The role is designed touse technical skills to develop a strong service delivery to provide analysisacross a diverse range of services.
In carrying out your role, at least one of theagreed strategic anchors should be at the core of everything you do:
- Commissioningfor Value and Outcomes
- AcceleratingNeighbourhood Health at Pace
- Makingthe Best Use of Digital Solutions in our Pathways
- Integrated Partnership
Main duties of the job
To support theoperational delivery of day to day reporting across the system, focusing onfinancial reporting, contracting monitoring, and performance analysis, including:
- Analyse utilisation of health and careresources at locality and neighbourhood level
- Benchmark published productivity data andICB/provider expenditure
- Provide a solid activity and costing data
- In year monitoring of financial performance,including ERF and other activity monitoring
- Provide provider and place-based performanceanalytics against national standards, constitutional targets, and locallycommissioned objectives
- Design, build andmaintain routine reports/dashboards (Power BI/Excel) for performance standards(RTT, A&E/UEC, diagnostics, cancer, mental health, primary care) to meetthe ICB delivery plans and NHSE/I assurance programmes
- Ensure reportingsolutions reflect current and future national standards and NHS datadefinitions
- Translate service priorities into analysisplans and measurable KPIs
- To support and lead onthe delivery of analytical solutions that support current and future businesstransformation programmes
- Responsible forReconciliation, Service evaluation and Planning
- Automate reportingpipelines; improve semantic layers and standard definitions. Implement proactivedata quality monitoring with automated notification.
- Work with Informationteams to develop business rules for automated data cleansing to ensure datasetsare available with optimum data quality
About us
Birmingham, theBlack Country and Solihull Integrated Care System bring together the NHS,councils and voluntary sector to serve 2.7 million people. Our vision is to bethe healthiest place to live and work, improving life chances and reducinginequalities.
You will modelsystem values, champion inclusion and actively address health inequalities,helping create an environment where everyone can thrive. In return, the Clusteroffers a supportive, ambitious and inclusive environment with opportunities todevelop and work across partners to deliver meaningful change.
The ICB is committedto having a workforce which is representative of the population of Birmingham,the Black Country, and Solihull Cluster. Our current staffing profiledemonstrates that we are not as representative as we would like to be at thislevel within the organisation. We would actively welcome applications fromwomen and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.
The ICB is registered as a Disability ConfidentEmployer. We actively welcomeapplications from applicants with a disability and commit to shortlisting allsuch suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria for an interview. Please let us know of any reasonableadjustments you require to participate in the recruitment process.
Job responsibilities
- Demonstrateeffective problem-solving skills and the ability to respond to suddenunexpected demands
- Demonstrateability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Take decisions ondifficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses ofaction.
- Demonstrate theability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- To support the operational delivery of day to day reporting across thesystem, focusing on financial reporting, contracting monitoring, andperformance analysis, including:
- Analyse utilisation of health and care resources at locality andneighbourhood level,
- Benchmark published productivity data and ICB/provider expenditure
- Provide a solid activity and costing data
- In year monitoring of financial performance, including ERF and otheractivity monitoring
- provide provider and place-based performance analytics against nationalstandards, constitutional targets, and locally commissioned objectives
- They will support on the delivery of complex evidence-based insightanalysis on the operation of the system. Translating service priorities intoanalysis plans and measurable KPIs, including health inequalities.
- Design, build and maintain routine reports/dashboards (Power BI/Excel)for performance standards (RTT, A&E/UEC, diagnostics, cancer, mentalhealth, primary care) to meet the ICB delivery plans and NHSE/I assuranceprogrammes.
- Conduct quality and peer review for analyst outputs both for their ownarea and across the team
- To promote analysis and evidence, ensuring that the work of the team isaccessible and perceived as valuable.
- To encourage system colleagues to draw on data, analysis and evidence insetting out and implementing their delivery plans. Engaging stakeholders torefine requirements and communicate insights clearly.
Please refer to the full job description attached
Person Specification Skills and Abilities
- Good working knowledge of Power Bi, Excel and Microsoft SQL Server. Experiencing in generating reports in a visualisation tool
- Experiencing in generating reports in a visualisation tool
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate withICS partners and Providers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Highlight difficult and controversial issues including performance and change to senior managers
- Putting the long-term health, social care and well-being needs of the population first (system first)
- Working collaboratively with other leaders to achieve
- excellence in everything we do
- Holding yourself and others to account for delivering better outcomes
- Being inclusive, supportive and empowering at all times
- Engaging and enabling those working towards the aims we have as a collective
Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of supporting project/ programme delivery.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the ICB/ICS and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Experience
- Demonstrate an understanding of datasets and data sources including the quality and reliability of the data.
- Experience of triangulating data from different sources and demonstrate an appreciation of the differences that might occur in large datasets.
- Good working knowledge with relevant analysis software including Microsoft Excel, Power BI, SQL Server or equivalent.
- Knowledge of specialist areas including health and service redesign acquired through degree or equivalent experience or training,
Personal Qualities
- You conduct yourself in a caring and considerate manner at all times.
- You are respectful to others and listen to others
- You operate with openness and honesty and ensure you are approachable in conducting your role
- Professionalism and understanding difference is key
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- A demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion with evidence of personal impact in these areas
Associate Director - Population Analytics
Birmingham & Solihull Integrated Care Board