Job summary
To manage and lead the team of BI Development Partners and BI Development Managers which support the clinical and corporate divisions, and the wider Business Intelligence team. Working in collaboration with senior stakeholders across the organisation to set the strategic and operational plans to deliver a holistic, integrated, and comprehensive Business Intelligence platform.
To develop and oversee the development of a sophisticated reporting infrastructure using Power BI, SSAS, SSIS and other reporting tools to ensure the wider BI team and organisation have tools, reporting and information which reduce manual overhead, duplication and ensure value-added analysis and service is possible.
Main duties of the job
To manage and lead the team of BI Development Partners and BI Development Managers which support the clinical and corporate divisions, and the wider Business Intelligence team. Working in collaboration with senior stakeholders across the organisation to set the strategic and operational plans to deliver a holistic, integrated, and comprehensive Business Intelligence platform.
To develop and oversee the development of a sophisticated reporting infrastructure using Power BI, SSAS, SSIS and other reporting tools to ensure the wider BI team and organisation have tools, reporting and information which reduce manual overhead, duplication and ensure value-added analysis and service is possible.
To set the strategic and operational BI support function and cycle for the clinical divisions ensuring all Business Intelligence Development Partners provide a value-added, forward-looking and wide-ranging BI service.
To support the Deputy, and Director of Business Intelligence in shaping and delivering the Business Intelligence strategic vision to streamline activities and focus on value added goals, implementing a real time corporate approach to intelligence, a single version of the truth, promoting a self-service and ease of access approach to data, exploring and utilising world class technologies
About us
Join us atUHSussex, every day is different, you can be the change, better neverstops
AtUHSussexwe're proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of theUK's largest acute Trusts, we're a leading example of the excellence, the ambition and the values that have embodied the NHS for over 70 years.
Improving lives:We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, with hardworking, talented and dedicated individuals, who work together towards a common goal, to always put ourPatient First.Our mission is summed up by our 'where better never stops' motto and no matter the role atUHSussex, you will play a part in driving us forwards and in improving the lives of patients across Sussex.We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We're here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in ourwellbeing programmefor staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need itbecausewe know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.
Build a career with us:As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication
- To work with all members of the senior teams both clinically and corporately to ensure Business Intelligence, and the Business Intelligence Development Partners provide a robust, responsive, proactive, and comprehensive service.
- To lead the Business Intelligence Development Partners to ensure the Divisional scorecards, planning and monitoring, modelling and wider busines intelligence provides and rich, sophisticated, and flexible platform by which the clinical divisions can manage their strategic and operational priorities, and by which corporate teams and senior managers can challenge and performance manage clinical teams. to a wide range of staffing as required where appropriate.
- To lead the Business Intelligence Development Partners such that the service and the team provides such that they are an integral part of the divisional management team, provide independent and objective insight and challenge into issues, and can flag and signpost the clinical divisional senior teams to current or impending issues across areas of business intelligence and operational challenges.
- To work closely with the Head of Corporate Information, Head of Operational Information and Head of Planning and Compliance to ensure the needs and priorities of the clinical divisions from a corporate perspective and conveyed and that BI is robust, clearly define and developed.
- To work closely with colleagues to ensure the BI development function is adequately briefed, supported, and guided by the Business Intelligence Development Partners to develop sophisticated reporting solutions such that the Business Intelligence Development Partners can provide value-added support and guidance to the divisions.
- To work closely with the Head of Planning and Compliance to ensure the annual planning process, in-year modelling, demand, and capacity analysis and any other predicative or simulative analysis meets the needs of the clinical divisions.
- Develop constructive working relationships with Divisional management and clinical teams to ensure that a performance focused culture where safety, quality and excellent patient care are consistently delivered though the provision of high-level analytical interpretation and modelling services.
- To clearly articulate and translate the methodology and output of complex analyses to staff at all levels and in various roles within the organisation.
