Data Analyst | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £30,279 - £33,116 p.a. inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EU |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6338698/196-AC411 |
Summary
Responsible for providing an efficient, high quality data entry and clerical support to data team within the department under the supervision the Data Manager and Audit Leads.
• The post holder will assist in the collection, verification, analysis and validation and data entry of all data submission requirements for national bodies (such as NICOR and The Vascular Society) within the Cardiovascular Directorate, ensuring accuracy at all times.
• Facilitate and manage the collation of data for the monthly department Audit meetings and assist in the analysis of data for such meetings.
• Work with the Kings Health Partnership within Guys and St. Thomas’ NHS Trust and Kings College Hospital NHS Trust
• Handle sensitive information and must maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Support the implementation of the Directorate’s ‘Assuring Clinical Outcomes’ policy as part of its Clinical Governance Strategy.
• Assist in developing and maintaining a comprehensive database of all cardiovascular patients for the provision of clinical audit.
Please Note: Vacancy may close early due to high numbers of applications
· Under the supervision of the cardiovascular audit leads collect, validate and submit data on all heart failure patients to NICOR, liaising with medical staff, theatres and wards to ensure completion of all data on all patients.
· To work as a member of the Cardiovascular Data team, reporting to theCardiovascular QIPS Managerand providing cross cover when required.
· Work with Heart Failure, MINAP, SCTS, EPS, TAVI, Vascular and Intervention Teams to collate, verify and accurately enter patient data on the national databases (NICOR, NVR)
· Consistently and reliably meet monthly deadlines.
· Communicate data collection and validation requirements to staff within the directorate
· Review agreed data sets each week and inform the relevant staff of missing data
· Assist the department in other data requests or collection of information such as local audits
· Ensure that national data entry deadlines are met in a timely manner so that the trust is fully compliant
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners, an academic health sciences centre, and pioneers in health research, and providing high quality teaching and education. This partnership helps provide the latest treatments alongside the best possible care.
The Cardiovascular Data Team is part of the Heart, Lung and Critical Care Group. The team work closely with our clinical group colleagues as well as across directorates.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities.
IT and Information Resources
· Under the supervision of the audit lead to assist in monitoring and reporting requirements of the department to National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) via data collection and collation including the Annual Report and ad hoc reporting requirements.
· To identify and prepare relevant and timely data for Cardiovascular and Kings Health Partnership audit meetings and Clinical Audit Group Meetings.
· To write reports for data extraction from directorate databases for research and audit purposes with the agreement of the audit lead.
· To export reports to excel and access for further interrogation of data.
· To identify, prepare and analyse data for retrospective and prospective audit and research studies.
· To attend regular directorate and Trust audit meetings and present an overview of current data problems.
· To perform data analysis to identify outcome data and to use these analyses to advise the Cardiovascular Department and Kings Health Partnership on adverse variances so that appropriate further investigation may take place.
· To work with the Audit Lead to monitor clinical outcomes where aberrant trends exist
· To undertake data analysis when required, presenting and interpreting the results.
Research and Development
· To work with the lead consultant for audit to identify new data collection, validation and presentation requirements.
· To assist the Clinical Governance Lead in Cardiovascular Services in monitoring the progress of the implementation of audit recommendations in the service. This will be through the production of quarterly audit reports, showing targets and milestones within the NSF, the directorate’s performances against them and highlight areas of shortfall.
These duties and responsibilities are not a complete list and the post holder should be prepared to take on any additional work needed by the department.
This advert closes on Monday 10 Jun 2024