Job Description

Why Fraser Health?:
We invite you to apply today and find out why more than 95% of new employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends as an exceptional place to work. A 2022 BC Top Employer, we value diversity in the work force and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring & Trust.

Are you looking for that opportunity to put your established data expertise to use in healthcare? Do you want to work in team dedicated to service excellence? If you have answered “yes”, then we want you to keep reading! We are currently hiring a Temporary Full Time Data Analyst to provide leadership and analytic support to the System Optimization team at Central City located in Surrey, B.C. - an ideal location with access to rapid transit, and shopping services as well as other amenities. This Temporary Full Time position is available until March 31, 2023.

Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services to over 1.9 million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations, and is home to six Métis Chartered Communities. Our team of 43,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision: Better health, best in health care.

Effective October 26th 2021, all new hires to Fraser Health will need to have full COVID 19 vaccination (have received a full series of a World Health Organization “WHO” approved vaccine against infection by SARS-COV-2, or a combination of approved WHO vaccines). Please note this applies to all postings, and individual medical exemptions must be approved by the Provincial Health Officer.

Curious to learn what it’s like to work here? Like us on Facebook (@fraserhealthcareers), follow us on Twitter & Instagram (@FHCareer), or connect with us on LinkedIn (fraserhealthcareers) for first-hand employee insights. Detailed Overview: Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families: The Data Analyst provides leadership and analytics support to the System Optimization department. Applying expert knowledge, the Data Analyst performs business intelligence (BI), data extraction, data analysis, and performance reporting to provide evidence-based review of service utilization, health interventions, technology and performance assessments. The Data Analyst plans and develops BI reporting by engaging with healthcare stakeholders across the organization, analyzing operational, clinical, financial, and human resource data and applying knowledge in performance measurement and benchmarking methodologies. Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with business units and stakeholders to identify reporting needs, analyze current procedures, explore opportunities, reduce redundancies and ensure data gathering and reporting processes support corporate strategies and business objectives.

• Designs and develops BI reporting solutions using reporting tools such as SQL, Power BI, or Tableau.

• Provides detailed analysis, advice, insight, and interpretation from complex data across multiple sources.

• Conducts performance reporting benchmarking and best practices research, makes recommendations for improvement, and facilitates the adoption of emerging analytical methodologies and technologies.

• Develops and seeks continuous improvement to the performance reporting processes, including report automations and the coordination of reporting inputs, analyses and distributions.

• Provides quality assurance and a value-added review of reporting inputs to promote high standards for quality and insight. Ensures the analytics solutions are aligned with System Optimization production standards and guidelines, such as data definitions and UI/UX visualizations.

• Provides expertise across different phases of system implementation life cycle to ensure reporting requirements meet established guidelines and standards, and performs corrective action as required.

• Prepares strategic business cases and supporting documents, briefing papers, strategic and tactical reports for an assigned area and/or portfolio for submission to Fraser Health Executive, Board of Directors and other stakeholders.

• Collaborates with members of the System Optimization department, senior management, staff of various organizational units and other internal and external stakeholders in support of the mission, philosophies and goals of Fraser Health.

• This includes synthesizing and analyzing data on patient services, interpreting information, participating in the development of recommendations for improvements in a continuous agile partnership, and performing tasks such as assisting in selecting appropriate outcome measures and furthering understanding of patient reported experience and outcome metrics.

Qualifications: Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or related applied quantitative scientific field, plus five (5) to seven (7) years of related experience in decision support, data analysis, performance reporting, and/or health care management, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Experience with T-SQL and Power BI is preferred.

Skills and Abilities
Demonstrates the LEADS capabilities of Leads Self, Engages Others, Achieves Results, Develops Coalitions and supports Systems Transformation. Professional/Technical Capabilities

• Demonstrated understanding of the relational multidimensional database concepts
• Working knowledge of big data analytics and statistics
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment and independently
• Ability to plan, organizer and prioritize work and deadlines
• Working knowledge of PDSA, Lean, Six Sigma and other flow process improvement concepts
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the health care system
• Knowledge of other health care disciplines and their role within healthcare
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position