# Deputy Director of Analytics & Insights

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Trust Headquarters
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Director
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £96,626 - £111,084 Per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-20T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01T08:34:58.364Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Leatherhead/Surrey_Borders_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Corporate/Corporate-v8262638
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8262638?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sabp.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### 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

Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Significant senior leadership experience in BI/analytics/data within NHS or a comparable complex regulated environment.
- Track record of designing and delivering an analytics operating model (demand management, prioritisation, standards, governance, adoption).
- Experience of providing executive-level assurance and narrative, turning complex datasets into clear insight and decision options.
- Experience implementing metric definitions/ownership frameworks and improving data quality and trust.
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, set standards, and deliver change at pace.

**Desirable**

- Experience leading advanced analytics (modelling, forecasting, scenario analysis, productivity/capacity analysis) and evaluation-style work to inform strategic decisions.
- Experience developing business cases/option appraisals.
- Experience operating at system level (ICS/region) and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Experience of using and implementing FDP solutions.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant field (data/analytics/informatics/statistics/health/engineering/economics)
- Evidence of continuing professional development in analytics, data governance, digital/data platforms, or improvement

**Desirable**

- Postgraduate qualification (MSc, MBA, Masters in statistics/data science)
- Professional accreditation/recognised training aligned to senior NHS data roles

## Documents

- [vacancy links (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2727)
- [carers information (pdf, 604.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2716)
- [sabp competency profile map (pdf, 672.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2714)
- [mindful employer information (pdf, 195.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2715)
- [benefits of nhs pension scheme (pdf, 264.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2717)
- [8d deputy director of analytics (pdf, 153.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10576631)

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