Description
Higher Information Analyst - R/Shiny
London
contract
£250 per day inside ir35
Background
Healthcare is becoming increasingly data intensive, with a focus which spans patient-centred care, service improvement, quality assurance and research. The NHS England Five Year Forward View calls for the use of data and technology to transform outcomes for patients and the public; it highlights the need to give professionals, patients and carers access to all the data, information and knowledge they need to support this transformation. It also articulates the need to create comprehensive data on outcomes and value of services with a focus on supporting improvement and sustainability. In the research arena the move towards medicine which is predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory (P4Medicine) requires outstanding data resources.
Keystream Healthcare are looking to recruit to a Higher Information Analyst position into an Analytical Team, to perform statistical analyses on data from six national cardiovascular datasets. This includes analysis of data for annual clinical audit reports, consultant outcomes publication and quality improvement processes. The role will also include:
- development and validation of measures to compare the relative performance of cardiovascular units and/or hospitals
- development, maintenance and validation of mortality risk models and other outcome measures
- collaboration with researchers working on projects that involve analysis of research data.
The post holder will have the following specific responsibilities:
- Development of models for risk adjusted measures of process and outcome in cardiovascular disease
- Provision of analyses to the healthcare regulators (Care Quality Commission), NHS England etc.; the Professional Societies and Royal Colleges and public facing portals to inform patient choice.
- Perform statistical analyses on several large longitudinal cardiac audit datasets
- Perform linkage of the cardiac audit databases and analyses on the linked data.
- Ensure compliance with internal and national data security, information governance, Data Protection and Freedom of Information Act requirements.
- Implement and document a formal programme of data management process
- Develop data-cleaning processes in a team environment that promotes re-usability of code and standardisation of practices across the company audits.
- Perform statistical analyses on company data in response to queries from clinical audit leads, health care researchers, and the Government, under the supervision of the Principal Information Analyst.
- Contribute to the development of measures to monitor risk adjusted outcomes and identify outliers in cardiovascular units and deficiencies in cardiac service provision in collaboration with the Principal Information Analyst.
- Contribute to the development of tools for the measurement of individual and hospital performance
- Contribute to the preparation of company presentations and publications.
- Contribute to meetings, which will include presentation of data, analyses and proposals to internal and external stakeholders.
Essential skills:
Experience in analytical or statistical roles
Experience with R/Shiny