BCF Data & Insight Analyst

You will lead the continued development of a Better Care Fund (BCF) integrated health and care system pressures dashboard that monitors system activity, such as discharges from acute care to community settings, to enable senior health and care managers to understand flow issues and support collaborative responses.

You will use the data and insights from the dashboard to:

• Present timely analysis in a visually compelling way to help health and care senior managers to identify potential issues with market capacity and support evidence-based integrated responses to maintain flow across the system.


• Track the impact of the national Discharge Fund money that is helping Sutton to increase bed based capacity and home care to support people who are discharged from hospital.


• Enable the BCF Oversight Group to track performance against the national BCF metrics in line with local and national reporting requirements.


You will lead the coordination of the quarterly national monitoring requirements for the Discharge Fund 2023/24, working closely with the Adult Social Care finance team.

You will also contribute towards wider BCF and Adult Social Care data and intelligence work in line with service priorities.

The role will require working very closely across council departments (including Adult Social Care and Commissioning) and with partners including NHS South West London Integrated Care System, Encompass, the hospital discharge team, Sutton Health and Care and the voluntary sector.
About Us

You will be part of the Public Health & Wellbeing Directorate. We are a busy, dynamic and forward-looking team with ambitions to significantly improve the health and wellbeing of our borough's population, and reduce health inequalities.

You will play your part by:

• Building and running an integrated health and care system pressures dashboard that produces analysis and insights to inform operational priorities.



• Preparing and producing a range of critical reports, including national returns, to exacting timescales.


• Responding to ad hoc internal and external data requests within agreed timescales.


• Using a variety of visualisation tools (e.g. Google, Microsoft) to produce meaningful visualisations and reports from the data for a wide range of audiences.


• Working with service colleagues to identify gaps in data and work with them to improve data capture processes and service workflows.


• Working with service colleagues on providing data to support performance improvement.


• Seeking opportunities to maximise the use of existing data analytics and visualisation tools to respond efficiently and effectively to new analysis and reporting requests.


• Supporting the evaluation and adoption of alternative tool options and approaches to increment and enhance the Team's service offering.


• Working collaboratively with colleagues across the council and with partners locally, regionally and nationally on data and insight initiatives and projects.


The work you do will be key to help Sutton continue to deliver a high level of service to its residents and ensure that performance is maintained and resources are targeted correctly., We pride ourselves on being a diverse, inclusive and welcoming Borough and we aim to create a workforce which reflects the community we serve - the key highlights from our recent Equalities Workforce Report can be seen here. We are respectful of difference and realise the positive value of diversity in our workforce. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and disabled candidates, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce. As part of our Disability Confident Committed status, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.

We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums, and inclusive staff networks who help drive our diversity agenda.

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• Education to degree level or equivalent by experience.


• Practical experience and knowledge of a range of quantitative and qualitative analytical tools, with examples of having produced recommendations that led to improvement.


• Experience in using tools such as Business Objects and Power BI or demonstrate an aptitude for learning and mastering similar data analytics and visualisation tools.


• Experience of presenting data and analysis in a creative way, utilising a range of data visualisation techniques and tools to communicate complex messages and insights simply to a range of audiences.


• Experience of presenting data visually to a range of audiences, including Management Boards.


• Knowledge and understanding of the practical implementation of the Data Protection Act, in relation to handling data for analytical and research purposes.


• Ability to anticipate and resolve data related problems as they arise.


• Excellent collaboration and communication skills and experience of working flexibility as part of multi-disciplinary teams and in a matrix environment.


• Experience of sharing and handling sensitive data securely.


• Drive and enthusiasm with an ability to manage and prioritise your own workload to demanding timescales in a busy environment.


• Excellent time management and prioritisation skills with the ability to provide regular meaningful updates to managers on key priorities.


• Ideally but not essential, previous experience of working with data relating to both Adult Social Care and health.
  
  Looking ahead, there are plans for the delivery of new homes and new schools and the London Cancer Hub is being developed, while the Council is also seen as a driving force within the South London Partnership of five outer south west London boroughs focused on strategic growth, regeneration and investment.


All of this demonstrates a good track record and an authority that is ambitious and set to deliver more improvements for the borough. We've set out our vision for the future of Sutton in our corporate plan - Ambitious for Sutton. This strategic plan will shape the outcomes we achieve, the services we provide, and the impact we have on residents, to make Sutton a great place to live, work and raise a family.

Situated in Zone 5, Sutton is less than 30 minutes by train from central London, and south and south west London are easily accessible by public transport. There are 10 train stations which serve key neighbourhoods within the borough providing direct connections to London Victoria, London Bridge, London Blackfriars and St Pancras International. Sutton also has direct rail connections with Epsom, Dorking, Guildford and Horsham, as well as Wimbledon for an interchange with the London Underground and West Croydon for the London Overground. There's also an extensive road network which provides close and easy access to the M25 and M23.

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we're committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We're constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps. Our Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme embraces new ways of working. It provides improved work life balance for our staff as it allows staff to work from a variety of locations and staff are not required to work within the office 5 days a week.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

• Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)


• Flexi-time (Please note, this applies to roles at grades 1-9 only)


• Three volunteering days per year in Sutton


• Comprehensive learning and development programme


• Local and national discounts for shopping, eating out and leisure activities


• Interest free season ticket loans


• Local Government Pension Scheme


• Car parking scheme


• Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme


• Zip car scheme


• Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses


• Confidential wellbeing and counselling support


• Subsidised gym membership