Job Summary
This is a great opportunity to work in NHS Blood Transplant as a Data Analyst with the Red Cell Immunohaematology (RCI) function, a national reference service supporting the safe and clinically effective use of red cells and other blood components. You will provide Data analysis expert advice to RCI Management and other stakeholders NHSBT. As part of the RCI management team, you will provide expert data analysis, interpretation, and reporting to inform operational and strategic decision-making across the service. Your analytical insight will support workforce planning, quality improvement, and service development, ensuring RCI remains a recognised centre of excellence in reference transfusion science.
Your organisational and leadership skills will ensure the transfusion service continues to deliver a cost effective and responsive service to patients and users of the service. NHSBT will offer training and development opportunities to maintain and enhance your personal development.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will be a Data Analyst responsible for the analysis of business performance data. Responsibilities include:
1. Gathering data from a variety of sources, producing analysis and recommendations.
2. Managing a portfolio of scheduled and ad hoc reporting tasks, including weekly, monthly, and quarterly outputs.
3. Reporting of trends to support strategic planning, service improvement and business growth.
4. Supporting the Assistant Director of RCI, members of the Senior Management Team and the wider function to achieve challenging performance and growth targets with a focus on improving efficiency/productivity of the function.
5. Supporting the delivery of the RCI strategic plan by ensuring that insight from data is aligned with business objectives, that performance is monitored across all sites, and that data is used to inform improvements, operational planning, and stakeholder engagement.
6. Leading and contributing to data-driven workstreams, such as performance reporting, benchmarking, forecasting and dashboard development, ensuring that they are of the highest professional standards and compliant with all relevant internal and external standards, regulation and instructions.
You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice
About You
Experience and Knowledge
7. Demonstrate experience in the use of analytical, reporting and statistical software e.g. Power BI, R, SAS, SPSS, S+, Microsoft Access, Excel, SQL server and Business objects.
8. Demonstrable experience of working with budgets and the use of financial/activity information to support the management of services.
9. Experience of producing analysis and identifying trends from large quantities of complex and often conflicting data.
10. Experience of developing/assisting with the creation of strategic plans / business cases.
11. Experience of working in the delivery of projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
12. Experience in providing training to others on an area of specialism.
13. Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).
Qualifications and Training
14. Educated to degree level in a relevant subject (e.g. data science, statistics, health informatics) or equivalent level qualification OR demonstrable work-based experience in a range of procedures and practices in the specialism to degree level.
15. Post Graduate qualification in statistical or numerate discipline or significant demonstrable experience equivalent to post graduate level.
16. Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD)