Analytics Manager - HLCC in London

We are seeking an experienced and ambitious Clinical Analytics Manager to lead the development of longitudinal clinical datasets within the Heart, Lung and Critical Care (HLCC) Clinical Group at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. This role will spearhead a major programme of work to design, build and embed robust longitudinal datasets that bring together data across pathways, systems and time. These datasets will form the foundation for advanced clinical analytics, service transformation, research capability and data-driven decision‐making across the Clinical Group.

You will work closely with senior clinicians, operational leaders, academic partners and central analytics teams to ensure datasets are high quality, governed appropriately and aligned to strategic priorities. The post holder will lead on dataset architecture, validation, governance processes and the translation of complex data into meaningful insights that improve patient outcomes and reduce unwarranted variation.

Alongside this flagship longitudinal data programme, you will develop self‐service reporting solutions, strengthen data literacy across services, and manage analytical staff to build sustainable capability within the Group. This is an exciting opportunity for a senior analyst with strong SQL and data modelling expertise, excellent stakeholder engagement skills, and a passion for using data to drive clinical improvement at scale.

Main duties of the job

• Using a range of analytical and reporting software to bring together internal and external datasets to deliver insightful analysis and improvement opportunities to services across the Clinical Group.
• Working with directorate clinical leads to ensure that all clinical key performance indicators and strategic goals are tracked and met.
• Working with the central clinical analytics team to develop longitudinal datasets that will increase the analytics and research capability in the clinical group and across the trust including, but not limited to, a biobank dataset.
• Engaging with senior clinical and academic leadership in all directorates to prioritise and deliver dataset development with an aim to improve care, value and quality and facilitate data‐driven decision‐making across the Clinical Group.
• Elevate the overall clinical analytics and research capability of the Clinical Group and trust through proactively demonstrating self‐serve analytical tools both in Power BI and Epic.
• Ensure that all internal and external clinical analytics and research requirements are met whilst working closely with the clinical teams and the central Clinical Analytics team to ensure that the data delivered externally is recognised and agreed by teams internally.
• Proactively complete exploratory analysis and explore the findings with the relevant clinical and operational colleagues to enable/drive change and elevate data quality.

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world‐class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people. We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.

Job responsibilities

• To develop longitudinal clinical datasets and insights to support clinical analytics, research and decision making in transformation and improvement across the Clinical Group.
• To contribute to and help the smooth functioning of the governance around / access arrangements to longitudinal datasets.
• To increase data literacy across the clinical group and assist clinicians & researchers curation/design of longitudinal datasets and manage any improvement cycles thereafter.
• To evaluate and analyse highly complex and contentious issues using tested and credible tools, including expertise in analytic tools, benchmarking and sources of healthcare data.
• Use robust problem‐solving skills to find and understand root causes of problems and identify opportunities for improvement.
• To develop and implement continuous improvement clinical analytics projects across the clinical services supported. This will include managing projects from inception to completion and developing strategies for analytical transformation.
• To lead capability building around analytics within the Clinical Group by proactively sign‐posting and demonstrating tools.
• To lead and work with others to understand and track complex interdependencies between different initiatives and different parts of the organisation or sector.
• Responsible for leading the evaluation and redesign of core datasets and associated processes; facilitating collaborative working across organisational boundaries ensuring that the focus is on enhancing value, increasing data quality, and reducing waste.
• To determine key performance indicators and associated targets to enable easy tracking of deliverables and outcomes by working collaboratively with clinical leads and operational teams.
• Track and evaluate changes, measuring impact and progress against agreed and robust improvement metrics.
• Produce written documentation for a wide range of audiences. This will include project reports, communications, business cases, bids for funding and explanations of technical and complex issues. Make recommendations and present findings at all levels throughout the Trust including to senior clinical and management audiences.
• To meet predefined objectives through autonomous working and the demonstration of a leadership style that is consistent with the Trust values.

Person Specification

• Master's degree in informatics‐related discipline, or equivalent experience within the area of information management.
• Graduate with high level of numeracy.
• Experience of strategic analytics including development of new tools that support and drive change programmes.
• Experience of working with and influencing multiple stakeholders and securing their engagement in a significant and successful change initiative.
• Experience of project management in the design, development and implementation of change.
• Experience of working across multiple organisations or complex environments to secure change.
• Experience working with SQL to perform complex analysis and data transformation to build tables for wider analytical use.
• Experience using R or Python to perform predictive or complex analytics and PowerBI for data visualisation.
• Experience designing and building models within Excel or using modelling software.
• Advanced analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of complex statistical and numerical data.
• Advanced communication skills both written (complex report writing) and spoken, including expert facilitation skills.
• Make clear rational decisions, exercising independent judgement in a professional and competent manner.
• Experience using Snowflake/Databricks platforms.
• Skilled in data cleaning and database administration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.