Experience

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  Public Health Scotland

  • Principal Information Analyst

    • Oct 2020 - Present

    April 2022 - Primary Care data - leading on variety of publications for primary care data including the GP workforce Survey, GP workforce and list size publication,GP Disease Prevalence Dashboard.Leading analysis using SPIRE to get data from GP practices Now the Analytical Lead for PHS's Analytical Training and Induction.Heavily involved as analytical lead for information analyst and senior information analyst recruitment. Leading on the development and innovation of reporting of Hospital @Home data for PHS.Was previously posted to Scottish Government covering Unscheduled Care,Winter Pressures and Covid analysis during the pandemic.

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  North Merchiston Football Club

  • Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

  • Volunteer Coach

    • Aug 2021 - Present
    • Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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  National Records of Scotland

  • Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  • Senior Assistant Statistician

    • Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
    • Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Seconded to NRS - Working on project to use data linkage of admin data sources to produce accurate population and household estimates .Exploration and development of techniques to use admin data to improve and enhance the census. See published methodology papers here https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/about/planning-the-2022-census/statistical-methodology/peer-review-and-governance/#section3 Promoted to Principal Information Analyst in substantive post while on secondment, Apri 2019. instrumental in the publication of Scotland"s first Administrative Data Based Population Estimates https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/developments/administrative-data-based-population-estimates-scotland-2016-statistical-research

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  NHS National Services Scotland

  • Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  • Senior Information Analyst

    • May 2016 - Nov 2018
    • Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Quality Indicators : Secondary Care Team Managing the Information Request Service- Delivery of Information Requests, Parliamentary Questions and Freedom of Information RequestsProject Management and Delivery of Quarterly Acute Activity Publication.Development of Hospital at Home data set and subsequent analysis.Development and exploration of Open Data and how it relates to the team's products and publicationsLine management of Information Analysts and Modern Apprentices.Led the Modern Apprentices workstream in my service area.

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  NHS NSS PHI - Farr Institute- ADRN

  • Senior Information Analyst/ Research Co-ordinator

    • Jun 2014 - May 2016

    As an eDRIS/ADRN research co-ordinator I provide a single point of contact for academic and health service reserchers to access linked NHS Scotland data and other public sector adminsitrative data.The creation of bespoke data extracts of linked data for researchers.Analysis of linked data.Line Management responsibility.

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  NHS NSS ISD Scotland

  • Senior Information Analyst

    • Jun 2012 - Jun 2014

    I am seconded to the Scottish Government, Health Analytical Services Division. I work in the the Resourcing Efficiency and Workforce Team specialising in analysis and modeling of pay data and workforce.I provide cost modelling and forecasting to aid contract negotiations for all NHS staff groups (AfC, Medical and Dental and Executive Senior Managers) and data that helps inform and shape policy, feed into ministerial briefings and answer PQs. As this topic is often 'hot' politically, the work is fast paced and always of the highest possible quality.I work closely with policy colleagues and analysts from the other constituent UK nations.

  • Information Analyst

    • May 2009 - Jun 2012

    Working in the Secondary Care Team - Analysis of acute hosital data for routine Information Requests and for Parliamentary Questions.Qualitative Analysis of stakeholder interviews , which formed the basis of the National Information Framework for Health and Social Care.Unscheduled Care - Analysis of A+E data. Analysis of 'System Watch' the weekly unscheduled care data feed to assist and predict winter and potential system pressures in NHS Scotland.User Acceptance Testing ( UAT) - UAT of A+E, inpatient, outpatient datamarts.Development of Peer Groups for comparison with English Acute data using analysis of NHS England HES data.

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  NHS Lothian

  • Employee Relations Practitioner

    • Apr 2008 - Apr 2009

    Absence management for the General Surgery Directorate.Conducted disciplinary investigations on behalf of the employer.General secretariat for complex cases.Constant interaction and negotiation with partnership on individual cases.

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  Edinburgh's Telford College

  • Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  • HR Administrator

    • Aug 2007 - Apr 2008
    • Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    End to end recruitment support. Requirement interviews. Secretariat for Employee Relations casework.

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  The Scottish Government

  • HR Administrator

    • 2007 - 2007

    Based in the fast paced Central Recruitment Unit, end to end administration of recruitment campaigns and analysis of MI database.