Reports Technical Lead

Job summary

UCLH is seeking a full time permanent Reports Technical Lead to join the Business Intelligence Reports team

The post holder is a key technical expert of the reports team responsible for ensuring high standards of Business Intelligence report development and maintenance. The postholder will be responsible to lead projects within a team of report developers to support management decision making across the Trust, enabling high quality clinical care, and ensuring that internal and external reporting obligations are met.

UCLH as an organisation is committed to offering flexible working including hybrid working and would encourage candidates to discuss this with the recruiting manager as part of the recruitment process.

Main duties of the job

o Provide ongoing, hands-on support to the Reports team in developing and applying advanced technical and visualisation skills in reporting, including script optimisation. Serve as a go-to resource for troubleshooting, tool usage, and system navigation to enhance individual and team technical proficiency. Work alongside team members to reinforce learning through real-time problem solving and practical application.o Lead on projects to produce new complex and sophisticated BI reports and to work with the divisional information teams and other customers to ensure these reports clearly and accurately communicate relevant information.

About us

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff To find out more, visit: Flexible working.

To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?

Person Specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential
  • Masters degree level or equivalent professional experience within a healthcare information environment
  • Understanding of activity recording and reporting, including: waiting lists, A&E, cancelled operations, SUS, workforce
  • Understanding of data retrieval, data processing, information analysis and interpretation within acute hospitals
  • Specialist knowledge of data analysis and visualisation, statistical modelling and quantitative service evaluation techniques

Experience

Essential
  • Substantial experience in an information analysis role in an NHS or other healthcare information environment
  • Substantial experience of working with relational databases, including complex SQL
  • Substantial experience of using Power BI or equivalent data visualisation tool
  • Track record of project delivery at a complex level in a large service focused organisation
Desirable
  • Experience of using Epic BI stack, including developing Radar, Slicer Diver, Reporting Workbench contents

Skills and Abilities

Essential
  • Knowledge of information analysis and the use of information across the NHS acquired through degree or equivalent experience
  • Ability to interrogate databases using Advanced SQL
  • Ability to interpret complex data
  • Ability to convert data to management information
  • Advanced use of MS Excel
  • Advanced use of Power BI or equivalent data visualisation tool
  • Ability to independently interpret the requirements of information users and present detailed, complex reports that can be understood by a wide audience.
  • Ability to design and develop information processing systems.
  • Understanding of data quality issues and how these relate to the organisation as a whole
  • Understanding of the Acute Healthcare business environment
  • Ability to produce clear and comprehensive documentation for BI and data transformation processes
Desirable
  • Use of R and/or Python for predictive analytics
  • Understanding of sharepoint

Communication

Essential
  • Ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels
  • Excellent Oral and Written Communication Skills
  • Ability to train and develop information staff in the advanced use of reporting systems, including visualisation and script optimisation
  • Ability to communicate on issues which can be complex and multi-stranded.
  • Effective leadership of staff

Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential
  • Ability to plan, prioritise and meet deadlines

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

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

University College London Hospital

250 Euston Road

London

NW1 2PG


Employer's website

https://www.uclh.nhs.uk

Company
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Location
London, United Kingdom NW1 2PG
Hybrid / WFH Options
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£64156.00 - £71148.00 a year
Posted
Company
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Location
London, United Kingdom NW1 2PG
Hybrid / WFH Options
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£64156.00 - £71148.00 a year
Posted