Junior Information Analyst

The Information Team are looking for a dedicated, enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join their innovative, award winning team as a Junior Information Analyst.

The ability of the Trust to analyse and manage its clinical and business operations is fundamental to the Trust’s success as a Foundation Trust. As a Junior Analyst, your role is to integrate with the ongoing departmental professional development programme. You will learn and develop a working knowledge of emerging technologies to ensure goals are delivered to a robust and sustainable standard.

The Junior Information Analyst will undertake the following key duties:

• Responding to ad-hoc requests from staff members
• Submission of National returns
• Using SQL to extract and transform data
• Using Excel and Power BI to create attractive and useable reports for use by operational staff
• Contributing fully to our process for documenting our work, and regularly reviewing and streamlining our reports
• Responsible for the delivery of specific projects including investigation and resolution of data collection issues
• Documentation of own creative thinking and technical implementations to a level that will be understood by others
• Establishment of processes to ensure reports are produced efficiently, effectively, and successfully using appropriate business intelligent (BI) tools
• Work closely with other information colleagues as required
• Undertake and further develop inhouse professional development toolkits
• Deals with queries relating to data or information, assessing whether standard analyses are robust e.g undertaking a data cleansing role or comparing data from different sources to ensure quality, consistency and accuracy
• Effectively produces developmental code, adhering to industry recognised and inhouse standards across a number of platforms
• Ensure procedure guides are complete and up-to-date, ensuring validation checks are included and agreed

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with three acute hospitals and community sites serving a local population of around 700,000. We also provide specialist services for Kent and Medway.

We care about our patients and our people. We are focused on providing outstanding, safe patient care, and a positive working culture that benefits staff and patients alike. With our emphasis on staff training and development, a staff support scheme that’s second to none, and a healthy package of benefits, it’s easy to put down roots in East Kent Hospitals.

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