Information Analyst

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is "Working together to provide outstanding care for our community."

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated 'Good' with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust's overall rating has also improved to 'good'.

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At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we value candidates who bring their unique personalities, skills, and experiences to the Trust. When completing your application, we encourage you to highlight your individual achievements and strengths, showing us how they align with the requirements outlined in the job description and person specification. While we recognise that some applicants may use AI tools during the process, please be mindful that AI-generated responses can often lack the personal detail and relevance needed to demonstrate your suitability for the role. AI generated content is discouraged by the Trust and may diminish the candidates chances of success.

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don't you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical., The Senior Information Analyst is a key member of the Digital Data & Technology (DDaT) Operations team, adding value for our patients through improving and developing information services across the Trust and wider health and care system.

Ensure the information is an effective component of the Trust's Digital Data & Technology (DDaT) target operating model, working alongside others, delivering continuous overall improvement.

This role is part of supporting the 'engine room' of DDaT operations, transitioning from outsourced arrangements to an in-house delivery model.

The post holder will support the Informatics Team Lead to ensure that the information team is able to successfully deliver on its service level requirements, working to transform trust data into timely accurate information.

The post holder will provide insight and business intelligence to support defined areas of operational delivery across the organisation. The post holder will ensure that information services deliver for the overall Trust vision.

They will ensure that essential systems, applications, infrastructure and information are enabled and managed with a consistent, expert and professional team, appropriate governance, structures, stakeholder buy-in, and supporting technology., * Support the business intelligence and information function to drive strategic decision-making to support the achievement of Trust and System objectives across the following areas; Statistics and planning, Benchmarking and Care Quality, Performance and Quality, Finance and Income Reporting, Activity and Cost, Operational Efficiency and Reporting.

• Guide and enhance operational teams' understanding of the intelligence and insights provided, supporting the informatics lead and principal analysts to work alongside clinicians and operational teams to understand their pressures and enable data to drive supportive action.
• Support clinicians and managers in their use and interpretation of information and promote a culture of good data quality and effective use of information.
• Gain & maintain full working knowledge of the Trust's information systems, ensuring at all times that any changes which may impact on specific analyses are incorporated.
• Produce & maintain routine information content using Trust information systems to meet Trust and NHS requirements and deadlines
• Liaise with Trust information users to understand their requirements, and to evaluate and advise them on an appropriate analysis and presentation.
• Work closely with other colleagues ensuring triangulation between activity, finance, and workforce plans.
• Interpret national policy, and lead the assessment of the impacts locally (in terms of activity, and performance)., * Guide and enhance operational teams' understanding of the intelligence and insights provided, supporting the informatics lead and principal analysts to work alongside clinicians and operational teams to understand their pressures and enable data to drive supportive action.
• Support clinicians and managers in their use and interpretation of information and promote a culture of good data quality and effective use of information.
• Gain & maintain full working knowledge of the Trust's information systems, ensuring at all times that any changes which may impact on specific analyses are incorporated.
• Gain and maintain an in-depth knowledge of the full RBH data model.
• Gain and maintain full working knowledge of in-house programming and presentational standards.
• Produce & maintain routine information content using Trust information systems to meet Trust and NHS requirements and deadlines
• Liaise with Trust information users to understand their requirements, and to evaluate and advise them on an appropriate analysis and presentation.
• Work closely with other colleagues ensuring triangulation between activity, finance, and workforce plans.
• Interpret national policy, and lead the assessment of the impacts locally (in terms of activity, and performance).
• Support the team's contribution to integrated performance reports, published as part of the established working groups, meetings, committees up to and including the Trust Board and system oversight.
• Take a pro-active approach to identifying patterns and signals in data sets and distilling actionable information for clinicians and operational teams.
• Take a holistic approach to ensure design, development and delivery of analytics and business intelligence in an innovative and meaningful way. Utilise BI tools (e.g. SQL, Power BI, Qlik Sense and R) to deliver analytics and intelligence ensuring all data products are delivered to best practice.
• Provide analytical support to transformation programmes of work or pathway initiatives.
• Communicate within the Trust and across the health and care system on matters which are often highly sensitive, complex, and contentious in nature, relating to service improvement and reconfiguration where there will frequently be resistance to change. To support data-drive decision making by positively challenging consensus when insight conflicts with expected or preferred outcomes.

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Masters level degree or equivalent experience in a related subject
• Proficient user of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio
• Commitment and willingness to undertake on-going training and development

Desirable criteria

• NHS relevant Management qualification (e.g. inspirational leaders' course, Kings Fund Management course), * Comprehensive experience of information management, including informatics, BI, analysis, manipulating large data sets
• High level of Proficiency in BI Tools; SQL, Power BI, R
• Proven Ability to translate business requirements into delivered solutions
• Proven experience of applying methods and techniques for reporting progress and compliance against an agreed plan and business objectives to a range of senior managers
• Demonstrable ability to identify, plan and coordinate a set of related actions within a programme of business change and manage complex and multiple interdependencies in support of specific business strategies within a clinical IT environment to the successful achievement of planned business benefits
• Demonstrable experience of involvement in the creation and presentation of business cases

Desirable criteria

• Information management experience gained in both an Acute and Community setting, * Able to maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders
• Able to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders and secure cooperation with colleagues, verbally and in writing
• Able to present complex information to staff with limited technical knowledge, and differing levels of understanding and seniority
• Ability to provide information reporting to a high standard
• Able to work independently and without supervision and be responsible for own workload, assuring agreed objectives are met
• Able to work under pressure with externally defined schedules, changing priorities and a complex and political agenda

We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

Staff Benefits

• Flexible working opportunities and a strong emphasis on your work, life balance
• Annual leave - 27 days for new starters, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years NHS service. Pro rata for part time staff
• NHS pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Money Advice Service
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave for eligible staff
• On-site nursery (based at RBH)
• Full educational library services
• Cycle to work scheme, lockable storage for cycles
• Bus to work scheme
• Excellent rail and bus links
• A huge range of Health Service Discounts at hundreds of big brands from holidays to gadgets and restaurants to retail.

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