deadlines
• Ability to present technical (statistical) concepts to a non-technical audience
• Good knowledge user of Microsoft Office - Excel or Access
• Proven mathematical reasoning and analytical skills
• Good problem analysis and determination skills
• Ability to establish and develop data capture and reporting systems
• Take decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people including Senior managers

Desirable

• Understanding of NHS data standards, data models and data flows
• Knowledge of mental health services

Employer details

Employer name

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Tolworth Hospital

Red Lion Rd

Tolworth

KT6 7QU

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