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The Cancer Information and Audit Team, Ninewells Hospital
Cancer Information Analyst, Band 6
Fixed Term/Secondment for 12 Months – Full Time
NHS Tayside is seeking an experienced analyst to work on a fixed term/secondment basis within the Cancer Information & Audit Team. The Cancer Information Analyst will work closely with the Business Unit Team Manager and Cancer Information Lead, to provide a high quality cancer information service, designed to help optimise our performance across all of the work we do in NHS Tayside relating to cancer.
You will be required to consolidate, analyse and interrogate data held in disparate systems in order to review and improve reporting and insight into cancer services. You will be experienced in developing and managing complex information systems and datasets and processing large volumes of patient-based health data. You will help develop the existing cancer intelligence service, creating reports and models that are accessible and insightful to operational colleagues working in cancer waiting times, and Cancer Trackers.
You will support the development of analytical techniques to ensure NHS Tayside can meet all mandatory work as well as provide improved management information for assurance purposes, forecasting, hypothesis testing, QI and key drivers analysis. This role will also explore operational efficiencies by means of automation and use of BI tools, in the context of the continuing increase in demand on cancer services.
You will be the key person in the Cancer Information and Audit Team supporting the development and implementation of new cancer waiting times information systems and processes. This is a critical project required to provide near-time waiting times information to identify patient delays and backlogs in the system.
You will be required to achieve the mandatory Induction standards for Healthcare Support Workers in Scotland and to comply with the Code of Conduct throughout your employment.
Hours of work are: 37 Hrs Per week. Fixed Term/Secondment for 12 Months.
For informal discussion about this post, please contact Marie Davie, Cancer Team Manager 01382 660111 ext. 40036, marie.davie@nhs.scot. Or Tom Jarosz-Cromie, Business Unit Team Manager 01382 660111 ext. 33710, tom.jarosz-cromie@nhs.scot.
Current NHS Tayside Employees - Written approval must be sought from your line manager prior to applying for this secondment. You will be required to bring this if shortlisted for interview.
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