Information Business Partner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Relationship Management Business Partnering

Regularly meet with the Care Group leadership team to understand their business priorities and offer analytical support, this will involve the communication of negative and positive information to stakeholders and can manage their expectations.

Present complex analysis to non-informaticians, including board members.

Lead on business planning processes for the Care Group services, ensuring data meets published national guidance.

Develop and maintain effective working relationships with managers, system users, systems administrators, information analysts and support staff.

Business Intelligence

Responsible for the planning, management, and implementation of complex analytical tasks.

Responsible for ensuring regular reports are accurately maintained, and undertakes regular audits to ensure reporting remains fit for purpose.

Required to interpret and resolve highly complex statistical/information problems where there is no precedent or where leading opinions may conflict.

Appropriately communicate conclusions drawn from, and implications of results from statistical and performance analyses to a wide range of internal and external staff, guiding them on a certain course of action. Conveys statistical concepts clearly and develops and delivers formal, complex statistical presentations to large groups

Mandatory & Statutory Data Submissions

Accountable for ensuring informatics reporting adheres to published national guidance.

Accountable for ensuring specified mandatory and statutory returns are accurate and submitted within deadlines.

Accountable for ensuring appropriate FOIs and Clinical Audit datasets are submitted accurately and within deadlines

Staff Management

You will apply innovative approaches to resolve business and team issues.

Manage allocated staff, including recruitment, induction, setting workload priorities, delegating tasks, day-to-day management, monitoring performance, carrying out appraisals, identifying training needs facilitating staff personal development, acting as lead specialist and maintaining professional standards.

Plan, prioritise and co-ordinate staff on-going and project workload to achieve team and section objectives within agreed timescales.

Responsible for defining, implementing and monitoring internal procedures and standards within the functions managed to ensure effective governance, reliable high-quality outputs, business continuity, and effective documentation of processes.

Promote a culture where staff feel empowered and accountable for the service they provide and managers are supported to lead, motivate and develop staff who feel valued.

Responsible for defining, implementing and monitoring internal procedures and standards within the functions managed to ensure effective governance, reliable high-quality outputs, business continuity, and effective documentation of processes.

Freedom to Act

Manage the team in-line with corporate strategy, setting standards and ethos to meet business needs and deliver agreed benefits, utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality.

Balance workload, provide technical and analytical guidance and work direction of team, including scheduling, assignment of work, review of project efforts and removal of blocks which inhibit project success.Departmental Responsibilities

Deputise for the Deputy Head of Business during periods of absence providing management and leadership support alongside normal responsibilities.

Lead complex projects, supporting planning and implementation ensuring resources are effectively utilised.

Work on projects as is reasonable to expect of a Trust senior manager as required by the Deputy Director of Information and Chief Analytical Officer.

Where applicable responsible for adherence to nationally reported guidance.

Where applicable responsible for mandatory and statutory returns, include sign-off when required.

Responsible for expenses and rostering for self and any direct reports.

Will contribute to and manage the delivery of the Information Strategy.

Ensure training and mentoring is undertaken in line with departmental standards.

Oversee or lead any performance management issues where applicable.

Adhere to and responsible for maintaining the departmental reporting guidelines.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A good honours degree in relevant subject
• Masters or equivalent in relevant subject

Desirable

• Project Management or Technical qualification
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Skills

Essential

• Analyse data for information and/or performance measurement
• Deploy problem-solving skills to work with stakeholders to define requirements for analytical work
• You look beyond initial requirements, challenge assumptions and generate insight.
• Statistical methodologies and data modelling concepts
• Generate and communicate insight verbally, visually and in writing to a range of end users of varied data literacy
• Familiarity with the implementation of BI reporting platforms (e.g. Power BI, Qlik, Tableau, etc.)

Desirable

• Able to form a deep understanding of NHS business goals and turn these into performance measures
• Advanced theoretical or practical understanding of the NHS, its clinical environment and key developments shaping the information agenda (or equivalent)
• Minimum 3 years in the NHS, or wider health market, in a senior information or management role
• Fluent in summary statistics, data visualisation and feature selection

Personal attributes

Essential

• Advanced leadership skills including the ability to form excellent relationships with a range of stakeholders
• High standard of written, verbal and data driven communication skills
• The ability to plan, prioritise and delegate efficiently

Desirable

• Management experience within the informatics environment

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).

Employer details

Employer name

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kent & Canterbury Hospital

Ethelbert Road

Canterbury

CT1 3NG

Employer's website

https://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/ (Opens in a new tab)