Principal Analyst

Job title:

Principal Analyst

Company

Care Quality Commission

Job description

Grade A – £52,737 (National Framework) or £58,139 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from homeContracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week or compressed hours or part-time (part time hours 30 hours or more).Contract Type: Permanent 2xClosing date: Thursday 13th June 2024 at 11.59pmThis role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.Are you committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England?When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement. If you would like to help us make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on.Why this could be a great role for you….You will lead a team of motivated analysts to develop a portfolio of routine insight about the quality and safety of services that CQC regulates. You are an experienced analytical leader, with a passion for how data can be used to inform decision making. Alongside an interest in analysing health and social care data, you are confident in managing relationships at all levels, and understand the importance of clear communication. You’ll be comfortable managing competing priorities and balancing the routine with developmental activities, and can be flexible when requirements change. You will have experience leading and developing analytical colleagues. Our Principal Analysts contribute to cross CQC initiatives as well as leading their own portfolios of work. Some of these initiatives will allow you to lead quite technical or specialist areas of CQC’s work.What we can offer you…Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day. We also understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme, contributing about 14% of basic salary. You will also be able to access discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, fleet cars, plus we also have an internal reward scheme which could see you earn yourself a voucher or two! All of our Homeworkers are also kitted out with everything they need to comfortably work from home.We want to support you to succeed and be your very best, with opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.What you will bring…The purpose of this role is to lead the development and delivery of a portfolio of analytical content to meet CQC’s needs. The key accountabilities for the role are set out below.Accountabilities:

• Lead the development and delivery of the strategy for the respective portfolio of content.
• Maintain an overall data catalogue for CQC, with a particular focus on the relevant portfolio area, understanding existing and future requirements.
• Act as owner of the relevant portfolio of content, representing highest point of escalation for business and support teams.
• Develop and champion common ways of working for content development, including services for data acquisition and common approaches for indicator development.
• Promote excellence and innovation in the analytical methodologies adopted for measurement of quality in health and/or social care, learning from best practice (national/international), both internally and externally.
• Manage competing demands for analytical work within the framework of the Demand Management Process. Ensuring sufficient capacity to deliver while managing stakeholder expectations.
• Work collaboratively with teams across CQC to ensure content supports development of products and services and meets CQC’s strategic needs.
• Drive and build relationships internally and externally in order to deliver the portfolio of content.
• Lead complex analysis work to meet CQC’s insight needs.
• Identify the best data, tools and methods to deliver needed insight.
• Line manage research teams, facilitating flexible deployment in accordance with unit priorities.
• Lead and facilitate multi-disciplinary teams from across the unit to deliver outcomes.
• Assure that appropriate quality control and assurance is undertaken to ensure consistency, accuracy and relevance of unit outputs.
• Help shape, steer and assure content work to help Data & Insight deliver best value for stakeholders across CQC and help shape the long-term Data & Insight direction to meet organisational needs.
• Role model behaviours that drive efficiency and quality through continuous improvement and effective change to deliver the Data & Insight operating model.
• Ensure that the views of the public and people using services are in the design and delivery of Data & Insight services and products.
• Promote a strong data culture across CQC in line with the organisational data strategy.
• Stay abreast of internal and external developments in data, policy and structures of care delivery ensuring appropriate awareness within the team.
• Role model inclusive behaviours in everyday interactions.
• Promote a culture of respect and fairness and understand personal responsibilities around delivering against CQC diversity and inclusion strategy.
• Demonstrate competence and support others to achieve behavioural excellence through our Success Profiles (Grade A) ensuring yourself and those you work with are the best that they can be.
• Role model and support others to instil our values into everything that we do.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Educated to degree level or have equivalent professional experience.
• Expert analytical skills (quantitative and/or qualitative).
• Excellent networking skills internally and externally.
• Proven experience in leading and developing analyst teams.
• Excellent decision-making skills and sound judgement with minimal supervision and able to coach others to develop their decision-making skills.
• Proven experience in managing conflict and articulating coherent rationales for action.
• Proven ability to anticipate problems, know how to prevent them and understand how problems fit into the larger picture. Can also develop problem solving capabilities in others.
• Expert ability to manage stakeholder expectations and facilitate discussions across high risk and complexity or under constrained timescales.
• Expert understanding of relevant data sources, tools and systems including knowledge of how to influence senior stakeholders in data approaches.
• Proven ability to tailor the communication of insight in the most appropriate and compelling way for the audience (including large external audiences), including through storytelling and visualisation and have experience in leading others to do so. Desirable
• Knowledge and understanding of the health and care sectors.
• Experience of developing complex analytical models, risk models, or aggregate views of analysis.
• Understanding and experience of using research and evidence-based approaches to measurement of quality.

For an informal discussion or further information on the role, please contact Lisa Annaly, Head of Analytic Content at [email protected]Individual adjustments…We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate reasonable adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: [email protected]CQC is committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our people can flourish and reach their full potential. We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of: age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.For this role, we are particularly encouraging people from ethnically diverse communities and people with a disability to apply, who are currently under-represented at this level in the organisation.Our ValuesExcellence – Meeting our challenge to be a high-performing organisation
Caring – Treating everyone with dignity and respect
Integrity – Demonstrating our passion for ‘doing the right thing’
Teamwork – Enabling us to be the best we can

Expected salary

Location

United Kingdom

Job date

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:14:37 GMT

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