Business Intelligence Facilitator

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Previous applicants need not apply.

The Business Intelligence Facilitator will bring a passion to improve how we use intelligence to support our clinical services and deliver best patient outcomes.

You will bring a sound grounding in how we use information in the NHS to bring about improvement, experience of project management and service improvement and a strong commitment to your personal development and effectiveness in this area.

You will help ensure that our operational management and clinical teams use business intelligence effectively to support service management, planning, performance and improvement. You will collaborate with colleagues to provide a responsive BI service to meet their needs.

The Trust has begun an ambitious programme of digital transformation, and you will help ensure that the business intelligence benefits are fully realised.

Main duties of the job

You will work closely with Clinical leaders, operational Service Managers, and BI colleagues, across our sites and services, to ensure that information and analysis is aligned to their needs and priorities.

You will have a sound knowledge of NHS information systems, data quality, targets and metrics. You will have an awareness of the annual planning cycle, key policy drivers, standards and mandates that our services must meet.

You will have experience of the use of information for excellence in operational delivery and service improvement. You will have a technical skill set in informatics to query complex data sets .

Ideally you will bring experience in project management and you may have NHS operational management experience. You will use your organisational skills to deliver a complex workload. You will possess excellent communication skills and the ability to building working relationships.

This post is a fantastic opportunity to connect business intelligence ever closer to our front-line services, ensuring they have the right information and insight to deliver the best patient outcomes.

About us

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Date posted

30 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

328-CP-6283386

Job locations

The James Cook University Hospital

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW


Job description

Job responsibilities

Details of the full job description and person specification are available to view when you click to apply for the vacancy and click on the about this job link and the documents will be attached at the bottom of the screen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Details of the full job description and person specification are available to view when you click to apply for the vacancy and click on the about this job link and the documents will be attached at the bottom of the screen.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree or equivalent experience in health management, health information, data science or a related field.
  • GCSE or equivalent in English Language and mathematics

Desirable

  • Masters level degree completed or in progress or equivalent experience of working at senior level in a specialist area demonstrating equivalent critical thinking skills.
  • Evidence of relevant professional development

Knowledge

Essential

  • Data manipulation, analysis and visualisation to create queries and reports
  • Ability to present information to inform decision making within organisations, translating highly complex information to clear messages for non-specialist
  • NHS Information requirements and data flows and data standards and governance.
  • Ability to manage and deliver multiple projects simultaneously to deadlines.
  • Medical and NHS terminology
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Office products, in particular, Access and Excel

Desirable

  • Project management
  • In-depth knowledge of NHS systems
  • Statistics
  • Knowledge of and experience working with SQL.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in a data analytics role
  • Proven experience of applying business intelligence in an NHS service context
  • Use NHS information systems in practice
  • Proven ability to engage with services translate functional user requirements into metrics and reports.
  • Experience of working with or within clinical services

Desirable

  • Experience of successfully delivering change and service improvement projects and initiatives.
  • Experience of successful collaboration with clinical staff.
  • Use of NHS intelligence resources and tools (Tableau, Benchmarking, Getting Right First Time, Model Hospital, etc)
  • SQL experience
  • Operational management experience in the NHS.
  • Experience working and developing with Microsoft BI solutions (including SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS and Power BI)
  • Experience of managing informatics projects.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree or equivalent experience in health management, health information, data science or a related field.
  • GCSE or equivalent in English Language and mathematics

Desirable

  • Masters level degree completed or in progress or equivalent experience of working at senior level in a specialist area demonstrating equivalent critical thinking skills.
  • Evidence of relevant professional development

Knowledge

Essential

  • Data manipulation, analysis and visualisation to create queries and reports
  • Ability to present information to inform decision making within organisations, translating highly complex information to clear messages for non-specialist
  • NHS Information requirements and data flows and data standards and governance.
  • Ability to manage and deliver multiple projects simultaneously to deadlines.
  • Medical and NHS terminology
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Office products, in particular, Access and Excel

Desirable

  • Project management
  • In-depth knowledge of NHS systems
  • Statistics
  • Knowledge of and experience working with SQL.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in a data analytics role
  • Proven experience of applying business intelligence in an NHS service context
  • Use NHS information systems in practice
  • Proven ability to engage with services translate functional user requirements into metrics and reports.
  • Experience of working with or within clinical services

Desirable

  • Experience of successfully delivering change and service improvement projects and initiatives.
  • Experience of successful collaboration with clinical staff.
  • Use of NHS intelligence resources and tools (Tableau, Benchmarking, Getting Right First Time, Model Hospital, etc)
  • SQL experience
  • Operational management experience in the NHS.
  • Experience working and developing with Microsoft BI solutions (including SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS and Power BI)
  • Experience of managing informatics projects.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW


Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW


Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Senior Information Manager - Performance

Paul Brown

paul.brown18@nhs.net

01642835760

Date posted

30 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

328-CP-6283386

Job locations

The James Cook University Hospital

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW


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