[ref. f02076202] Senior Strategy Analyst
The post
-holder will have the following responsibilities aligned to seven key domains: leadership capabilities; staff development and wellbeing; programme management and delivery; strategic acumen; health sector knowledge and experience; technical skills; and relationships and stakeholder engagement: Leadership Capabilities Develop, present and communicate complex data and modelling to senior ICS stakeholders, the ICB strategy team, ICS programmes, borough-based partnerships, corporate function teams, and other networks across North West London.
Develop and ensure implementation and compliance of data and information strategies to enable the effective functioning of the ICB, in a changing environment, responding to both external and internal pressures.Provide information and detailed advice to influence organisational policy across different areas such as the ICS strategy, the joint forward plan, programme plans, functional strategies (e.g.
data and digital), and others.
Contribute to the development of a highly effective strategy team that is focused on developing high-quality strategies that support the ICBs and ICS key objectives.
Staff Development and Wellbeing Support, motivate and inspire team members, and invest time in two-way coaching.
Build effective relationships with colleagues at all levels through open communication and constructive feedback.
Help build a high-performing strategy team that is celebrated in terms of diversity, skill-set, experience, and expertise in the team.
Complete relevant EDI training and also undertake fair and objective recruitment training as appropriate.
Complete statutory and mandatory training required for this specific role, within the mandated timeframe.
Develop and continually refine career development objectives aligned to the responsibilities of the strategy team.
Programme Management and Delivery Working with the strategy team, the business intelligence team and the programme teams, identify and scope the strategic analytical tools required to support the development of the shared needs assessment, the ICS strategy, the five-year Joint Forward Plan and the programme plans.
Ensure alignment with the ICBs wider Data and Digital strategy and other ICS information strategies influencing the development of these as appropriate.Support programmes, borough-based partnerships, corporate functions and other key groups with strategic analysis.
Log work requests in a central BI system to ensure visibility of outstanding requests.
Prioritise tight and often conflicting deadlines with short-term and more involved, highly complex long-term tasks.
Work with relevant leads to develop a suite of KPIs, and associated targets and trajectories to track progress and support the ICS in the delivery of its four objectives.
KPIs should track productivity and value for money, impact on inequalities, care quality and access, and outcomes.
Monitor KPIs and help identify areas for improvement, escalating and identifying improvement initiatives as appropriate.
Manage risks, ensuring that appropriate mitigations are in place and risks escalated as necessary.
Strategic Acumen Identify and clearly articulate the analytical tasks that need to be completed to build the evidence required to develop each strategy.
Up-skill other teams as required through knowledge sharing.
Formulate clear, concise, and useful insights by collating, critically interrogating, and effectively combining large quantities of quantitative and qualitative information.
Support the financial responsibilities of the ICB through indirect approaches this includes supporting the strategy team in assessing the current value for money of services, assessing the appropriateness and effectiveness of spend across the system, and assessing the impact of potential changes to how money is spent.
Critically interrogate the validity, suitability and limitations of the evidence that is available to support the development of strategies.
Input into business cases with key pieces of analysis- to support investment, contracting and procuring for key services.
Support, as required, on the public consultation process for significant service change, providing input into pre-consultation business cases, decision-making business cases, impact assessments, consultation plans, etc.
Provide specialist advice and guidance (and hands-on input where required) across a range of strategic analysis areas including, but not limited to: Demand and capacity modelling Critically interpreting data, analysis, and other information.
Workforce analysis (e.g.spans and layers analysis) Operational improvement analysis Measuring productivity Benchmarking against statistical neighbours KPIs, targets and trajectories Health Sector Knowledge and Experience The post-holder will be required to inform, guide, directly contribute, or lead the following key activities: Research & development (R&D) by monitoring the performance of current services and understanding areas and drivers of under/over-performance.
Understanding the needs of the population and how it links to spend / resource.
Health economics analysis: Estimate the impact of proposed service changes on residents and patients against key health sector domains (e.g.
outcomes, care quality, access, patient experience, value for public monies, etc.) Contribute to the wider population health management agenda, the monitoring of inequalities, and the management of benefits.Build and maintain a repository of internal and publically available health sector datasets, in collaboration with other BI and analytics-focused colleagues across the ICS.
Be or become a subject matter expert on: WSIC (Whole Systems Integrated Care North West Londons current integrated database).
GP Information Systems (including SystmOne).Acute sector data sets including PbR, SUS, SLAM, ECDS, raw EPR data, theatre and outpatient clinic data, and referrals data.
Patient Level Information Costing (PLICs).
Data held by other provider types including referrals data, contacts data, etc.
Reference datasets such as ICD-10, OPCS, HRG and READ/SNOMED codes.
Population-wide datasets, including Office for National Statistics and Public Health England data.
NHS Model Hospital / Model System and other benchmarking repositories.
Technical Skills The post-holder is required to complete complex analyses and deliver clear insights to support the key messages in relevant strategies, reports, business case etc.
They will need to: Provide strategic analysis and interpret data to help the ICB / ICS clearly understand trends, challenges and opportunities.
Undertake analysis of highly complex and varied datasets, using advanced statistical techniques in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, specialist statistical software (such as R, Stata, Python), specialist simulation software (such as Simul8), VBA and SQL programming skills, and other tools Interrogate highly complex patient activity databases using Access, SQL and VBA.
Undertake ad-hoc analysis of highly complex and varied datasets upon request from the strategy team and other teams, often with little prior warning, under pressure to tight deadlines Develop analytical tools and templates for developing and delivering strategies.
More specifically, the senior strategy analyst role is required to: Structure data requests to organisations and teams across North West London.
Design and develop new information collection and reporting systems working with the BI team to ensure data sets can be processed and loaded for analytical use.Design, develop, deliver and explain forecast models covering activity, demand, capacity, workforce, finance, and health outcomes utilising best practice health economics methodologies.
Design, develop, deliver and explain other key analyses such as travel times, etc.
Analyse and link together complex datasets from multiple sources with often conflicting information.
Structure, build and deliver repeatable, user-friendly models in line with industry best practice, including robust error mitigation and quality assurance methods.
Document analytical methodologies, develop user guides, and deliver training.
Extract data from North West Londons existing databases.
Produce reports with clear, concise and simple insights to suit a range of audiences.
Scope, interpret and plan for analytical requests.
Relationships and Stakeholder Engagement Work closely with the head of strategy, strategy team members and senior BI colleagues within the ICB and across the ICS to advise on the use of data in decision-making, planning, performance managing and commissioning.
Work closely with the head of strategy and leads of programmes, borough-based partnerships, provider collaboratives, corporate functions, etc.to co-design and agree analytical products to feed into strategies and other reports.
Develop a coordinated and supportive approach across the various teams to ensure all the strategy work of the ICB and ICS is founded on robust analytical evidence informing and upskilling key stakeholders on the potential analyses and insights that can be developed.
Work corporately to support the organisations strategy, population health and BI functions.
Personal Values Highly motivated- prioritise, plan for and complete tasks proactively, with minimal supervision.
Passionate about improving healthcare services and outcomes for the residents of NWL.
Promote an open, collaborative, and effective working culture that embraces diversity of thought and debate.Uphold high standards for quality, accuracy, and clarity of message.
Organisational Values: Inequalities Ensure strategies, plans and services are developed and provided in a way that provides equal access and care for all our residents.
Promote co-production approaches where residents views actively shape service and care provision and drive measurable transformation for residents.