Data Analyst

Company Description

One of Canada's Best Diversity Employers and Greater Toronto's Top Employers for many consecutive years, William Osler Health System (Osler) provides a safe and supportive health care network to grow your career. Osler is nationally recognized for its commitment to patient safety and is Accredited with Exemplary Standing, the highest rating a Canadian hospital can receive. As a major Ontario hospital system, and home to some of the biggest specialty and emergency departments in the country, Osler serves the 1.3 million residents of Brampton, Etobicoke and surrounding communities. We are proud to offer you incredible exposure to best-in-class health care delivery and challenging hands-on opportunities to stay at the top of your game.

A hospital system built for and by the community, we continue to expand our services to meet the needs of a growing population, creating opportunities for increased hands-on skills development, cross-department training and promotional opportunities. Guided by our accomplished senior leadership team, together we are driving our vision of patient-inspired health care without boundaries.

At Osler, we invest in careers that go beyond where health care professionals like you can achieve their goals and find deep personal and professional fulfillment. Join our team today

**Job Description**:
Using your strong attention to detail and analytical skills, the Data Analyst works with a variety of hospital information sources to extract, transform and analyze data. Reporting to the Manager of Organizational Performance you will be surrounded by an engaged, highly motived team dedicated to evaluating hospital performance, identifying improvement opportunities, and supporting data driven problem solving. Fostering relationships with analysts across the health system, you will develop expertise in health system datasets and data quality improvement processes. A self-motivated individual with exceptional analytical and interpersonal skills will excel in this position.

As a Data Analyst you will:

- Be responsible for working with departments to support the accurate and timely acquisition, reconciliation and validation of data as required
- Develop reports using SAS, Crystal, SQL and other reporting solutions
- Ensure accurate data submission to the Ministry is in accordance with provincial standards as required
- Collaborate with team members in Finance, Human Resources, Quality and Organizational Performance as well as other key stakeholders to support continuous data quality improvement and data integrity between financial, statistical and clinical data
- Manage changes to departmental business process rules and promote continuous process improvement
- Coordinate, analyze, interpret and verify data as required for benchmarking initiatives and other external reports
- Learn and share education and training on standardized provincial and national health system performance databases and systems
- Partner with the Information Services program to extract and build dataset that can be leveraged to automate reporting, building analytical dashboards, and support advanced analytics opportunities

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in a health-related field or applied health-clinical informatics or equivalent experience
- Strong computer skills including MS office
- Experience with coding and building queries using SQL, Crystal Reports and SAS programing an asset
- Knowledge provincial and national health systems databases (e.g. Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), National Rehab System (NRS), Ontario Mental Health Reporting system (OMHRS), Ontario Case Costing (OCC), Ontario Healthcare Reporting Standards (OHRS) etc. an asset
- Ability to organize and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a strong attention to detail
- Work independently with mínimal supervision and effectively as part of a work team
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational and presentation skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills

Additional Information

Remote First: Roles that can function primarily remotely but require essential, occasional onsite work.

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