Performance Analyst

Requisition No: 5028
- Executive Division: Strategy Partnerships Corp Governance
- Division: Health Information & Performance Unit
- Program: Data Reporting and Analytics
- Department: Performance Reporting & Analytics
- Enterprise Agreement: Varied Health and Allied Services, Managers and Ad
- Job Function: Administration & Leadership
- Project:

- **Location**:Williamstown Hospital
- **Employment Type**:Ongoing, Full Time
- **Salary**: Approx. $100,000 per annum + Super + Salary Packaging

**About the role**
- The Performance Analyst supports decision-making across the organisation by collecting, analysing, and interpreting data to generate actionable insights. This role is responsible for ensuring data accuracy and integrity, developing meaningful reports and visualisations, and collaborating with stakeholders to meet business objectives.
- In this role, you will perform data analysis to generate insights and support decision-making processes. Develop and maintain dashboards and visualisations to effectively communicate insights and performance metrics. Identify opportunities for process improvements through data-driven insights and automation.
- You will play a key role in promoting a data-driven culture and enhancing organisational performance through evidence-based analysis. This role requires an individual with the ability to develop strong working relationships with business stakeholders including Executive Management, Clinical and Non Clinical Directors, and the ability to both understand and support their business, management and information requirements.
- Located at Williamstown Hospital, this role offers a hybrid working environment, one ADO/month and 5 weeks leave.

**Essential Selection Criteria**
- Relevant tertiary qualification and/or proven success in a similar role.
- Strong skills in SQL and data manipulation, with the ability to query, join, and transform data from various sources.
- Solid understanding of Power BI, with experience in advanced data modeling, dynamic visual creation, DAX and leveraging AI-driven insights.
- Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including Power Pivot, VLOOKUP
- Highly developed data analysis and reporting skills.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Perform exploratory analysis to identify trends, patterns and actionable insights.
- Identify trends and patterns in data and build machine learning and AI support to identify these patterns for pro-active alerts
- Conduct ad hoc analyses and deep dives into data to support business decision-making
- Provide support to key stakeholders in relation to interpreting and analysing patient activity data and related performance metrics. This includes support for WH research projects, ad hoc data requests and issues as they arise.
- Regularly analyse and report on organisational performance in line with relevant key performance indicators, researching performance issues and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Work closely with other Performance Unit staff to assist with continued development and enhancement of the Monitoring and Performance (MaP) business intelligence reporting system.
- Provide support to staff with data extraction, reporting and analytics as required for data from WH including Cerner Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
- Provide support in the development of target models to assist the organisation in achieving externally and internally set operational and funding targets.

Position Description

**About Western Health**

Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne’s western suburbs.

With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centred care across every life stage.

We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include

oncology, renal, mental health, women’s health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.

We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia’s most culturally and socioeconomically diverse and vulnerable populations provides us with unique insights into the most pressing health challenges.

Western Health operates four acute public hospitals: Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s), Footscray Hospital, Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Community Hospital, Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre, Melton Health and Community Services, Bacchus Marsh Community Health Centre, Caroline Springs Community Health Centre and Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care in Bacchus Marsh. Western Health also provides the primary healthcare service at the Dame P