Data Analyst

Job Reference Number 22-IHACPADIV-14697

Classification APS Level 6

Job Title APS Level 6 - Data Analyst

Division Independent Hospital Aged Care Pricing Auth Division

Branch Costing and Data Infra Branch

Section Data Acquisition Section

Location Sydney, NSW

Status Non-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 1***
Email: **********@ihacpa.gov.au

Eligibility

• To be eligible for employment with the Department of Health and Aged Care

• An applicant’s suitability for employment with Health will also be assessed through a

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

• Completion of a medical declaration and pre-employment medical (where

• Providing evidence of qualifications.
  

Division Responsibilities

IHACPA’s vision is for all Australians to have access to a sustainable, locally controlled health

system that funds public hospital services using activity-based funding (ABF), where

practicable, based on a national efficient price (NEP).

The implementation of ABF 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 solutions are properly understood and

appropriately exploited.

• Cultivate productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders,

including the section’s staff, other IHACPA management and staff and working

groups.

• Apply IHACPA’s governance framework ensuring its internal control measures such

as risk management, delegations, compliance, finance, HR, workplace health and

safety and ICT are managed effectively.

Desirable Experience

Knowledge or previous experience using SAS, SQL or Python will be an advantage.

Application Response (Single page application)

Your application will be assessed on your ability to demonstrate that you possess, or have

the real potential to develop, the required skills, knowledge, experience and qualifications

to perform the role. These requirements are based on the information provided to you as

part of the job advertisement, in line with the APS Work Level Standards.

Applicants are required to provide a statement of claims framed around the key duties and

key capabilities. Your statement of claims should be no more than one page in total with a

font no smaller than size 10. Applications that do not meet these requirements may not

be considered.

Work Environment Description

Responsibilities – As detailed in Section 28 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 while at
work, a worker must:

• Take reasonable care for his or her own health and safety

• Take reasonable care that his or her acts or omissions do not adversely affect the

• Comply, so far as the worker is reasonably able, with any reasonable instruction that

• Cooperate with any reasonable policy or procedure of the person conducting the

• Complete all WHS related induction and training

• Report all work related incidents and/or illnesses to the WHS Section
  

Description Requirement Additional Information

Administrative

1. Computer Use Yes

2. Generic screen based Yes

3. Sitting at desk Yes

4. Standing for long periods No

Manual Handling

Description Requirement Additional Information

5. Lifting 0-15kg No

6. Lifting 15 kg + No

7. Climbing No

8. Bending No

9. Squatting No

10. Reaching No

11. Push/pull No

12. Sequential Repetitive No

Movements in short period of time

13. Manual dexterity/manipulation No

Work Environment

14. Work with others towards Yes

shared goals in a team environment

15. Works in isolation from other No

staff (remote supervision)

16. Distance walking (ie: Large No

building or inter-building transit)

17. Works outdoors No

18.Works in a call centre No

environment

19. Works in a customer service No

environment

Tasks Involving

20. Exposure to chemicals No

21. Exposure to biological hazards No

22. Working at heights No

23. Requirement to wear personal No

protective equipment (PPE)

24. Requirement for full Colour No

Description Requirement Additional Information

vision

25. Work with energetics and No

explosives

26. Exposure to Petrol, Oil, Lubricant No

Products that may cause

dermatological conditions

27. Exposure to extreme No

temperatures

28. Confined spaces No

29. Exposure to Non-ionising No

radiation

30. Excessive Noise No

31. Low Lighting No

32. Dangerous Goods/ Equipment No

33. Exposure to airborne odours No

Travel

34. Frequent travel - Vehicle No

35. Frequent travel - Aeroplane No

36. Frequent travel - Seaborne No

Cyclic Workload

37. Peaks & Troughs No

38. Frequent Overtime No

39. Rostered Shift Work No