Band 8a - Business Partner - Analytics

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Enfield; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits in a leading NHS trust for a Business Partner - Analytics. This role is pivotal in providing analytical support to enhance decision-making processes within the healthcare sector. The successful candidate will leverage their extensive knowledge of NHS reporting to transform data into actionable insights. With a focus on team leadership and strategic implementation, you will play a key role in driving improvements in patient care. Join a dynamic organization that values innovation and offers unparalleled career growth opportunities in a supportive environment. If you're ready to make a significant impact in healthcare, this role is for you.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Generous benefits

Next level training

Qualifications

• Experience in NHS healthcare reporting and analytics is essential.
• Leadership experience in managing teams and developing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for decision support reporting and analytics.
• Manage and coordinate activities of a team of analysts.

Skills

NHS healthcare reporting

Data analysis

Team leadership

Decision support reporting

Data protection and confidentiality

Education

Masters Degree or equivalent experience

Professional memberships

Tools

Patient Administration Systems (PAS)

Job description

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Employer: Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Enfield Civic Centre
Town: Enfield
Salary: £59,490 - £66,239 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59

Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research, and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Information Management Team for a highly skilled Business Partner - Analytics.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record in a senior position within an information team, with extensive knowledge of NHS healthcare reporting. They will be a natural leader, with the ability to develop and motivate staff. This position requires an adaptable, forward thinker who thrives on change. You will need to be understanding of client requirements and able to innovate ensuring that data becomes information and with your team turns into insight enabling the Trust to perform at its best.

You will be expected to quickly develop an understanding of the business of healthcare provision, to support and lead on quality decision making through provision of excellent analytical support. You will be an integral member of the hospital information team and be expected to contribute to the development, agreement and implementation of priorities.

Main duties of the job

The Business Partner is responsible for decision support reporting analytics: collating, reporting, analysing and presenting data-support information for all aspects of his/her areas of responsibility and for managing and coordinating the activities of a team of analysts.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6 million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17 million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Full details of the job and responsibilities of this role are in the job description.

This role is within the Information Management department.

Person specification

Royal Free World Class Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & professional Qualifications

• Educated to Masters Degree level or equivalent experience
• Professional memberships and management qualifications or relevant experience
• Evidence of continuing personal development

Experience

• Significant experience of successful development and maintenance of policies, procedures and day to day working practices in a reporting and analytics environment
• Experience of leading and managing teams
• Experience of NHS information systems sufficient to have gained an in-depth knowledge of the way data is held on Trust’s Patient Administration Systems (PAS) (including the use of PAS query languages)
• Experience of conducting detailed analysis of complex data sets or processes to identify root causes and solutions to problems.
• Experience of developing and managing implementation of cross-organisation support and improvement plans
• Experience of analysing complex data and intelligence and coordinating the work of team members to do so; and then to work with and influence senior managers to diagnose & resolve these issues and provide decision support to a range of stakeholders
• Demonstrable experience of developing strategies, implementation plans and identification of resource requirements.
• Thorough understanding and experience of managing confidentiality, data protection requirements and the frameworks set out in the NHS Information Governance Toolkit

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Please note:

• Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
• Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
• Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.