Data Analyst

We are seeking a talented Data Analyst to join NHS Professionals' rapidly expanding Data and Analytics team.

As a Data Analyst, you will play a crucial role in helping NHSP make better decisions by turning raw data into useful insights. This role involves applying various analytical tools including Power BI for interactive dashboards, SQL for database querying, and SSRS for comprehensive reporting to transform raw information into meaningful patterns and trends. You can leverage Azure services for cloud based data storage and processing while being responsible for identifying relevant data sources, collecting information from multiple systems, and ensuring data quality through cleaning and validation processes.

The position requires managing complex datasets by abstracting, aggregating, and manipulating information using SQL queries and Azure data services to conduct comprehensive analytical studies. You must skilfully link different data sources together and present the findings through Power BI visualizations, SSRS reports, and clear summaries tailored to the audience's needs. By utilizing these Microsoft business intelligence tools and cloud services, you can effectively communicate complex analytical conclusions in formats that enable stakeholders to understand key insights and make informed strategic decisions.

This role offers a hybrid working model, allowing you to split your time between home and the office with ad hoc in person team meetings at Hemel Hamstead.

• Contribute to statistical insights and reports using appropriate techniques under supervision.
• Follow QA standards; identify and resolve data quality issues to ensure datasets meet requirements.
• Facilitate and support discussions in multidisciplinary teams, managing challenging dynamics and representing the team externally when needed.
• Use project management tools/methodologies (e.g., Agile, Kanban, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence) suited to the environment.
• Apply data ethics and privacy principles under supervision; escalate identified risks appropriately.
• Comply with data governance policies on access, sharing, dissemination, and protection; support data management across services/products.
• Design simple analytical approaches and code, with clear documentation of methods and outputs.
• Create focused, accessible visualisations tailored to team goals and diverse user needs.
• Communicate with technical and non technical stakeholders, addressing questions and managing differing perspectives.
• Assist in planning reusable and reproducible data models and pipelines from appropriate sources.

In return for your commitment, we will offer you some fantastic benefits:

• Generous annual leave allowance - 27 days per year, plus bank holidays
• A commitment to talent management & development
• Values Star of the Month! - Our star of the month award enables you to recognise colleagues or teams that have gone the extra mile and they could win £100 worth of shopping vouchers
• Pension - We'll contribute up to 10% towards your pension if you join our stakeholder pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Wellbeing Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Engagement & discounts platform

About Us: NHS Professionals (NHSP) run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS Trusts to meet their short, medium and long term needs. Uniquely we are owned by the Department of Health and Social Care and we therefore reinvest any surplus we make directly back into the NHS.

We are particularly proud of being the first NHS organisation to gain the accreditation of Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute. This is a huge testament to our ongoing commitment to making NHSP a great place to work for all our corporate employees.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)

• To ensure we become an inclusive recruiter of choice, encompassing a fully diverse workforce, which truly reflects society
• To proactively embed the EDI agenda, in a meaningful way, in all that it does
• To ensure we create a psychological safe environment in which everyone can thrive and be at their best

We particularly welcome applications from people from minority groups and will provide support to ensure an equitable process.