Job requirements
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Essential
7 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant senior leadership experience in BI/analytics/data within NHS or a comparable complex regulated environment.
- Experience
Track record of designing and delivering an analytics operating model (demand management, prioritisation, standards, governance, adoption).
- Experience
Experience of providing executive-level assurance and narrative, turning complex datasets into clear insight and decision options.
- Experience
Experience implementing metric definitions/ownership frameworks and improving data quality and trust.
- Experience
Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, set standards, and deliver change at pace.
- Qualifications
Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant field (data/analytics/informatics/statistics/health/engineering/economics)
- Qualifications
Evidence of continuing professional development in analytics, data governance, digital/data platforms, or improvement
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience leading advanced analytics (modelling, forecasting, scenario analysis, productivity/capacity analysis) and evaluation-style work to inform strategic decisions.
- Experience
Experience developing business cases/option appraisals.
- Experience
Experience operating at system level (ICS/region) and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Experience
Experience of using and implementing FDP solutions.
- Qualifications
Postgraduate qualification (MSc, MBA, Masters in statistics/data science)
- Qualifications
Professional accreditation/recognised training aligned to senior NHS data roles
Job overview
The Deputy Director of Analytics and Insights is the Trust’s senior leader for data, insight and analytics; setting the vision, operating model and standards that make SABP an insight-driven organisation. The postholder ensures executive, divisional and operational decision-making is consistently supported by timely, trusted, decision-grade insight, and builds a strategic analytics capability that moves beyond reporting to explain, predict and improve outcomes and productivity.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will lead an integrated analytics service that:
- provides a single, transparent route for analytics demand, prioritisation and delivery.
- establishes metric ownership, definitions and data governance to deliver a single version of truth.
- modernises and rationalises the reporting and dashboard estate to focus capacity on high value insight.
- builds strategic analytics capability to support quality, safety, performance, productivity and inequalities; and
- delivers the Trust’s Business Intelligence (BI) optimisation change programme through the Digital Strategy Implementation portfolio with measurable outcomes and adoption.
This is a senior leadership role operating across Trust priorities, with influence across clinical, operational, corporate and digital leadership
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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This advert is for Deputy Director of Analytics & Insights with Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Leatherhead, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Director role. The advertised salary is £96,626 - £111,084 Per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 20 Sep 2026.
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