About this role
Job summary
Data Analyst
37.5 hours per week, part time hours will also beconsidered
Hyrbid role
Are you passionate about turning data into meaningful insights that improve people's lives?
We're looking for a Data Analyst to join our Analytics team at Taurus Healthcare. This is an exciting opportunity to use your analytical skills and practice experience to support Taurus Clinical Services, GP Practices, Primary Care Networks and other healthcare services across Herefordshire and beyond, helping to shape decisions that directly improve patient care and outcomes.
Working as part of our data team, you will use your technical skills to bring data to life in dashboards and analyses. We are seeking someone with mixed system experiences, including PowerBI, SQL, Python and if youve used EMIS or CharityLog, thatll be a bonus!
You'll be part of a collaborative team that values innovation, continuous learning, and the intelligent use of data to drive better healthcare.
This role would suit someone who enjoys analysing data, communicating insights clearly, values the benefits of good quality data capture, and making a tangible difference through data.
Due to current licence limitations, visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must already hold the right to work in the UK.
Main duties of the job
- Transform healthcare data into meaningful insights that support better patient outcomes and service delivery.
- Produce dashboards, analyses and performance reports for clinical services, GP Practices, Primary Care Networks and other healthcare services
- Work closely with clinicians, managers and stakeholders to understand information needs and provide evidence-based recommendations.
- Work with partners across Herefordshire General Practice to build resilience through the use of data
- Provide population level analyses, utilising a range of data sources, to improve overall population health and reduce health inequalities.
- Support contractual and performance reporting requirements, helping practices and networks achieve key objectives.
- Identify trends, opportunities and risks within data, enabling informed decision-making.
- Contribute to the development of a data-driven culture across primary care by sharing expertise, supporting colleagues and driving continuous improvement.
- Build strong working relationships across healthcare organisations and collaborate on projects that improve services for local communities.
About us
Taurus Healthcare was established in 2012, as the provider arm of the GP Federation serving 185,000 patients in Herefordshire. Founded and owned by the partners of the entire Herefordshire Primary Care community, Taurus is focused on providing excellent out of hospital services for patients. Our ethos is to provide high quality and cost-effective health outcomes that are delivered as close as possible to the patients home, whilst ensuring that patients who do require in hospital services are seen as quickly and effectively as possible.
At Taurus Healthcare we strive to create a diverse, inclusive workplace, and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds including those from Military Veterans and family members of serving personnel.
Taurus Healthcare offer many employee benefits, such as:
Access to a generous NHS pension scheme
33 to 38 days annual leave entitlement, including bank holidays, depending on service (pro rata for part-time staff).
Access to an extensive Employee Benefits Programme (Vivup) offering:
o 24/7 access to counselling services
o Salary sacrifice scheme for cars and bikes
o Access to a wide range of discounts from national retailers.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role presents an exciting opportunity to join a team dedicated to providing intelligence and insights to Taurus Clinical Services, GP Practices and Primary Care Networks.
The Data Analyst will work across both Taurus Clinical Services, Herefordshire General Practice and Primary Care Analytics customers to provide intelligence and insights to provide better patient care. We aim to offer and deliver excellent, safe, co-ordinated, high quality patient analysis. Continuously learning, evolving and implementing new models of care, to create inclusion and reduce inequalities and improve outcomes.
This is an exciting role and an opportunity to make a unique and measurable impact on patient care, also enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of General Practice and Integrated services.
The postholder will be responsible for querying databases and development of dashboards to support clinical teams to improve patient care, practice and contractual delivery, as well as supporting the Herefordshire health and care system to make better decisions through improved neighbourhood data.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent professional qualification, or equivalent relevant experience
Experience
Essential
- A good understanding of health data
- Excellent IT skills with a strong working knowledge of Excel and other Microsoft products
- Previous experience in querying databases using SQL
- Experience in developing PowerBI dashboards to provide meaningful data
- Knowledge and experience of using Python to clean, prepare, and transform data for analysis and reporting
- Ability to interpret data and explain data to end users
- Minimum of 1 year experience working in a Health setting
- Experience of working in a GP practice setting
Desirable
- Experience in working with Adastra
- Experience in working with Systm1
- Experience in working in CharityLog
Employer details
Employer name
Taurus Healthcare Limited
Address
Nelson House
Whitecross Road
Hereford
Herefordshire
HR4 0DG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)