Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services. Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients. In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research. We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’. The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients. We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS. Job overview The Business Intelligence (BI) team within the Integrated Specialist Medicine Clinical Group at GSTT provides highly valuable analytical support to the service teams within the clinical group. Our work provides insights that enable our operational colleagues to make informed decisions about their service management. We are seeking an experienced analyst with strong statistical knowledge to cover a secondment position until 31st March 2025 initially. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate interesting analytical responses to service needs and innovative design ideas to present them. The post holder will be responsible for: Main duties of the job Being a core member of the ISM Business Intelligence team, ensuring high-quality analytical outputs to support operational colleagues understand and interpret their data effectively: Liaising with key stakeholders to understand their business needs and operational workflows. Becoming expert in the relevant data flows and data structures in the data warehouse. This will require ability with SQL server. Designing, building and presenting visualisations to respond to service needs. This will require ability with Power BI. Using appropriate analytical methods and tools to best support the service needs. Working with the appropriate stakeholders within and outside the clinical group such as the Trust Health Informatics team to improve data quality and processes. Supporting other BI colleagues with regular tasks and ad hoc data requests. Working for our organisation As an organisation, we are committed to ensuring our staff feel valued and have the support they need. We know that healthier, happier colleagues provide even better, safer care to our patients. Trust Values: Put patients first Take pride in what we do Respect others Strive to be the best Act with integrity Detailed job description and main responsibilities Analysis and judgement Identify most appropriate analytical method for the task Apply effective statistical understanding of the outputs and next steps Highlight areas to be called out, including data quality concerns Applying stringent assurance checks to ensure quality of outputs Regular Reporting Automate routine tasks where possible Assist service colleagues with their regular data submissions where required Communication Maintain regular communication with service colleagues and and other stakeholders Interpret and understand the business needs to identify the most appropriate response Assist colleagues to understand and effectively interpret the data and visualisations For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Graduate with high level of numeracy Educated to Master’s Degree level or equivalent experience in data analysis Experience Essential criteria Collate, analyse and interpret complex datasets with the proven ability to apply and explain complex analytical methods to non-analytical people Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders Identify underlying issues by analysing information and finding effective solutions Extensive experience of analysing complex datasets effectively in a variety of settings Experience of working with and combining data contained within different data sources Desirable criteria Knowledge of NHS data including its structure, definitions and relationship to clinical activity recording Developing dashboards using Power BI Experience of managing clinical data. Skills Essential criteria Robust and systematic problem-solving skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to adapt style and approach for a wide range of audiences and situations. MS Excel (Advanced level) Robust and systematic problem-solving skills Excellent listening and interpretation skills: able to gather and incorporate the views of staff and service users into a change process. Desirable criteria Good understanding of general statistical modelling Usage of DAX within Power BI Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership. Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy. As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. Flexible working We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process. Your e-mail address is important to us - We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis. Please apply for this post by clicking "Apply Online Now." Further details / informal visits contact Name Hankook Kim Job title Senior Analytics Manager Email address [email protected]