Job requirements
Essential
8 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Education
Master’s Degree or relevant equivalent knowledge & experience related to analysis or information management
- Education
Evidence of on-going development and continuous learning
- Education
Recognised Health Informatics qualification or equivalent experience
- Experience
Significant experience working at senior management level, successfully taking responsibility for meeting a wide range of service and business performance targets
- Experience
Experience of the delivery of a complex technical strategy in a medium/large organisation (preferably within healthcare)
- Experience
Experience of providing self service tools using products such as Tableau/QlikView/SSRS and able to support such a development
- Experience
Exceptional leadership and communication skills with experience of dealing directly with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience
Experience of implementing improvement, monitoring change and assisting staff in changing their working practices.
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Education
General Management qualification
- Education
Recognised qualification in programme methodology at practitioner level, e.g. Managing Successful Programmes, or equivalent experience in programme management
- Experience
Experience of using both quantitative and qualitative data to assess performance of complex organisations.
- Experience
Management and supervision of staff including appraisals and sickness management.
Job overview
Fixed Term or secondment opportunity
The Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is excited to offer an opportunity for an ambitious individual to join our Data and Informatics team as a Business Intelligence Lead on a Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2027.
We are looking for a dynamic, forward thinking individual to work closely with the Data Warehouse and Informatics teams within the Trust to enable the successful delivery of effective reporting.
To be successful in this role you will have a real eye for detail, an analytical mind-set, excellent communication skills and a willingness to adapt your approach with our stakeholders and interpret requirements with the enthusiasm to get the job done to the highest standards.
Experience of working with NHS data is highly desirable but candidates without a previous NHS background will be considered provided they can demonstrate significant technical proficiency in BI and DWH toolsets such as PowerBI and SQL.
Main duties of the job
As a Business Intelligence Lead you are the key information leads for the Senior Analysts at the Trust. As such they need to:
- Quickly acquire a broad understanding of the data for their area and within a year become the expert
- Own the clarity between Information and the relevant Division as to agreed reporting and ensure its timely delivery and support ongoing development.
- Take responsibility for delivery, solving problems as they arise and escalating by exception when needed.
- Review information for their area monthly and brief both their own team and the relevant division on anything material or noteworthy.
- Be the main contact with their Division for the above and for any ad-hoc analysis or modelling, with front line responsibility for the information service provided to their Division
The senior analysts and this role together with the Head of Business Intelligence are the core senior management team within Information. They will need to provide group leadership to support the wider team on an ongoing basis:
- Advice and guidance to the rest of the team based on their skills and experience with an expectation that each senior analysts will have a particular area of high level skills/knowledge to share (e.g. analysis, reporting systems, SQL, operational needs etc..)
- Promoting a focus on what the data means and the story rather than just the number and deputise for Head of Business Intelligence, both internally and externally.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Undertake and manage projects across the full range of data collection, collation, analysis and presentation activities
- To continually look to enhance the format of information provided and seek to provide innovative solutions to help inform decision-making across the Trust.
- Lead on delivery of key projects across the Divisions.
- To provide information to colleagues within the divisional team, and on occasion with external colleagues regarding the interpretation of data and information, the presentation of information and the understanding of statistical and analytical methods.
Please see the attached Job Description for full information.
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This advert is for Business Intelligence Lead with Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Data analyst role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 Per annum pro rata. The contract type is 6 months (Fixed Term - End Date 31/03/2027). The application deadline is 23 Oct 2026.
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