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Senior Information Manager - North Region (Band 8a)

Directorate: Commissioning - North Region Base: Liverpool / Newcastle / Rotherham (with regional travel)

The postholder will manage the provision of analytics to stakeholders and support the delivery of the North integrated BI team responsibilities. The postholder has responsibility for the specification, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data and intelligence. Providing line management for the team and to co‑ordinating the team workload and priorities ensuring delivery of a professional, high quality and high performing analytics services that supports North Stakeholders.Main duties of the job

The Senior Information Manager will be responsible for a group of stakeholders based on a sub‑regional footprint. They will also lead on the delivery of BI services for specific programme of care groups and/or clinical networks. The post holder will work as part of the North integrated BI team, taking a lead for managing the successful delivery of the service, managing the team priorities and workloads from scoping through to successful completion.

Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.

Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms -- including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial -- enabling us to design and deliver high‑quality NHS services.

We lead the NHS in England by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation

Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, leading to full integration. The aim is to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and eliminates waste.

If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the recruitment process.

The post holder will:

• Have experience in people management and leadership, working in a matrix management model
• Support the team to move from routine churn to a more considered understanding of what the data can offer and the story it is telling
• Take a more clinical focus with the data to inform quality of care and service delivery conversations underpinned by multiple data set utilisation where appropriate
• Have a working understanding of different analytical tools and techniques such as R, Python etc
• Work with stakeholders to ensure they can utilise the NCDR (or equivalent) self‑serve platform, ensuring they are getting value added from the data and intelligence provided, adding narrative to outputs and creating additional outputs as required to ensure all needs are met
• Support the delivery of national analytical networks and associated requirements
• Be highly numerate and use a variety of analytical techniques to provide high quality, timely analysis and intelligence relating to direct commissioned service areas at a national level
• Have an understanding of commissioning for value / variation based data analysis
• Be adaptable when finding analytical solutions to problems, analysing and triangulating data and intelligence in innovative ways and presenting findings clearly to a range of audiences
• Be able to utilise a variety of data sources to build a coherent analysis relating to a given service area informed by a variety of stakeholders including clinicians, service specialists, commissioners and finance managers
• Effectively utilise variation based analysis
• Have excellent communication skills and be able to influence people with different perspectives to get the most out of stakeholder relationships
• Support teams within the direct commissioned services directorate to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively, staying calm under pressure and able to juggle competing priorities and tight deadlines
• Be a key member of the team, proactive, with a positive outlook and a flexible approach to work

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Educated to degree level in economics, statistics, operational research or related subject.
• Post‑graduate degree in Management Studies or

• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post‑graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
• Understanding of a range of data collection methods and analytical tools and techniques (such as R, Python etc), and their application to the NHS context.
• Advanced knowledge of diverse information systems used in health
• Working knowledge of principles of data management and data quality
• Must have an understanding of the background and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this
• Extensive knowledge of the NHS costing and payment regime and the relationship between NHS England and Monitor in setting tariffs
• Experience of either the NHS, other health related fields or health related
• Knowledge of data security, GDPR and confidentiality issues
• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
• Demonstrated experience of co‑ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
• Previous experience of managing and leading staff.
• Experience of stakeholder management
• Knowledge of the Freedom of Information request process
• Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
• Understanding of the public sector
• Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment

• The ability to work with others and develop strong collaborative networks
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills
• The ability to make good decisions based on complex, ambiguous or partial information
• The ability to plan and prioritise work effectively, switching resources between priorities where necessary
• Skilled in the use of SQL Server and the use of large databases and have the technical expertise to query such datasets
• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups

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