Quantium interview Flashcards
What is my current role
- Startup so mixed role
- Work with clients esp clinicians face to face on pathways
- Work with product designers and engineers on the pathway
- Work with informaticians on setting up the informatics
- Engaged with interviews for positions, formed gap analysis of roles needed and pitched to execs, accepted
- Led projects on clinical informatics including hiring the necessary staff and proposing a budget and sticking to the budget
- Presented to execs on gaps in our product and defining the problems encountered
- Personally also starting up an aesthetics business in my own time also learning MDR
What’s important to me / Why do you want this job / What do you look for in a job:
- Opportunity to work on solving new and difficult problems across a wide range of companies in the health tech sector.
- Develop stakeholder relationships with a wide range of people and opportunity to learn from experts in every field
- Develop myself across a range of industries and enhance my “strategic mindset” in any situation
- Further develop working with high level execs
- Enjoy the opportunity to travel and will make use of this
- Worked with a lot of ex-consultants and I admire their skillset
Where do you see yourself in 5 year’s time:
- Want to lead a team
- Develop strategy for the business
- Work closely with execs
- Want to combine my clinical, business, and advisory skills to work up to a position of senior leadership
what makes you right for this job
- Hands on experience at UHB on site, jumping into others’ teams and understanding what their problems actually are (beyond what they tell you their problems are)
- Able to wear many hats, adaptable and can understand problems in complex situations and clearly communicate those problems and help find solutions
- Developing SOP feeds into clinical governance cycle of continual improvement.
- Evidence of problem solving:
Creation of blocks to ensure end user has the most seamless experience possible whilst maintaining clinical rigour and safety
Blocks coding pitch
Blocks transformation problem defining
Refined operational process of creating a block - broke down complex pathway into steps and implemented efficiency steps. 10% less time to complete a block - Deep Clinical background
- resonate with quantium value - share your superpower
Give an example of a time you’ve pitched to a client:
- presented product to heartlands in person
- Attended QE on meetings to sell product
- Pitched to WS trust new pathway
- Led a pitch for a respiratory trial in London that was struggling to recruit.
Give an example of a time you’ve led a project:
- contact tracing SOP mid pandemic - reduced infection spread by estimated 50% + kept staff at work safely
- clinical coding project
- Designing epilepsy pathway for WS
- Descope the COPD pathway + safely offboard remaining patients
Have you had leadership experience?
- contact tracing SOP mid pandemic - reduced infection spread by estimated 50% + kept staff at work safely
- clinical coding project
- Designing epilepsy pathway for WS
Conflict resolution experience
Non clinical:
– Isinene slow speed + increased cost
- Conflict with CEO asking me to act above my station and question execs
Clinical:
- Depressed patient who had come to rely on fortnightly reviews to assess her mental health, indirectly threatened she may harm herself if she didn’t get them.
Whats your experience working with clients?
- presented product to heartlands in person
- Attended QE on meetings to sell product
- Pitched to WS trust new pathway - understanding of problem pathway wanted to fix using statistics. Nurses were underutilised but skilled enough to make decisions
- Led a pitch for a respiratory trial in London that was struggling to recruit.
3 Questions to ask
1) Heard UK branch of team is small - How big is the team and who’s in it?
2) How closely will I be working with you, Sunny?
3) What projects are you currently working on that you believe will make a valuable impact on the sector? / Tell me a bit more about Quail
How have you used AI in your work?
Used it to test clinical blocks.
Attempted to use it for SNOMED coding, wouldnt stop hallucinating answers - key is to understand limits of AI as well
Use it to help me understand complex topics more quickly, follow this up with reading around the topic to ensure good and correct understanding
Why quantium
- Global established consultancy with a strong reputation
- Market leaders in utilising real world data to drive decision making
- Respect their employees and treats them well
Which Quantium value resonates most with you
Share our superpowers - share strengths and help others discover theirs. Recently joined london health accelerator for social enterprise panel + mentorship
Drive for impact - own responsibility for tangible value. I have ownership mindset.
Tell me about a time you’ve managed ambiguity
Scoping of blocks - 80% of blocks target - company principle taken and used to meet a goal. Worked closely with CEO to meet this goal and ensure agreement
What are 3 biggest issues facing UK health sector currently?
Austerity and lack of capital leading to poor infrastructure
Demoralised workforce
Culture issues
