Welcome from our Chief Executive - Samantha Allen

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Samantha Allen

Chief Executive

Job overview

Do you have an analytical background with the desire to improve data quality?

Does a role in the NHS, supporting crucial mental health services motivate you?

We are recruiting for a Clinical Dataset Improvement Analyst to join us and provide specialist analytical oversight on our clinical datasets. This is a crucial role as our clinical datasets are essential for monitoring and improving our Mental Health Services.

In this role, you will be supporting the development of aggregate reporting to provide transparency of the data reported within the Trusts clinical datasets including activity, KPIs and service level performance information.

As the Clinical Dataset Improvement Analyst, you will be the lead for the analysis and quality assurance of the Trust's clinical datasets. You will be directly ensuring that high-quality data continues to drive investment and improvement for our Mental Health Services and always promotes the Trust's positive clinical performance.

This role sits within the Performance and Improvement team. You will be joining the team at an exciting time of development and expansion as we adapt and enhance our ways of working to meet the growing needs of the organisation for relevant, timely, accurate and clear data to inform and direct service development and improvements.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with the Digital Team, your key areas of focus in this role will be the development of an assurance process and reporting for the Trust's key dataset submissions, as well as planning and delivering improvements. This will include the thorough review and mapping of local and national data flows, translating complex technical guidance and the detailed analysis of nationally published indicators in order to establish appropriate governance and reporting on the Trust's dataset submissions.

You will be taking part in the reviewing and reporting of business rules applied to dataset submissions, as well as working with the Performance Business Partners to contribute towards standard operating processes.

You will also be required to build and maintain constructive relationships with various stakeholders, including colleagues across the wider healthcare system.

You will need to use your strong analytical background, attention to detail, a creative, solution-focused approach and motivation to constantly improve the way we work.

Working for our organisation

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key survey results:

• 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
• 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key survey results:

• 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team

77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Degree

Experience
Essential criteria

• NHS / Healthcare Experience
• Experience of using a range of analytical techniques on large data sources and triangulation of multiple, conflicting, data sources
• Experience of developing clear and engaging reports and dashboards suitable for a range of customers - visualisation
• Experience of undertaking complex analytical reporting and translating operational processes into meaningful data

Skills
Essential criteria

• Communication skills - translating complex technical processes to non-technical staff to influence decision making
• Relationship - building strong and effective working relationships with team members and key stakeholders
• Planning / organisation
• Excel/Access/ PowerBI/SQL

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.