Head of Analytics, Measurement

**Interview date**

19/09/2023
- The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
**Please not that this vacancy is for Advancing Quality Alliance (Aqua) and will be based at Crossgate House in Sale and not for Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust in Salford**

We are looking for an articulate and questioning individual with excellent customer focused communication skills to lead the delivery of Aqua’s evaluation, analysis and measurement offer to members and customers. A great opportunity for technical specialists to move into a senior management role and further develop a customer focused approach.

Combining high level senior management experience with complex technical and specialist skills and a passion for improving health and social care services we are seeking someone with the aptitude to manage a diverse programme of work for our members and across our expanding customer base.

**Main duties of the job**:
You will use your specialist, in-depth knowledge and experience to lead Aqua’s analysis and evaluation delivery including:

- business intelligence support to Aqua’s successful Advancing Quality Programme
- our consultancy delivery for analytics and evaluation
- improving the management and use of data internally
- our Measurement for Improvement training and resources
- identifying new opportunities for products and or services

You will achieve this by engaging clinicians, leaders and evaluation partners to develop meaningful, robust and feasible analysis and evaluations for a range of healthcare improvement projects, programmes and interventions.

Providing senior leadership and direction for the team, you will implement systems and processes to ensure best practices in approach and operation deliver high quality outputs to meet customer expectation. This will include leading on disseminating learning; communicating data and findings to a range of audiences through presentations and reports.

**Working for our organisation**:
Aqua (Advancing Quality Alliance) is a quality improvement organisation, working with the NHS, care providers and local authorities to identify, refine and embed sustainable strategies for high-quality care and regulatory excellence.

Established in 2010, we operate as a membership and consultancy organisation within the NHS, providing quality improvement expertise, specialist learning and development across the UK.

We develop tailored, efficient solutions, informed by data and co-designed with service users to deliver maximum impact.

At Aqua we seek to ensure we reflect the world in which we live in through understanding and supporting equality and diversity in all that we do. Our values of excellence, Respect, Integrity and collaboration are at the heart of our work in support of our staff and members.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications & Registration**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline

**Desirable criteria**:

- Post graduate (or working towards) qualification in relevant discipline, with a research/ evaluation/ analysis element

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of undertaking data analysis, measurement and evaluation on a range of topics that pull together multiple sources of information to draw evidenced conclusions about quality and performance issues.

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- To have expert specialist knowledge in the field of healthcare information underpinned by theory and experience.
- Knowledge and experience of NHS datasets and Information Governance.

**Desirable criteria**:

- Knowledge of specific evaluation methodologies used in healthcare Quality Improvement, such as Rapid Cycle, Realist Evaluation, Health Economics

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Excellent report writing skills with evidence of delivering high impact reporting to a range of audiences

**Desirable criteria**:

- Highly motivated, proactive and innovative with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines and motivate diverse teams
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and al