Job summary
Are you an experienced data leader ready to influence health outcomes at scale?
We are seeking a Strategic Data Intelligence Lead to drive forward our South East London Community Provider Network (CPN) data intelligence improvement workstream. This is a pivotal role working across four leading NHS organisations to build a unified and impactful data approach that can actively support improvement in community services for adults and children.
This post offers the opportunity to lead a high-profile data improvement workstream to maximise existing data collection and shape how population health data supports clinical, operational, and strategic decision-making across our region.
If you thrive in cross-organisational collaboration, understand the value of data to lead lasting change, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the CPN Data Intelligence workstream, coordinating delivery across four NHS provider trusts.
- Develop and deliver strategic improvements in data recording, reporting and analysis to support transformation.
- Act as a subject matter expert on community service data intelligence, population health, and performance management.
- Build collaborative relationships across ICBs, provider trusts, and wider system partners to drive aligned, data-led improvement.
- Improve community service visibility through meaningful KPIs, outcome measures, and accessible visualisation tools.
- Influence executive decision-making through high-quality insights and presentations.
- Support and align with other CPN workstreams focused on reducing waiting times and spreading innovation
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Lead cross-organisational data improvement efforts focused on demand and capacity modelling, outcome measurement, and productivity insights.
- Develop and promote clear, reliable, and high-impact analytics and dashboards to inform system transformation.
- Provide guidance on technical solutions and pragmatic data use to minimise clinical burden while enhancing insight.
- Present findings to CPN leadership, CEOs, and board-level stakeholders across the region.
- Manage governance, planning, risks, budgets, and stakeholder engagement to ensure successful delivery.
- Be a visible and values-driven leader, upholding the Oxleas values: Were Kind, Were Fair, We Listen, We Care.
- Line manage a small team and provide leadership within a matrix working environment.
- Help shape the future growth and influence of the CPN at ICS and national levels.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Lead cross-organisational data improvement efforts focused on demand and capacity modelling, outcome measurement, and productivity insights.
- Develop and promote clear, reliable, and high-impact analytics and dashboards to inform system transformation.
- Provide guidance on technical solutions and pragmatic data use to minimise clinical burden while enhancing insight.
- Present findings to CPN leadership, CEOs, and board-level stakeholders across the region.
- Manage governance, planning, risks, budgets, and stakeholder engagement to ensure successful delivery.
- Be a visible and values-driven leader, upholding the Oxleas values: Were Kind, Were Fair, We Listen, We Care.
- Line manage a small team and provide leadership within a matrix working environment.
- Help shape the future growth and influence of the CPN at ICS and national levels.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to post graduate diploma level subject or equivalent level experience or significant experience of working at a similar level
- Knowledge of programme and project management approaches and methods
Desirable
- Evidence of continued professional development
Experience
Essential
- Ability to harmonise disparate and possibly conflicting data sources and information requirements by manipulating and effectively analysing complex data
- Significant knowledge of analysing NHS data sources and information flows and their scope and limitations s well as other relevant business intelligence
- Knowledge of data visualisation tools and techniques demonstrating ability to convey analysis form complex data sources in accessible and easy to understand format
- Experience of writing briefing papers and analytical reports for senior management level
- Experience of working in a complex multidisciplinary environment
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Extremely strong data manipulation, statistical interpretative and analytical skills and ability to make sense and draw meaninfgul insights from complex NHS and wider datasets
- Ability to prioritise workload in response to changing requirements and timeframes
- Excellent written and verbal skills, ability to develop impactful reports to a broad range of stakeholders
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to post graduate diploma level subject or equivalent level experience or significant experience of working at a similar level
- Knowledge of programme and project management approaches and methods
Desirable
- Evidence of continued professional development
Experience
Essential
- Ability to harmonise disparate and possibly conflicting data sources and information requirements by manipulating and effectively analysing complex data
- Significant knowledge of analysing NHS data sources and information flows and their scope and limitations s well as other relevant business intelligence
- Knowledge of data visualisation tools and techniques demonstrating ability to convey analysis form complex data sources in accessible and easy to understand format
- Experience of writing briefing papers and analytical reports for senior management level
- Experience of working in a complex multidisciplinary environment
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Extremely strong data manipulation, statistical interpretative and analytical skills and ability to make sense and draw meaninfgul insights from complex NHS and wider datasets
- Ability to prioritise workload in response to changing requirements and timeframes
- Excellent written and verbal skills, ability to develop impactful reports to a broad range of stakeholders
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
