Director of Analytics and Insights

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:

- applied for a Graduate visa

- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment

This vacancy will close at midnight on 30th November 2025

Interviews are due to be held on 15th December 2025

Please note: this post may be closed earlier is a high number of applications are received.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters Degree Level education or equivalent, gained in a health delivery related subject
• Significant experience in the healthcare sector at senior level.

• PhD or advanced degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience as a Senior Manager within an NHS organisation in a performance, informatics or commissioning setting
• Sound knowledge base of the NHS, the current issues, its values and principles of timely local access for the population
• Experience within an acute hospital setting
• Exceptionally high level of numeracy and ability in health based statistical modelling
• Proven record of leading complex, multi- faceted management systems relating to performance and/or planning
• A strategic thinker with highly developed communication and negotiation skills, coupled with commercial acumen
• Demonstrable evidence of working at immediately sub-Board level
• Significant experience of delivering complex strategic and operational planning data
• Strong networker and relationship builder
• Ability to give formal presentations
• Significant experience of delivering complex strategic and operational planning frameworks
• Demonstrable evidence of managing specialist multi-disciplinary staff as a coherent team
• Proven experience in a senior data science or advanced analytics leadership role, preferably within healthcare or a related field
• In-depth knowledge of data science techniques, including machine learning, AI, predictive analytics, and big data technologies
• Strong track record of delivering complex data science projects that improve business or clinical outcomes
• Knowledge of healthcare NHS data systems, electronic health records, data architecture, and NHS data governance regulations
• Excellent leadership and team management skills with experience in building and leading data science teams
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data insights into actionable recommendations for non-technical stakeholders

• Experience of partnership working, evidence of playing a major role in an organisational change programme
• Experience in the deployment of an NHS Electronic Patient Record systems and associated data management/reporting
• Formal project management training
• Presentation/media experience

Setting Direction

• Political astuteness, understanding what can and cannot be delivered at senior level
• A proven ability to obtain and consistently achieve results and targets
• The ability to shape the future and bring staff with you
• Proven ability to deal with wide range of data and information and take appropriate decisions from it
• A proven ability to come up with flexible and creative solutions to difficult problems
• High end IT skills, with demonstrable evidence of power user abilities in MS Excel

Delivering the service

• Excellent collaborative working skills and able to build strong relationships with clinical leaders and professional staff groups, and a proven ability to influence and change those groups
• Effective and strategic influencing skills at all levels in the organisation including influencing Trust Board
• Proven ability of leading change through people
• A management style that empowers others and evidence of successfully driving a learning coaching culture for all staff in your area of control
• Holding to account others to ensure they deliver to their targets and dealing effectively with performance
• Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive information to senior managers, staff, patients and external agencies

Drive for improvement

• A deep motivation to drive and improve performance in the service and in others
• The confidence to succeed and overcome individual and organisational obstacles
• Being able to manage own emotions and be resilient in a range of complex and demanding situations

Personal Integrity

• A strong commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness and high standards in leadership

Additional Requirements

• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent.

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.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Addenbrookes Hospital-Division Corporate

Hills Road

Cambridge

CB2 0QQ

Employer's website

https://www.cuh.nhs.uk