This occupation is present in a spread of organisations all through the well being and social care sector. The sector contains organisations which examine the well being of populations, plan, fee, handle, ship, monitor and consider well being and social care insurance policies and companies. The organisational settings vary from central authorities departments and arms-length our bodies by way of to particular person NHS organisations and native authorities. Group Curiosity Corporations and Educational Well being Science Networks might also make use of individuals on this occupation.. The broad objective of the occupation is to take knowledge on particular person or inhabitants well being and use of companies and different types of proof resembling scientific publications and proof critiques and switch it into well being and care intelligence such that it has influence on determination makers throughout the well being and care system and informs and influences their selections, main in the end to improved inhabitants well being and higher affected person outcomes and experiences. Folks within the occupation are concerned within the planning, implementation and analysis of well being and care companies. As a way to do that, they’ve to gather particular well being and care knowledge or work with those who acquire well being and care knowledge to make sure that they can be utilized for these functions in addition to for direct scientific care and repair provision.
Well being and Care Intelligence Specialists have an effect at each a strategic and operational stage by constructing and sustaining sturdy collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and colleagues in any respect ranges. Their work results in higher well being and care coverage selections, each at nationwide and native stage and improved implementation of companies throughout well being and social care.. Of their day by day work, an worker on this occupation interacts with Their group members, organisational managers, inner and exterior stakeholders. A lot of their output will take the type of experiences for publication or items of study that they may current to senior managers and determination makers resembling Boards and elected Councillors. Relying on their setting, they could additionally present data to central authorities, different organisations or members of the general public.
The Well being and Care Intelligence Specialist will even have common contact with colleagues who handle IT programs or present particular knowledge; have duty for the governance and safety of knowledge sources; or use knowledge and data for particular functions (for instance finance or human assets colleagues). There’s usually substantial interplay between Well being and Care Intelligence Specialists in several organisations and at completely different geographical ranges. The organisational buildings inside which Well being and Care Intelligence Specialists are positioned fluctuate (for instance, their group may report back to a director of finance, commissioning, IT or public well being).
Relying on their setting the Well being and Care Intelligence Specialist will work with clinicians and repair suppliers to assist the administration of departments and initiatives, consider care and assist analysis. They will even work with planners and policymakers, together with these with duty for public well being features. At nationwide stage interplay could also be required with authorities ministers and members of parliament, nationwide organisations inside and outdoors the well being sector (e.g. charities and sufferers’ teams) and the media. Domestically, common interplay is required with NHS and native authority managers, elected councillors, and representatives of native organisations.. An worker on this occupation will probably be accountable for main the manufacturing of high-quality data and interpretation by way of duties together with defining data necessities and advising colleagues on applicable knowledge sources and analytical approaches; specifying or managing assortment of knowledge; analysing a variety of knowledge and producing informative experiences and displays. The precise nature of those tasks will fluctuate relying on the organisational setting and particular function. Work to be delivered will usually be a combination of routine actions resembling annual experiences, particular initiatives and advert hoc/responsive outputs.
The Well being and Care Intelligence Specialist will acquire and work with current well being and care knowledge and also will have duty for designing or finishing up bespoke knowledge collections when required. Well being and Care Intelligence Specialists will probably be accountable for negotiation and drawing up of well being and care knowledge sharing agreements and compliance with the related laws, procedures and well being service steering for dealing with confidential affected person data.
Well being and Care Intelligence Specialists are normally accountable for deciphering analysis findings and together with them together with their analyses of their recommendation and outputs to tell the implementation of evidence-based interventions. They might even have a task in acquiring and reviewing analysis findings. They’re accountable for speaking their outputs to non-technical audiences in each written and verbal codecs.
At a senior stage Well being and Care Intelligence Specialists present management inside their organisation, selling and advocating the usage of high-quality intelligence outputs to tell determination making and enhance inhabitants well being and well being and care companies. At nearly all ranges they may have administration, supervisory or teaching and coaching tasks for much less skilled employees and, generally, exterior stakeholders. They’re accountable for managing complicated intelligence initiatives.
