# Business Intelligence Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/business-intelligence-lead/b0a89020-bfe5-4c82-b0a6-1220ed1799cb - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/business-intelligence-lead/b0a89020-bfe5-4c82-b0a6-1220ed1799cb.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Great Western Hospital - **Workplace type:** hybrid - **Profession:** Data analyst - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 Per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** 6 months (Fixed Term - End Date 31/03/2027) - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-23T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-09T10:11:09.015Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Wiltshire/Swindon/Great_Western_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Digital_Data_Data_Analytics/Digital_Data_Data_Analytics-v8355650 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8355650?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gwh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Education **Essential** - Master’s Degree or relevant equivalent knowledge & experience related to analysis or information management - Evidence of on-going development and continuous learning - Recognised Health Informatics qualification or equivalent experience **Desirable** - General Management qualification - Recognised qualification in programme methodology at practitioner level, e.g. Managing Successful Programmes, or equivalent experience in programme management ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience working at senior management level, successfully taking responsibility for meeting a wide range of service and business performance targets - Experience of the delivery of a complex technical strategy in a medium/large organisation (preferably within healthcare) - Experience of providing self service tools using products such as Tableau/QlikView/SSRS and able to support such a development - Exceptional leadership and communication skills with experience of dealing directly with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. - Experience of implementing improvement, monitoring change and assisting staff in changing their working practices. **Desirable** - Experience of using both quantitative and qualitative data to assess performance of complex organisations. - Management and supervision of staff including appraisals and sickness management. ## Documents - [gwh bi lead (pdf, 144.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10681560) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.