Reports Technical Lead

NHS; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in London is seeking a full-time Reports Technical Lead to oversee the development and maintenance of business intelligence reports. The successful candidate will possess a Master's degree and substantial experience in an information analysis role within healthcare, particularly in using SQL and Power BI. This role involves leading projects and providing technical support to ensure high-quality reporting to improve clinical care.

Qualifications

• Understanding of activity recording and reporting in healthcare environments.
• Expertise in using relational databases and complex SQL.
• Ability to interpret complex data and produce management information.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of complex BI reports for management decision making.
• Provide ongoing support and training in advanced reporting skills.
• Ensure high standards in BI report development and maintenance.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data analysis

Data visualisation (Power BI)

Communication skills

Project delivery

Education

Master's degree or equivalent professional experience

Tools

Power BI

SQL

MS Excel

Job description

Overview

UCLH is seeking a full time permanent Reports Technical Lead to join the Business Intelligence Reports team. The post holder is a key technical expert of the reports team responsible for ensuring high standards of BI report development and maintenance. The post holder will lead projects within a team of report developers to support management decision making across the Trust, enabling high quality clinical care, and ensuring that internal and external reporting obligations are met. UCLH supports flexible working including hybrid working; candidates are encouraged to discuss this with the recruiting manager as part of the recruitment process.

Main duties

• Provide ongoing, hands-on support to the Reports team in developing and applying advanced technical and visualisation skills in reporting, including script optimisation. Serve as a go-to resource for troubleshooting, tool usage, and system navigation to enhance individual and team technical proficiency. Work alongside team members to reinforce learning through real-time problem solving and practical application.
• Lead on projects to produce new complex and sophisticated BI reports and to work with the divisional information teams and other customers to ensure these reports clearly and accurately communicate relevant information.

About us

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

• Essential: Masters degree level or equivalent professional experience within a healthcare information environment
• Essential: Understanding of activity recording and reporting including waiting lists, A&E, cancelled operations, SUS, workforce
• Essential: Understanding of data retrieval, data processing, information analysis and interpretation within acute hospitals
• Essential: Specialist knowledge of data analysis and visualisation, statistical modelling and quantitative service evaluation techniques

Experience

• Essential: Substantial experience in an information analysis role in an NHS or other healthcare information environment
• Essential: Substantial experience of working with relational databases, including complex SQL
• Essential: Substantial experience of using Power BI or equivalent data visualisation tool
• Essential: Track record of project delivery at a complex level in a large service focused organisation
• Desirable: Experience of using Epic BI stack, including developing Radar, Slicer Diver, Reporting Workbench contents

Skills and Abilities

• Essential: Knowledge of information analysis and the use of information across the NHS acquired through degree or equivalent experience
• Essential: Ability to interrogate databases using Advanced SQL
• Essential: Ability to interpret complex data
• Essential: Ability to convert data to management information
• Essential: Advanced use of MS Excel
• Essential: Advanced use of Power BI or equivalent data visualisation tool
• Essential: Ability to independently interpret the requirements of information users and present detailed, complex reports that can be understood by a wide audience
• Essential: Ability to design and develop information processing systems
• Essential: Understanding of data quality issues and how these relate to the organisation as a whole
• Essential: Understanding of the Acute Healthcare business environment
• Essential: Ability to produce clear and comprehensive documentation for BI and data transformation processes
• Desirable: Use of R and/or Python for predictive analytics
• Desirable: Understanding of SharePoint

Communication

• Essential: Ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels
• Essential: Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Essential: Ability to train and develop information staff in the advanced use of reporting systems, including visualisation and script optimisation
• Essential: Ability to communicate on issues which can be complex and multi-stranded
• Essential: Effective leadership of staff

Planning and Organisation

• Essential: Ability to plan, prioritise and meet deadlines

Other

• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require submission for Disclosure to the DBS to check for any previous convictions.
• Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside other applications.