This role is part of the Business Analysis and Reporting team, which is undergoing transformation to integrate new technologies, including
Microsoft Power BI, into its reporting and analysis processes. The post-holder will work flexibly to support the Trust’s operational and corporate
teams, providing complex data analysis and performance reports to aid decision-making and business planning.
Key responsibilities include developing and delivering specialist reports, coordinating performance improvement projects, and advising services on meeting national and contractual standards. The role also involves ensuring data accuracy, presenting findings to senior management, and
supporting the development of the Trust’s business intelligence systems.
Frequent travel across the Trust may be required for meetings and operational support.
- Analyse data requirements, and extract data from multiple Trust systems. An expert knowledge of SQL will be required.
- Develop and test queries, and provide clear, concise reports on performance indicators.
- Produce and maintain regular reports on Trust performance, identifying areas of risk and recommending improvements.
- Support performance improvement projects, coordinating actions to meet national and contractual standards.
- Design and maintain performance dashboards and reporting processes to support decision-making across the Trust.
- Interpret complex performance data, present findings, and communicate performance targets to staff.
- Support operational managers and clinicians with accurate, timely information to meet performance targets, including CQC and
Commissioner targets.
- Lead on the development of health-related data sets and ensure reporting processes align with national/local policies.
- Supervise and coach Performance and Information Assistants, ensuring training and progress against objectives.
- Monitor and track performance improvements, reporting progress to stakeholders, and resolve any data quality issues.
- Develop policies and procedures to support performance improvement and compliance.
- Liaise with external agencies and maintain confidentiality in all interactions.
- Contribute to the introduction of new information systems and ensure appropriate reporting standards are in place.
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Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
Benefits
27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.
Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
£8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Work that wraps around your needs
Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.
1. To have a strong knowledge of systems used within the Information Team and be adaptable and able to learn about service or corporately
based information systems, and to be able to extract data from them and analyse it.
2. To extract complex data from multiple Trust systems, using multiple, querying methods and languages. An expert knowledge of SQL is essential
for this role.
3. To be responsible for production and development regular reports using appropriate query languages and software packages to analyse and
interpret Trust performance.
4. To provide clear and concise written and verbal reports on performance indicators to staff within the organisation, this will involve the
interpretation of data and the need to present complex and sometimes sensitive or contentious information in a clear and understandable format.
5. To work closely with operational services to improve areas of performance, communicating the need for change and giving a plan of how this is
to be achieved.
6. To understand and be able to explain to others performance targets, that may be highly complex and specialist in their nature and communicate
these in an understandable way to staff.
7. The post holder will support the coordination of Quality and Performance reporting to Trust Commissioners and of the Trustwide Quality and
Performance Report
8. To support the development and ongoing maintenance of performance dashboards which ensure the right information is available at the right
times at all levels of the organisation. This will include the technical development of dashboards
9. To support designated projects in relation to performance improvement, national and/or contractual requirements.
10. The post holder will identify methods of measurement for targets; milestones and timescales for all performance improvement projects, in
order to ensure an evidence based approach
11. To support operational managers and clinicians in the decision-making process by ensuring that the information generated by the team is
accurate, timely and ‘fit for purpose’.
12. To support operational managers and clinicians in the achievement of all performance related targets, including CQC targets and locally set
Commissioner and Local Authority targets
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13. To analyse and interpret a range of performance and business data, identifying areas of concern and presenting options for resolution of
concerns and improvement in service performance.
14. The post holder will track and monitor progress and report progress against identified measures on a regular basis to various stakeholder
groups.
15. To respond to adhoc questions and requests for reports, which may often have short deadlines, effectively, efficiently and professional ensuring
constant review of priorities and work allocation.
16. To support the Performance Improvement Managers in monitoring the performance of the organisation against all national and contractual
standards and identifying areas for improvement and the relevant remedial action(s).
17. The post holder will have regular contact with staff across the Trust and must always behave in an appropriate and polite manner, working
collaboratively and having the knowledge to know where the boundaries of confidentiality lie.
18. The post holder will demonstrate a flexible approach to testing new ideas, tools and techniques in order to ensure that the team is innovative
and able to continually refine their approaches to reflect and develop leading edge performance and business reporting systems and performance
improvement practice.
19. To assist with the introduction of new standards within services and to support the development and implementation of systems for compliance
and reporting.
20. To work with new services within the Trust, whether internally developed or acquired through a tendering process to ensure appropriate
systems are in place to record and monitor all relevant standards.
21. To monitor the effectiveness of performance improvement initiatives, identify key lessons learnt and ensure these are effectively
communicated to relevant groups.
22. To identify potential breaches of performance standards and take appropriate action to investigate and implement preventative measures.
23. Development of policies and procedures to support performance improvements and adherence to standards.
24. To identify data quality issues and to work with Information colleagues and operational services to identify and implement solutions.
25. To promote the corporate Information System as the principal source for data entry and analysis, working to improve data quality on corporate
systems where there is an obstacle to use this as the principal system.
26. Contribute to effective team working by transferring skills and knowledge to appropriate staff and ensuring that working procedures are
properly documented and maintained
27. To provide cover for colleagues in the Business Reporting Team during holidays, sickness etc. This may include attending meetings.
28. To participate in any other projects or trust activities that contribute to the organisations’ objectives of
providing high, quality care as directed by Line Manager and Service Director.
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