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Data Information Manager | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,488 - £57,802 p.a inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 July 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6412555/196-COF10274-S |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for aData Analystto work within a dynamic, supportive and multi-disciplinary team.
The successful post holder will play a key role in providing the necessary analysis to inform the development and improvement of clinical care, and the resulting operational and financial impact.
The applicant will be involved in discussions with operational and clinical colleagues from project scoping through to embedding new ways of working as business as usual. The analysis provided will be vital in targeting efforts at the right areas to deliver the greatest service improvements and therefore a close working relationship with the clinical teams will be needed to understand how the different services operate.
The Data Information Manager provides service improvement expertise via the provision of data and data analytics and supports a wide range of transformation projects across the Trust. This role will be directly aligned with the Critical Care unit and will play a key role in undertaking service diagnostics and working with clients to formulate recommendations for change. They also devise, plan and manage improvement projects, working closely with both clinical and non-clinical services to achieve and evaluate improvements.
• Implementing audit project work within Critical Care in conjunction with clinical teams and managing audit workload. Data primarily relating, but not limited to:• Acuity and intervention
• Severity of illness
• Bed utilization and patient flow
• Care process (Care bundles)
• Incident and risk management
• Clinical practice
• Costing and Finance
• Supporting the development of the Critical Care Informatics/Audit/QI strategy to ensure capture of relevant and useful data. Including, but not limited to, the ongoing development of the Critical Care Minimum Dataset (CCMDS) data collection; to be used in conjunction with Healthcare Resources Groups (HRGs)
• Responsible for collection, analysis, interpretation, reporting of varied datasets, including validation of raw and processed data. These processes require expertise in understanding complex and specialized technical and clinical issues
• Create and maintain database objects in line with department standards.
• Ensure that changes to applications are documented and communicated.
• To assist clinical and managerial staff in identifying clinical and administrative concerns and priorities
· Attend Departmental/Trust Meetings that facilitate Audit/QI and Informatics developments/work streams, including representing clinical Audit, QI and Informatics Leads if required
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
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.
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.
Key Relationships
· Clinical Lead Informatics/Audit & QI, Critical Care Health Informatics Nurse and Critical Care Audit Team, Data Managers
· Matrons, Service General Manager, Service Delivery Manager, Consultants and Junior Medical Staff, Nursing Staff, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Allied Health Professionals, Administrative and Clerical Support Staff,
Duties and Responsibilities
Data Management
• Within all appropriate areas the post holder must demonstrate the ability to work independently at their own discretion, within a set of defined parameters.
• Implementing audit project work within Critical Care in conjunction with clinical teams and managing audit workload. Data primarily relating, but not limited to:• Acuity and intervention
• Severity of illness
• Bed utilization and patient flow
• Care process (Care bundles)
• Incident and risk management
• Clinical practice
• Costing and Finance
• Supporting the development of the Critical Care Informatics/Audit/QI strategy to ensure capture of relevant and useful data. Including, but not limited to, the ongoing development of the Critical Care Minimum Dataset (CCMDS) data collection; to be used in conjunction with Healthcare Resources Groups (HRGs)
• Responsible for collection, analysis, interpretation, reporting of varied datasets, including validation of raw and processed data. These processes require expertise in understanding complex and specialized technical and clinical issues
• Be able to understand the importance of data validation and set clear methods to implement and monitor validation of a wide variety of complex datasets
• A clear understanding of GDPR in its relationship to the use of confidential and sensitive information utilised during audit processing, and to propagate that understanding to other colleagues in all elements of the role
• The ability to create efficient queries, functions and stored procedures inT-SQL to extract, process and visualize data from large and complex SQL Server databases.
Database/Software Development
• The post holder will be expected to create and maintain Critical Care/Trust applications using but not limited to Visual Studio 2017/2019, Angular.IO, Node, WebAPI. Python, R and other tools.
• The post holder will be expected to create and maintain SSIS packages, SSRS development, SSAS development, Power BI & QlikView dashboards and other Business Intelligence as technology evolves.
• Create and maintain database objects in line with department standards.
• Ensure that changes to applications are documented and communicated.
• To support the development of process improvement projects and for service developments within the department and directorate
• The post holder must be able to demonstrate the ability to utilise their clinical knowledge in either designing or assisting with the design of databases utilised to collect clinical data
Administrative
• To assist clinical and managerial staff in identifying clinical and administrative concerns and priorities
· Attend Departmental/Trust Meetings that facilitate Audit/QI and Informatics developments/work streams, including representing clinical Audit, QI and Informatics Leads if required
• As appropriate representing Informatics Group/Lead at Departmental/Trust and Executive Meetings
4.1.4 Systems
• The post holder must demonstrate/attain an in depth knowledge of the Computerised Information System (Epic) currently used within the Critical Care environment as well as legacy systems (Phillips ICCA/ICIP) PIMS, EPR, BizTalk, Health Connect, Health Catalyst, at a technical level.
Human Resources Issues
• Be responsible for the allocation of an appropriate workload to any individual directly line managed (if applicable)
• Manage personal issues/problems following policy guidelines e.g. sickness, absence, disciplinary etc. to any individual directly line managed (if applicable)
Education Role Issues
• Assist with training of team wider departmental members in software development, data processing and visualization tools.
• The role may at times incorporate roles including staff teaching and training, clinical support and system support, which will involve an on call rota system.
Clinical Issues
• Demonstrates specialist knowledge of work procedures and practices in Critical Care, underpinned by theory, evidence based research and extensive practical experience and apply those skills during the analysis of data to ensure that reports and data
• To keep abreast of national and international data, technology and audit developments as they may pertain to the Department , Trust and wider NHS
• To work in collaboration with Clinical staff to promote a high standard of work in line with Department and Trust values.
• Make recommendations where necessary based on clinical knowledge to utilize data for the improvement of patient care.
• To support Clinical staff in promoting multi-specialty and multi-disciplinary projects
• To promote a high standard of documentation - identifying and escalating where necessary.
This advert closes on Thursday 4 Jul 2024