Aps Level 6

**Job Reference Number **22-IHACPADIV-15576

**Classification **APS Level 6

**Job Title **Data Analyst

**Division **Independent Hospital Aged Care Pricing Authority Division

**Branch **Costing and Data Infrastructure Branch

**Section **Data Acquisition Section

**Location **Sydney, NSW

**Status **Ongoing

**Employment type **Full-time

**Salary Range **$88,439 - $99,772

**Desirable Qualifications **A tertiary qualification in data management or a related field,
and/or working knowledge of these areas would be highly
desirable.

**Contact Officer Name**:Sheldon Le
**Phone**:(02) 8215 1130

**Eligibility**
- To be eligible for employment with the Department of Health and Aged Care

applicants must be an Australian citizen at the time an offer of employment is made
- An applicant’s suitability for employment with Health will also be assessed through a

variety of pre-employment check processes, such as:

- Satisfactory completion of an Australian Federal Police criminal history check,

and where relevant a Working with Children and Vulnerable People Check.
- Completion of a medical declaration and pre-employment medical (where

required).
- Providing evidence of qualifications.

**Division Responsibilities**

IHACPA's vision is to design pricing systems that promote safe, efficient health and aged

care for all Australians. This is implemented through activity based funding (ABF) which

provides incentives for efficiency and increases transparency in the delivery and funding of

public hospital services across Australia. In the context of public hospitals, IHACPA's primary

function is to calculate and deliver an annual NEP. The NEP is a major determinant of the

level of Australian Government funding for public hospital services and provides a price

signal or benchmark for the efficient cost of providing public hospital services.

IHACPA undertakes several major areas of work designed to inform the annual

determination of the NEP, including ongoing consultation with all Australian health

departments, expert advisory committees and key stakeholders. Recently and in response

to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Commonwealth

Government announced that IHACPA’s functions is expanded to include the provision of

advice on the pricing of aged care services. This will require IHACPA to develop its systems,

processes and assurance work to ensure that it continues to deliver to a high standard,

across its wider remit.

**Branch Responsibilities**

The Branch is responsible for supporting IHACPA’s empirically based program of work

through data services, including the collection, validation and preparation of data from

external stakeholders, and the development and maintenance of IHACPA’s ICT

infrastructure and information assets.

**Section Responsibilities**

The Data Acquisition Section works with internal and external stakeholders to ensure data

services meet business needs and adhere to data quality, integrity and security standards

and requirements. The section also has a key role in ICT system development to ensure

IHACPA can continue to deliver on its work program now and into the future, through the

implementation of modern and effective ICT technology.***

**Key Responsibilities**

This position provides input into the oversight of the end-to-end data acquisition cycle, from

specification to provision of high quality data sets for users within IHACPA. This includes but

is not limited to:

- Working closely with various stakeholders to manage the hospital cost data

submission requirements and process;
- Providing technical support to data collection covering data acquisitions, analysis,

monitoring, validating, information security, and reporting for internal and external

stakeholders;
- Maintaining technical material such as tools in SAS and Python to validate and

consolidate data as required; and
- Working closely with internal and external stakeholders to fill IHACPA reporting

requirements in new Secure Data Management System build.

**Key Capabilities**

Data Analyst require key capabilities to:

- Provide program management, working to tight deadlines and responding quickly to

changing priorities with consultation, tenacity and passion;
- Take responsibility for the section’s operations including development, continuous

improvement and change control and stakeholder engagement of the program of

work;
- Achieve the section’s objectives. Ensure closure and deliver on intended results.

Contribute to the section’s operational capability and responsiveness, steer and

implement change as well as deal with uncertainty;
- Take responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering

analysis and problem resolution. Identifies, evaluates and recommends options,

implementing if required. Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the

capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel, by ensuring that proposed

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