Analytics Specialist

1. Manage their own day-to-day activities including: Working as part of a team of analytics specialists to manage the requests service. Triaging, prioritising, and delegating requests. Be the lead analyst assigned to support key improvement groups across the trust. Providing analytical insight and guidance to aid complex decision making. Designing and producing Tableau dashboards and statistical reports, incorporating data science tools and techniques, where appropriate. Presenting findings and analytical products to a wide range of audiences (technical and non-technical), including methodologies and recommendations where appropriate Identifying the most applicable techniques and variables to meet the customers needs, investigating conflicting information. Investigating outliers and data quality issues. Generate data quality reports and advise on the implications of poor data quality. Completing project documentation and delivering projects to agreed specifications.

2. Recommend and lead on delivering improvements in reporting, software, or other systems. Particularly where the improvements contribute to the performance of the system or accuracy of data.3. Be an expert in the trusts reporting requirements and support this function. Identify and lead on opportunities to improve efficiency and accuracy of reporting.4. Lead on key projects with data engineering to improve the data repository, escalating where changes may impact on analyst products.5. Post holder must be adept at researching and understanding complex, multi-departmental clinical data flows.6. Test own work and peer-review team members work.

7. Prioritise and plan own work appropriately.

8. Explore and stay up to date with various analytics techniques, advising on those optimal for the purpose and to improve own work area.

9. Contact customers and digital colleagues, dealing with issues associated with access to data. Deliver bad news to customers, when necessary, such as delays in provision of data; suggest alternative approaches; provide support to reduce data quality issues. Be point of escalation for concerns.10. Act as expert at understanding problems and utilising various software to provide data insight tools using appropriate analytical techniques.11. With exceptional attention to detail, help ensure high quality and efficient new processes are implemented to help improve CODU functions.12. Work closely with other teams in digital services (software development, data engineering) to understand cross over in work streams, and potential implications.13. Be continuously aware of changes to working practices for colleagues across the trust. Ensure that products are amended to reflect these changes and meet expectations of stakeholders.14. The post holder will be responsible for the direct day to day line management of analysts and senior analysts.

15. Demonstrates the agreed set of values and accountable for own attitude and behaviour.

The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, looking after more than 64,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 25% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We are the largest radiotherapy provider in the NHS with one in 20 treatments delivered at The Christie. We have up to 15 linear accelerators operating across our network of sites. We operate the largest chemotherapy unit in the UK on our main site and treatments are also provided at 13 other networked sites, and in patients homes. And as a specialist tertiary surgical centre, we focus on rare cancers, complex procedures, and multidisciplinary approaches to cancer surgery, specialising in colorectal, peritoneal, gynaecological, urological and plastic surgery.

We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We have been named by the UK's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), as one of the best hospitals providing opportunities for patients to participate in clinical research studies, with more than 800 studies open at any time, caring for over 3,000 patients.

Qualifications

Desirable: - Database / dataflow / reporting practitioner certificates, e.g. SQL, Microsoft server tools etc.; - PRINCE 2 Foundation or equivalent project management

Experience

Desirable: - NHS experience involving close working relationships with senior managers, clinicians and multidisciplinary environment; - Project management experience

Skills

Desirable: - Advanced Tableau skills Programming skills eg Python, R.

Knowledge

Essential: - Relational Databases; - Knowledge of information governance policies and ensuring these are adhered to.

Desirable: - In depth knowledge of NHS data definitions

Values

Essential: - Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours

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