Analytical Support Assistant

at  NHS England

The Insights and Intelligence Team is an analytical service supporting NHS England by providing information, analysis and analytical support. We have an aim of ‘do once and automate’ wherever possible and therefore produce South West Regional products for use by the centre and locally. This approach reduces the analytical overhead enabling us to support local analysis where required and ensures consistency of reporting across the South West region.
This role is a key part of the Analytical Products Team. With support from other team members, this role will support delivering data, automation, and visualisation topics to support the region and ICSs with their analytical needs, as well as supporting others within the Analytical Products team. This role will often work as part of multi-disciplinary ‘squads’, made up of colleagues, both internal and external to the Insights and Intelligence team, to deliver on projects that require a range of skills and knowledge. In consideration of the national competency framework this role will most closely align to the Data analyst job family at Associate practitioner level. The specialisms expected to strongly feature within the Analytical Products team are data visualisation, Statistical process control (SPC), Technological specialisms, Data automation and Information governance.
This role is based in the Analytical Products work area. This team will provide the foundation of robust analysis allowing reliable insightful analysis by delivering data, automation, and visualisation expertise to the region and ICSs. It will support the delivery of improved data collection, quality & compliance, infrastructure and access across the SW through liaison with and support to ICB and provider teams. It will support the local implementation of national policy & standards across ICSs, including supporting the roll out and delivery of national data programmes.

Cleanse and manage data (including processing)
Quality assure data and analytical outputs following best practice guidelines
Integrate data feeds from disparate sources
Respond to incoming requests for information in a timely and efficient manner
Develop business intelligence reports
Plan, design, manage, execute and report tests, using appropriate tools and techniques
Be highly numerate and use a variety of analytical techniques to provide high quality, timely analysis and intelligence relating to key priorities
Be adaptable when finding analytical solutions to problems, to analyse and triangulate data in innovative ways and present findings clearly to a range of audiences
Log, analyse and manage problems in order to identify and implement the appropriate solution, ensuring that the problem is fixed.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
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