Relying on the setting the Well being and Care Intelligence Specialist could give attention to the actions of NHS and different care suppliers; working primarily at native stage, though they might work at nationwide stage in organisations with central knowledge administration, planning and oversight features. Alternatively, they could give attention to the well being of the inhabitants as an entire; working at nationwide, regional or native stage in organisations which have general duty for the well being and wellbeing of the inhabitants and for the safety of public well being. In some settings, they could undertake particular public well being/epidemiological features resembling surveillance of infectious ailments..
Perception and intelligence supervisor.
Senior (or principal) data analyst
Senior enterprise intelligence analyst (usually used for nhs roles)
Senior most cancers data analyst
Senior data scientist
While any entry necessities will probably be a matter for particular person employers, sometimes an apprentice is likely to be anticipated to have already achieved a primary diploma in a related topic or have acquired related expertise
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Information
K1: The applying of superior stage utilized statistics, epidemiology and evaluation.
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K2: The statistical, epidemiological, social and scientific ideas underpinning the interpretation of well being knowledge to supply intelligence and the influence of those on each individuals and organisations.
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K3: The strengths and weaknesses of statistical and epidemiological strategies, analytical instruments and approaches.
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K4: The ideas of growing data-driven fashions to grasp exercise, monetary influence or outcomes.
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K5: Financial forecasting, financial analysis and state of affairs modelling of inhabitants well being wants, useful resource and the rationale for longer-term funding in well being and care supply.
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K6: A variety of well being and care knowledge sources (e.g. demographic, well being, social care, financial, finance, native and nationwide NHS and different related knowledge sources) and their relative strengths, weaknesses and makes use of.
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K7: Medical terminologies in frequent use throughout the well being and care sector.
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K8: Well being and care knowledge requirements, the Information Dictionary, and knowledge flows throughout the NHS and social care system; together with the newest developments in these areas.
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K9: The design ideas, and technical facets of, programs for the enter, storage and dissemination of well being and care statistical and epidemiological data.
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K10: Well being and care programs and processes, operational buildings and affected person pathways (e.g. hospital exercise programs).
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K11: The context of NHS, central and native authorities intelligence, together with organisational buildings and tasks, planning cycles, frequent coverage points, objective of various kinds of quantitative assessments, audits and plans.
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K12: The key components influencing well being wants and inequalities, together with well being behaviours and the broader determinants of well being.
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K13: The ideas of utilizing efficient written and oral communications to affect others.
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K14: The data wants of decision-makers (e.g. within the NHS, central and native authorities) and the way they use data to assist decision-making and the way the publication of well being data could influence the broader inhabitants.
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K15: The important thing ideas of partnership working, the fundamentals of negotiation and completely different organisational cultures.
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K16: Sources of proof and examples of finest follow and the best way to entry them.
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K17: Key methods for assessing proof and examples of finest follow (e.g. vital appraisal, systematic critiques, meta-analysis and financial analysis).
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K18: The necessities for accountable, authorized and moral entry and use of well being and care knowledge, together with knowledge safety issues, safety of identifiable private healthcare knowledge, and understanding and consideration of the dangers of statistical disclosure points particularly when presenting and publishing well being data.
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K19: The authorized implications of sharing knowledge and knowledge linkage throughout organisations and the related necessities, resembling knowledge sharing agreements and knowledge mapping audits.
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K20: The function of efficient management in an organisation and the way management differs from administration.
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K21: The function of the analytical perform inside an organisational construction and the strengths and weaknesses of various fashions for organising analytical groups.
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K22: Organisational idea and behavior and theories of organisational change.
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K23: The processes by which assets are successfully managed, together with the best way to analyse and interpret price range experiences, how prices for companies are calculated, and the best way to put together easy monetary statements.
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K24: The ideas of efficient challenge administration and generally used challenge administration approaches.
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K25: How adults be taught and the best way to design efficient coaching in areas of healthcare evaluation and intelligence.
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K26: The way to establish gaps within the information and expertise required to fulfil analytical and intelligence roles within the well being and care system.
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K27: Teaching and mentoring methods to assist the efficient studying and improvement of others.
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K28: The significance of continuous skilled improvement and the best way to keep specialist information and follow in an ever remodeling setting.
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K29: The important thing points to be thought-about when balancing affected person’s rights versus the general public curiosity, together with the acceptability of entry to NHS knowledge by completely different private and non-private businesses, and the way that is mentioned within the public area.
