Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Performance Management Analyst & Service Improvement Data Manager
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 040-AC202-0625
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St. Cadoc's Hospital, Caerleon
- Town
- Newport
- Salary
- £46,840 - £53,602 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Performance Management Analyst & Service Improvement Manager
Band 7
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed. Please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3.
If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and skilled individual to join our Planning and Performance Team as a Senior Performance Management Analyst & Service Improvement Data Manager.
In this pivotal role, you will lead the development and delivery of high-quality analysis and insight to support strategic planning, performance management, and service transformation across the Health Board. You will work closely with Divisions, analysts, and clinicians across the Health Board and the wider region to ensure data-driven decision-making is at the heart of our improvement efforts.
Your responsibilities will include coordinating analytical workstreams, developing advanced data models, and promoting innovative tools and technologies to support data acquisition, performance monitoring, and service improvement. Your insights will be essential in understanding how our services are performing and in shaping how we plan and manage change.
This role is key to ensuring safe, efficient, and resource-optimised healthcare services across Gwent. You will play a central part in building our performance and analytical capability and supporting a culture of continuous improvement.
Join us at a time of transformation and help us deliver a stronger, fairer, and safer healthcare system.
Main duties of the job
• To provide co-ordination and leadership insight about Performance, service change, transformation health, care, and the Health Board, including robust analytics surrounding all aspects of our Healthcare system.
• To develop actionable insights of system change and function as a lead a source of technical expertise for Divisions, Clinicians and Corporate Departments producing analytical and scenario-based assumptions to understand performance and planning.
• To support the translation of analytical findings into real-world processes and as such provide evidence for service redesign and evidence-based interventions.
• Lead on the day today relationship with operational managers and support the department managers and program team with addressing analytical questions and solutions.
• Model and analyse a variety of data, and make recommendations based on findings to improve operational, tactical, and strategic business decisions impacting on performance and operational decision.
• Develop and refine data visualisation systems to present analytical results. Lead on the development of Health board and regional planning and pathway dashboards.
• Make recommendations and determine impact of proposed strategic and operational changes using data-driven approaches, and communicate findings to their teams and respond tactfully to challenge of assumptions and results. This includes the Annual Planning Process.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opened in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Masters degree or equivalent relevant experience
- Substantial experience working at a senior level involving scientific research /data analysis and mathematical modelling
- Demonstrate knowledge of the current health system within Gwent, the aims and aspirations of the Health Board and current national performance objectives
- Knowledge of data standards and their application
- Equality and Diversity – knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the role of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Knowledge of health inequalities
Experience
Essential criteria
- Understand the background to and aims of current performance objectives
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance at system level and acute
- Understanding of the principles of data for improvement and application
Desirable criteria
- Experience in data warehousing experience
- Practical advanced experience or training in SQL
- Practical advanced experience or training in Python or R
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders
- Ability to liaise and work with lead analysts /relevant stakeholder across multiple organisations to ensure that the work programme is well communicated and delivers outputs, as expected
- Be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Excellent presentational skills for conveying complex concepts, be a competent translator of data
Desirable criteria
- Be able to effectively lead training and development programmes for internal and external persons
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paul Steynor
- Job title
- Head of System Planning & Performance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01633 431728
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