DATA ANALYST, CLINICAL DIVISION

PHSA Corporate
Vancouver, BC
In accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values, and strategic directions of PHSA safety, including both patient and employee safety, is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone at PHSA’s Agencies/Divisions/Services, and as such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.
The Clinical Division of BC Clinical and Support Services (BCCSS) includes the Agency for Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Agency) and the Provincial Blood Coordinating Office (PBCO). The Agency has been established to provide oversight and service planning for diagnostic lab services within the province. The Agency has a mandate to ensure that clinical laboratory diagnostics are quality driven, achieve excellent clinical outcomes, and remain sustainable by being provided effectively and efficiently. The PBCO has responsibility to provide and coordinate provincial blood and blood product utilization programs, and to manage specialized provincial resources.
Reporting to the Provincial Lead, the Data Analyst is responsible for producing information products for decision support. This includes: formulating the information requests; performing queries and data extraction from relevant databases, checking data quality; analysis and modelling; interpreting the data; preparing reports and visualizations; and presenting the information and findings for administrative and operational decision making. The Analyst is also responsible for checking for data quality throughout the continuum, statistical analysis, and generating routine and ad hoc reports for internal and external stakeholders including but not limited to BCCSS, the Ministry of Health (MoH), care providers in the BC Health Authorities, Canadian Blood Services, and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

WHAT WE DO

The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include: Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Create equity – Be courageous.
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PHSA is committed to anti-racism and equity in our hiring and employment practices. With learning and compassion, we are addressing existing inequities and barriers throughout our systems. PHSA is seeking to create a diverse workforce and to establish an inclusive and culturally safe environment. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and/or persistently excluded groups identified under the B.C. Human Rights Code.
One of PHSA’s North Star priorities is to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism, which includes ongoing commitments to Indigenous recruitment and employee experience as well as dismantling barriers to health care employment at every level. We welcome Indigenous individuals to apply and/or contact the Sanya’k̓ula Team (Indigenous Recruitment & Employee Experience) for support at indigenous.employment@phsa.ca.
Indigenous-specific anti-racism initiatives are rooted in addressing the unique forms of discrimination, historical and ongoing injustices, and exclusion faced by Indigenous peoples. These initiatives align with an Indigenous rights-based approach, recognizing the inherent rights and title of BC First Nations and self-determination of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. PHSA is mandated to uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents including the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.

• Receives and facilitates internal and external data requests for planning, policy making and research purposes by engaging with the stakeholders, understanding the information needs and reviewing data information requested.
• Performs the necessary analysis including: data extraction and queries; ensuring data quality (checking and cleaning); data manipulation, linkage and aggregation; and statistical analysis and modelling
• Produces information findings through regular and ad hoc reports and dashboards using business intelligence and reporting software. These information products may monitor and benchmark costs, utilization and other quality and performance indicators for transfusion medicine, laboratory medicine and pathology, and other clinical areas.
• Interprets these findings and provide advice and recommendations.
• Presents findings to different audience (ex: clinicians, operational staff, administrators and patients) at an appropriate level
• Provides support for the development and maintenance of data collections such as databases, spreadsheets, reports and other relevant applications.
• Write SQL and other programming code to perform queries and analysis.
• Provides statistical analyses and/or modeling for internal and external use such as time series, regressions, data mining and simulation model.
• Creates, implements and performs routine data quality reviews and audits on data registries and web applications.
• Utilizes reporting and business intelligence applications such as JReport and Tableau. This involves creating and adding new reports, users and groups to the system and ensuring a proper privilege framework is in place for all users.
• Provides day-to-day support working with database such as ad-hoc querying and providing periodic insertions of information submitted by partner agencies.
• Generates proper technical documentation on the current reporting environment and on all reports and data extracts.
• Performs other related duties as required.
• Working Relationships
• Communicates findings in a meaningful manner to internal staff and external stakeholders at the local, regional, provincial and national levels.
• Consults internal stakeholders to gather report specifications; identifies and provides advice to internal stakeholders about data limitations and ensures adequate data quality for analytical purposes.
• Participates in the preparation and presentation of educational material related to statistical data collection to internal and external stakeholders. Provides training to other internal staff as required.
• Leadership
• Not responsible for managing or overseeing a team.
• Provide advice and recommendations to leadership.
• Decision-Making
• Retrieves and extracts data, analyzes and summarizes statistical information, performs complex calculations and tallies.
• Understands and evaluates the limitations of the data, analyses and statistical calculations.
• Interprets the data and information, and its potential applicability.
• Propose alternative methods to obtain, extract and analyze data to improve data quality and decision support.
• Chooses the most appropriate method to disseminate findings (ex: reports, presentations, other visualizations).
• Budget
• No responsibility.