Head of Business Insight

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Business Insights team by setting clear objectives, providing mentorship, and promoting a collaborative and positive culture. Foster professional growth opportunities to ensure the team achieves high performance and contributes effectively to the Groups strategic objectives.
• Implement advanced data science methods, integrating a variety of data sources to produce actionable insights that enhance evidence-based decision-making. Ensure insights are aligned with both clinical and operational needs, driving improvements and strategic outcomes across various areas within the Group.
• Lead the optimisation of data models and architecture to ensure scalability, flexibility, and alignment with the Groups strategic goals. Collaborate with Business Intelligence teams to enhance capabilities in real-time analysis, accurate forecasting, and effective resource allocation and management.
• Lead the development, deployment, and continuous improvement of machine learning models within clinical and administrative settings. Ensure models are monitored, refined, and transparent to optimise efficiency, enhance decision-making, and improve overall patient care and outcomes.
• Oversee the application of advanced statistical methods to analyse healthcare data, ensuring models provide accurate insights for clinical and business objectives. Support trend analysis, outcome measurement, and evidence-based decision-making, helping shape policies and strategies based on reliable data.
• Lead the development of analytics frameworks to support planning activities, creating data-driven models that align operational plans with performance and resource requirements. Ensure the frameworks provide effective solutions for both short-term and long-term strategic planning efforts across the Group.
• Manage the budget and resources for the Business Insights team, identifying cost-saving opportunities and ensuring efficient resource use. Provide financial reports to senior management and support policy development related to Information Management, ensuring alignment with national guidelines.
• Promote continuous learning and development opportunities within the team, ensuring compliance with mandatory training and adherence to NHS managerial standards. Support personal objective setting and reviews aligned with Groups goals, encouraging a culture of professional growth.

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/

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We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MSc in Information Management, Data Science, Business Intelligence, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Relevant professional qualifications in Business Intelligence tools (e.g., Microsoft Power BI, SQL certification).
• Evidence of continuing professional development (e.g., courses in leadership, management, or technical expertise related to Data Science/Statistics).

• Postgraduate degree in Healthcare Data Management, Analytics, or a related discipline.

Experience

• Experience as a Senior Manager within an NHS organisation in a performance, informatics or commissioning setting.
• Experience within an acute hospital setting.
• Proven record of leading complex, multi-faceted management systems relating to performance and/or planning.
• Demonstrable evidence of working at immediate sub-Board level.
• Significant experience of delivering complex strategic and operational planning data.
• Experience of business planning and preparation of business cases.
• Ability to give formal presentations.
• Significant experience of delivering complex strategic and operational planning frameworks

• Experience of partnership working, evidence of playing a major role in an organisational change

Knowledge

• Knowledge of national policy and developments within the NHS.
• Sound knowledge base of the NHS, the current issues, its values and principles of timely local access for the population.
• Exceptionally high level of numeracy and ability in health based statistical modelling.

Skills

• Excellent leadership and management skills, with the ability to motivate, develop, and manage teams effectively.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to design, develop, and implement scalable data solutions.
• Proficiency in Data Science tools and programming languages for data interrogation and analysis.
• Effective communication and presentation skills, able to translate complex data insights into actionable information for diverse audiences.
• Skilled in budgeting, resource management, and strategic planning to support organisational priorities.
• Strong IT skills, particularly in the use of Microsoft Office applications, databases, and data science tools.

• Exceptionally high level of numeracy and ability in health based statistical modelling.
• Strong skills within Microsoft data and analytics toolsets and cloud platform

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

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Group Wide

Hull/Grimsby/Scunthorpe

DN33 2BA

https://www.nlg.nhs.uk/