Senior Data Analyst

Are you passionate about driving forward changes in the NHS by obtaining hard numeric facts about the impact of innovations on the workforce?

The post holder will play a key role in the delivery of the Trust equality,diversity and inclusion ambitions by building a Workforce Data andIntelligence picture and support the overall strategy. Working across the EDI Team and the Workforce Systems & Intelligence Team, the post holder will have two key strands of work:

Responsibility for the co-ordination, collation and management of timely and accurate delivery of workforce intelligence relating to equality, diversity and inclusion including contributing to the analytical interpretation of the data to internal and external customers within an agreed timetable.

Co-ordination and management of projects in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion and wider workforce intelligence and data quality, supporting the better use of workforce systems internally by developing compliance monitoring systems in line with equality and diversity metrics.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will: • Lead and be responsible for the accurate, timely and intuitive provision of equality, diversity and inclusion workforce data and information across the Trust

• Lead on the creation and maintenance of EDI dashboards, supporting the measuring and effective communication of hard and soft EDI targets
• Responsible for ensuring the timely and accurate statutory returns such as WRES, WDES, Gender Pay Gap reporting and support the vision for accessible intersectional data and people intelligence
• Support the Associate Director of EDI in co-ordinating projects in relation to workforce information and ESR, establishing and measuring impact of programmes of work
• Plan, manage and implement defined projects, from initiation through to completion, in particular projects related to EDI - e.g. workforce planning, data quality improvement

About us

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Workforce information • Manage the accurate and timely delivery of regular and ad-hoc reports (e.g. FOIs)

• Actively manage the preparation and delivery of regular reports to agreed timescales, both internal (e.g. Data Matrix) and external (e.g. WRES/WDES) ensuring a high level of accuracy
• Assess customer requirements through discussions and provide suggestions for the most appropriate data and presentation formats to meet their needs
• Prepare and provide data and analysis for a number of forums including Boards. Data items may include recruitment, disciplinary, progression, turnover and staff in post information by protected characteristics
• Interrogate and analyse data and present these qualitatively and quantitatively
• Identify, within the workforce data, potential trends, issues and areas of interest for further investigation and progress these in line with departmental and Trust requirements
• Carry out benchmarking and external research and analysis of data to put our information in to context in relation to other Trusts and sectors
• Present information in user friendly and easy to understand formats which help customers interpret the data for decision making
• Support the development of reports and data for workforce planning and other strategic initiatives
• Ensure data governance protocols are followed when releasing data to customers (e.g. using passwords, ensuring sensitive data is excluded)
• Ensure information is prepared and quality checked before release to boards and customers
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of all current and potential information sources within (e.g. Bank system) and outside of the Trust (e.g. NHS iView)

Reports development • Develop reports for the team and other Trust users

• Collate and document feedbacks, issues and comments from users andmanagers and use these to investigate and develop sugge