Senior Information Manager
Job summary
This is a senior, specialist and highly influential role within HPFT's Performance and Analytics function. The post holder will provide strategic leadership for the development, interpretation and presentation of complex healthcare intelligence to support Trust and system priorities, including quality, safety, performance, access, activity, workforce and finance. The role requires expert knowledge of NHS information standards, data quality, reporting requirements and analytical methods, combined with advanced technical capability in SQL and modern business intelligence tooling.
Main duties of the job
Provide senior analytical leadership, setting standards and direction for performance and business intelligence outputs.Lead the assurance of enterprise data models, definitions, business rules and KPI specifications.
Use advanced SQL and associated tooling to extract, transform, validate and analyse complex, multi-source datasets, including automation of repeatable reporting processes.
Undertake and quality assure complex analysis and support the interpretation of results to inform strategic planning, performance recovery and service improvement.
Provide expert advice to senior stakeholders on the interpretation and appropriate use of information.
Support information governance aspects of analytical delivery: data quality management, data standards compliance, information asset considerations, documentation and change control for information products.
Lead and manage a team of analysts (as defined locally), including workload planning, objective setting, capability development, supervision, appraisal and performance management.
Lead and contribute to high-impact analytics and BI projects, influencing cross-functional stakeholders and embedding sustainable, self-service information solutions where appropriate.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide senior, specialist analytical leadership, setting standards and direction for performance and business intelligence outputs across assigned portfolios and (where required) Trust-wide.
Lead the design, development and assurance of enterprise data models, definitions, business rules and KPI specifications, ensuring products are consistent, traceable and auditable.
Use advanced SQL and associated tooling to extract, transform, validate and analyse complex, multi-source datasets (clinical, operational, workforce and finance), including automation of repeatable reporting processes.
Undertake and quality assure complex analysis (including trend, variation, benchmarking and triangulation) and interpret results to inform strategic planning, performance recovery and service improvement.
Provide expert advice to senior stakeholders on the interpretation and appropriate use of information, highlighting assumptions, limitations, risks, and the implications of different options.
Lead on information governance aspects of analytical delivery: data quality management, data standards compliance, information asset considerations, documentation and change control for information products.
Deliver and assure complex statutory and national submissions and internal reporting (as required), ensuring timeliness, accuracy and alignment to published guidance and definitions.
Lead and manage a team of analysts (as defined locally), including workload planning, objective setting, capability development, supervision, appraisal and performance management.
Lead and contribute to high-impact analytics and BI projects/programmes, influencing cross-functional stakeholders and embedding sustainable, self-service information solutions where appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Education / Training
- Degree level qualification (or equivalent level of acquired knowledge and experience) in informatics, data analytics, statistics, computer science, health information or a related discipline.
- Evidence of advanced specialist training and ongoing CPD in information management/BI (e.g., advanced SQL, dimensional modelling, data quality methods, Power BI/DAX or equivalent).
- Postgraduate qualification or equivalent evidence of advanced practice in analytics/informatics (e.g., MSc, PgCert/PGDip, or relevant professional accreditation).
Previous Experience
- Significant experience delivering complex NHS analytical products (dashboards, reports, models and insight) to inform strategic and operational decision-making.
- Experience of working with senior stakeholders to define requirements, agree definitions and influence delivery of change based on insight and evidence.
- Experience of national/statutory submissions and/or working to published national definitions and guidance (e.g., MHSDS and other national returns).
- Experience implementing or operating data governance approaches (e.g., data quality frameworks, metadata/cataloguing, KPI dictionaries, documentation and change control).
Skills / Knowledge / Ability
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present complex, sensitive and occasionally contentious information clearly to non-technical audiences, including senior managers and clinicians.
- Experience with Power BI
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
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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
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The Colonnades
Beaconsfield Road
Hatfield
AL10 8YE
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/