Senior Analyst - Band 7

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Lincoln; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Flexible working options

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Band 7 Senior Analyst to join the Corporate Nursing team in Lincoln. The role focuses on turning complex data into actionable insight to support assurance, improvement and decision making for nursing services and workforce planning.

You will develop accessible reports and dashboards, forecast demand and performance, and work with clinical, quality, workforce and finance colleagues to translate data into practical improvements.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent learning/experience.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and delivery of analytical and BI support for Corporate Nursing.
• Develop reports, dashboards and analyses for senior leaders.
• Identify trends, variation, risks and opportunities; forecast and model.
• Provide analytical support across wider Corporate Nursing portfolio.
• Translate complex information into clear recommendations and practical action.

Skills

Analytical thinking

NHS knowledge

Education

Degree or equivalent

Job description

Employer United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Lincoln County Hospital Town Lincoln Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 24/11/2026 23:59

Senior Analyst - Band 7

NHS AfC: Band 7

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

• Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
• Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
• Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment.

Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So,what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension:A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working:The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there ismore.

• Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing:including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Developmentincluding Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognitionincluding staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

Are you an experienced analyst who wants to see your work directly influence nursing services, workforce planning and patient care?

We are creating an exciting new Band 7 Senior Analyst role within Corporate Nursing. Working closely with the Associate Director of Nursing and senior nursing leaders, you will turn complex information into clear insight that supports assurance, improvement and effective decision making.

The initial focus will be nursing and midwifery workforce intelligence. However, this is a flexible Corporate Nursing role which will respond to changing priorities across quality, safety, workforce, performance, service improvement and transformation.

This is an opportunity to shape a new role and make a visible difference. If you enjoy asking the right questions, finding the story behind the numbers and helping leaders make better decisions, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will bring together information from systems, people, services and finance to develop a joined up understanding of performance, demand, quality, outcomes and workforce across Corporate Nursing.

You will develop reports, dashboards and analysis that help senior leaders understand what is happening, why it is happening and where action may be required. You will identify trends, variation, risks and opportunities, undertake forecasting and modelling, and evaluate the impact of changes and improvement work.

You will provide analytical support across the wider Corporate Nursing portfolio in response to organisational priorities.

You will work with colleagues across nursing, quality, rostering, workforce, finance, digital and the wider Group analytical service to translate complex information into clear recommendations and meaningful action.

Working for our organisation

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Senior Analyst will lead the development and delivery of analytical and business intelligence support for Corporate Nursing. The postholder will analyse and interpret complex information from a range of clinical, operational, workforce, quality and financial sources.

They will develop accessible reports, dashboards and analytical products, identify trends and variation, undertake forecasting and modelling, and provide specialist advice to support planning, assurance, improvement and transformation.

The postholder will work independently, manage routine and urgent analytical requests and respond flexibly as Corporate Nursing priorities change. They will present complex findings clearly to technical and non technical audiences, constructively challenge interpretation and support leaders to move from data to practical action.

The role will work collaboratively with colleagues across Corporate Nursing, clinical services, quality, workforce, finance, digital and the wider Group analytical service. It will promote consistent definitions, effective information governance and the best use of available data and analytical systems.

The postholder will support wider Corporate Nursing priorities where analytical input is required.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent learning/experience
• Evidence of continued professional development

Previous Experience

• Proficient in the analysis and interpretation of data from both non-financial sources and financial systems (e.g. problem formulation, data management, explicative analytics, predictive analytics, prescriptive analytics, evaluative analytics, communicating analytical results, project management, interpreting spreadsheets, ledgers, etc)
• Interprets and resolves highly complex statistical/ epidemiological/information problems
• Persuasion, motivation and negotiation skills to resolve gain agreement and reduce conflict
• Experience of managing complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options/highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options
• Experience of analysing, investigating and resolving complex statistical/analytical/epidemiological queries and issues/problems, where there is a range of solutions/ analyses
• Experience of effective partnership working including working with clinicians.
• Relevant skills gained in the NHS
• Relevant experience gained in NHS workforce, staffing or healthcare analytics

Knowledge/Skills

• Highly developed specialist knowledge of tools (could include SPC, Excel, Data Warehouse, SQL, R, PowerBI, SPSS, SystmOne, electronic staff records, PLICS, and approaches e.g., Modern Hospital, statistics, population health, population health management, epidemiology, information analysis and the use of information across large, complex organisations or systems)
• Understanding of the wider determinants of health and the significance of health inequalities
• Knowledge of improvement skills and techniques to support change
• Understanding of key national and local strategies, policy drivers and population health management
• Relevant knowledge of these areas pertinent to the NHS
• Knowledge of both Acute and Community settings.

Specific Requirements

• Will be required to work across sites
• Good general IT and keyboard skills

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

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