Principal Data Analyst

Job overview

Passionate about how digital can transform healthcare, for our donors, patients and colleagues? We have an exciting Digital Services team opportunity for a Principal Data Analyst, to work collaboratively across the Trust and wider NHS Wales, to provide transformative digital systems and insight-led services. We are in an exciting period of change including opening a new world class cancer centre to extend and enhance specialist cancer treatment along with delivery of cancer care closer to home at regional sites. For the Welsh Blood Service, we are transforming blood and transplant services, improving current capabilities alongside developing new services including plasma for medicines.  An ambitious digital strategy underpins this, which will revolutionise the way in which we deliver services – from co-producing innovative technologies, working on digital inclusion, to embedding data & insight into our everyday.  Our team are here to deliver new digital solutions and excellent everyday digital service, to improve services and outcomes.  We recognise that successful digital transformation and service is as much to do with our people and culture as it is to do with technology.  .

Main duties of the job

The provision of high-quality Data and Insight services is central to the vision for the Trust to improve lives through excellent care, inspirational learning, and healthier people. The Principal Data Analyst is central to this change. Operating as part of a digital multi-disciplinary team, the Principal Data Analyst will forge close working relationships across the Trust to ensure the challenges are understood and to be part of the solution from the outset, helping coproduce robust, user-centred, pragmatic analytical solutions. The development of these solutions will draw on the Principal Data Analyst’s expertise and experience across data visualisation, mathematical modelling, forecasting, systems thinking and predictive analysis.  The Principal Data Analyst will provide operational day-to-day management of delivery of the analytical portfolio, and will support the Assistant Director of Data & Insight to continue to shape, establish, and operate the Trust-wide Data & Insight as part of the Digital Services team, working to embed a user-centric, agile ethos into our ways of working. The Principal Data Analyst will support the improvement of data literacy (skills & comfort) of the wider workforce, through informal skills transition and small group learning events.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.