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Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Business Intelligence Lead
Swindon On-site 10+ yrs exp Hospitals and Health Care 1,848 employees
Business IntelligenceData AnalysisData WarehousingPower BISQL
Requirements
Requires a master's degree or equivalent relevant knowledge and experience, ongoing professional development, and a recognised health informatics qualification or equivalent experience. Candidates should have significant senior-level experience delivering performance targets and technical strategies, strong BI and data warehouse skills, and exceptional leadership and stakeholder communication abilities.
Job Description
Job Summary
Fixed Term or secondment opportunity
The Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is excited to offer an opportunity for an ambitious individual to join our Data and Informatics team as a Business Intelligence Lead on a Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2027.
We are looking for a dynamic, forward thinking individual to work closely with the Data Warehouse and Informatics teams within the Trust to enable the successful delivery of effective reporting.
To be successful in this role you will have a real eye for detail, an analytical mind-set, excellent communication skills and a willingness to adapt your approach with our stakeholders and interpret requirements with the enthusiasm to get the job done to the highest standards.
Experience of working with NHS data is highly desirable but candidates without a previous NHS background will be considered provided they can demonstrate significant technical proficiency in BI and DWH toolsets such as PowerBI and SQL.
Main duties of the job
As a Business Intelligence Lead you are the key information leads for the Senior Analysts at the Trust.As such they need to:
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
We are creating a heath and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Person Specification
Education Essential
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
Fixed Term or secondment opportunity
The Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is excited to offer an opportunity for an ambitious individual to join our Data and Informatics team as a Business Intelligence Lead on a Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2027.
We are looking for a dynamic, forward thinking individual to work closely with the Data Warehouse and Informatics teams within the Trust to enable the successful delivery of effective reporting.
To be successful in this role you will have a real eye for detail, an analytical mind-set, excellent communication skills and a willingness to adapt your approach with our stakeholders and interpret requirements with the enthusiasm to get the job done to the highest standards.
Experience of working with NHS data is highly desirable but candidates without a previous NHS background will be considered provided they can demonstrate significant technical proficiency in BI and DWH toolsets such as PowerBI and SQL.
Main duties of the job
As a Business Intelligence Lead you are the key information leads for the Senior Analysts at the Trust.As such they need to:
- Quickly acquire a broad understanding of the data for their area and within a year become the expert
- Own the clarity between Information and the relevant Division as to agreed reporting and ensure its timely delivery and support ongoing development.
- Take responsibility for delivery, solving problems as they arise and escalating by exception when needed.
- Review information for their area monthly and brief both their own team and the relevant division on anything material or noteworthy.
- Be the main contact with their Division for the above and for any ad-hoc analysis or modelling, with front line responsibility for the information service provided to their Division
- Advice and guidance to the rest of the team based on their skills and experience with an expectation that each senior analysts will have a particular area of high level skills/knowledge to share (e.g. analysis, reporting systems, SQL, operational needs etc..)
- Promoting a focus on what the data means and the story rather than just the number and deputise for Head of Business Intelligence, both internally and externally.
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
We are creating a heath and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.
Job Description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake and manage projects across the full range of data collection, collation, analysis and presentation activities
- To continually look to enhance the format of information provided and seek to provide innovative solutions to help inform decision-making across the Trust.
- Lead on delivery of key projects across the Divisions.
- To provide information to colleagues within the divisional team, and on occasion with external colleagues regarding the interpretation of data and information, the presentation of information and the understanding of statistical and analytical methods.
Person Specification
Education Essential
- Master's Degree or relevant equivalent knowledge & experience related to analysis or information management
- Evidence of on-going development and continuous learning
- Recognised Health Informatics qualification or equivalent experience
- General Management qualification
- Recognised qualification in programme methodology at practitioner level, e.g. Managing Successful Programmes, or equivalent experience in programme management
- Significant experience working at senior management level, successfully taking responsibility for meeting a wide range of service and business performance targets
- Experience of the delivery of a complex technical strategy in a medium/large organisation (preferably within healthcare)
- Experience of providing self service tools using products such as Tableau/QlikView/SSRS and able to support such a development
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills with experience of dealing directly with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of implementing improvement, monitoring change and assisting staff in changing their working practices.
- Experience of using both quantitative and qualitative data to assess performance of complex organisations.
- Management and supervision of staff including appraisals and sickness management.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
Education
Postgraduate DegreeProfessional Certificate
Skills
Business IntelligenceData AnalysisData WarehousingPower BISQLReportingStatistical AnalysisPerformance MonitoringProject ManagementLeadershipStakeholder CommunicationService ImprovementData InterpretationSelf-Service Reporting
About Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top three Trusts to work for in the South West. We employ almost 5,500 staff and serve a population of over 750,000 across Wiltshire and neighbouring counties. Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides acute hospital services (at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon) and community health services across Wiltshire. These services include community hospitals, community nursing and therapy, and children's and young people's services.
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