Data Analyst - Red Cell Immunohaematology (RCI)
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
- Gathering data from a variety of sources, producing analysis and recommendations.
- Managing a portfolio of scheduled and ad hoc reporting tasks, including weekly, monthly, and quarterly outputs.
- Reporting of trends to support strategic planning, service improvement and business growth.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.
Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference- Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.
You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Benefits
- NHSBT promotes flexible working opportunities.
- Annual leave: 27 days pro rata for part time, 29 days after 5 years' service and 33 days after 10 years, plus bank holidays.
- NHS pension scheme - a defined benefit scheme. Further details and outline of benefits can be found at .
- We foster a culture of continuous learning, offering a wide range of activities to support your personal and professional growth. The Thrive programme embodies our commitment to learning and development and is open to everyone at NHSBT.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential
- 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.
- Post Graduate qualification in a statistical or numerate discipline or significant demonstrable experience equivalent to post graduate level.
- Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD).
Experience Essential
- 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.
- Demonstrable experience of working with budgets and the use of financial/activity information to support the management of services.
- Experience of producing analysis and identifying trends from large quantities of complex and often conflicting data.
- Experience of developing/assisting with the creation of strategic plans / business cases.
- Experience of working in the delivery of projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience in providing training to others on an area of specialism.
- Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).
Employer details Employer name
NHS Blood and Transplant
Address
NHSBT - Filton
500 North Bristol Park
Bristol
BS34 7QH
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