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K30: Native youngster and grownup safety procedures and who to contact for additional recommendation.
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Abilities
S1: Gather knowledge by utilising quite a lot of instruments (e.g. databases, software program programs, APIs, digital units).
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S2: Extract, import, clear, and manipulate a variety of quantitative and qualitative knowledge.
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S3: Undertake superior statistical and epidemiological evaluation.
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S4: Interpret and current superior statistical and epidemiological analyses being aware of the dangers related to presenting and publishing well being data.
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S5: Undertake linkage of well being and care knowledge precisely and in accordance with the related data governance necessities.
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S6: Design and specify knowledge flows, assortment, storage and collation mechanisms for each qualitative and quantitative knowledge.
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S7: Develop knowledge visualisations applicable for a spread of audiences and contexts utilizing quite a lot of analytical instruments together with statistical programming software program and business customary packages (e.g. R, Tableau, PowerBI).
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S8: Professionally interpret and current well being and care intelligence analyses and suggestions in a nicely structured report.
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S9: Formulate evaluation questions and hypotheses that are answerable given the info out there.
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S10: Examine patterns and variations in determinants, ailments, and different components affecting well being and care outcomes.
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S11: Design and undertake surveys, audits or analysis (e.g. to analyze patterns of illness or assist service improvement).
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S12: Evaluate, and critically appraise proof and analysis together with survey design and evaluation. Summarise and disseminate related literature.
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S13: Work with customers of data to make clear their data wants, specializing in understanding the issue to resolve or determination to tell, and tailor experiences and displays accordingly.
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S14: Present recommendation and steering to inner and exterior stakeholders in any respect organisational ranges, on knowledge assortment, evaluation and interpretation.
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S15: Develop and ship administration/Board stage displays which affect senior determination makers, each non-technical and technical.
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S16: Talk sensitively, precisely and appropriately to audiences from technical and non-technical backgrounds.
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S17: Adjust to, implement and advise on native and nationwide knowledge safety and confidentiality laws, insurance policies, procedures and another related authorized frameworks.
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S18: Display efficient management and alter administration expertise to affect the usage of evaluation inside an organisation, managing analytical groups and adhering to the ideas of steady enchancment.
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S19: Consider the importance of human components within the efficient improvement and implementation of organisational methods for assortment, evaluation and use of knowledge.
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S20: Develop and talk a imaginative and prescient of how knowledge, intelligence and proof can be utilized to affect and enhance determination making in an organisation.
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S21: Develop efficient partnership working preparations with a spread of colleagues throughout departments and organisations, particularly the general public sector and voluntary sectors and academia.
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S22: Handle the assets of an analytical group, together with employees and price range administration.
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S23: Assist the skilled improvement of others within the well being and care system.
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S24: Design and ship efficient coaching and consider its influence.
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S25: Apply a spread of teaching interventions and methods related to the well being and care system, choosing essentially the most applicable technique to fulfill the wants of a person or group.
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S26: Decide when mentoring is acceptable for others within the well being and care system and both act in a mentoring capability or establish the suitable particular person(s) to behave as mentors.
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S27: Develop, keep and improve exercise and monetary and outcomes fashions, sense checking and refining the mannequin primarily based on numerous situations and advising on the best choice for planning future exercise and revenue or expenditure.
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S28: Apply a spread of challenge administration methods to steer and / or handle complicated well being and care intelligence initiatives.
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S29: Defend and safeguard weak individuals and promote the welfare of youngsters, younger individuals and weak adults.
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S30: Apply financial ideas and instruments to calculate worth for cash by figuring out prices, advantages and return on funding of interventions and companies.
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Behaviours
B1: Deal with individuals with dignity, and respect variety, beliefs and tradition.
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B2: Act with integrity with respect to moral, authorized and regulatory frameworks guaranteeing the safety of non-public knowledge, security and safety.
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B3: Be buyer centered each inside personal organisation and with exterior stakeholders.
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B4: Be self-directed in studying and reflection to continuously enhance and work in the direction of evidence-based finest follow.
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B5: Be adaptable, dependable and constant, demonstrating discretion, resilience, self-awareness and group working.
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B6: Act as a task mannequin to friends and reveal management.
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B7: Constructively problem inappropriate behaviour and use of data when essential.
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