- Provide an expert BI service to the clinical divisions and management teams to support a performance focused culture in line with the Trusts excellent care every time mission and Patient First approach, where safety, quality and excellent patient care are consistently delivered, supported by the provision of high-level analytical interpretation and modelling services.
Service Delivery and Improvement
- Use in-depth specialist knowledge of statistics and information analysis of both Trust, Divisional data, and comparative benchmark data from across the NHS to produce meaningful intelligence to support evidence-based decision making.
- To lead on, and be responsible for, through the Business Intelligence Development Partners, the timely and accurate availability of Divisional Board Reports including the SDR (Strategic Deployment Review), the Divisional Quality Scorecards, as part of the Trusts True North Objectives, monitoring progress against targets and identifying where improvements in the effective and efficient delivery of services can take place.
- Create and maintain a clear programme and timetable for the completion of all reporting whether dashboards, performance reporting or planning required by the Division as part of the Trust business cycle.
- Develop and deliver performance monitoring against national and local performance standards and develop reporting to ensure these standards are achieved and maintained.
- Maintain and develop dynamic activity, demand and capacity models that allow short- and long-term identification of service needs, exploring multiple scenarios based on performance and service improvement, with clear activity and associated capacity/workforce outputs. Work in collaboration with Divisional management teams to generate delivery strategies based on outcomes, and corporate Business Intelligence Development Partners to ensure triangulation with finance and workforce implications.
- Make, and support others in making highly complex business judgements involving facts or situations that require the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options (for example as part of development of business cases).
- To support the Project Management Office (PMO) service improvement and efficiency schemes by performance tracking for specific programmes.
- Exercise sound judgment in the analysis and stratification of complex issues, providing realistic options for improvement, linking the analysis to the actual operational issue, e.g., analysing the speciality performance of 18 weeks to find out where improvements need to be made.
- Budget holder within the Business Intelligence Development Team.
- To provide cover for other the Heads of team, or Deputy Director of Business Intelligence as required.
- Provide specialist training for staff from own or other disciplines on own subject area, when required.
People Management and Development
- To manage and develop a team of Business Intelligence Development Partners and Business Intelligence Development Managers to be able to work with other staff to deliver the management strategic and operational information needs of the Trust across performance, finance, quality, corporate information, and patient safety. This will include coaching, mentoring, resource planning, standard setting, team performance management and individual development.
- Ensure that annual appraisals are undertaken and personal development plans agreed; challenging and managing performance where necessary.
Learning and Development
- Attend mandatory training updates as required.
- Undertake training as necessary in line with the development of the post and as agreed with the line manager as part of the personal development process.
- Achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development within agreed timescales.
- Identify own learning needs and jointly plan training requirements with your line manager.
- Participate in the Trusts appraisal process to discuss how your role will help deliver the best possible care to our patients and help to deliver any changes in service.
This job description is an outline of the role and responsibilities. From time to time due to the needs of the service, we may ask you to flexibly undertake other duties that are consistent with your role and banding, including project work, internal job rotation and absence cover. The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an on-going basis in accordance with the changing needs of the department and the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication
- To work with all members of the senior teams both clinically and corporately to ensure Business Intelligence, and the Business Intelligence Development Partners provide a robust, responsive, proactive, and comprehensive service.
- To lead the Business Intelligence Development Partners to ensure the Divisional scorecards, planning and monitoring, modelling and wider busines intelligence provides and rich, sophisticated, and flexible platform by which the clinical divisions can manage their strategic and operational priorities, and by which corporate teams and senior managers can challenge and performance manage clinical teams. to a wide range of staffing as required where appropriate.
- To lead the Business Intelligence Development Partners such that the service and the team provides such that they are an integral part of the divisional management team, provide independent and objective insight and challenge into issues, and can flag and signpost the clinical divisional senior teams to current or impending issues across areas of business intelligence and operational challenges.
- To work closely with the Head of Corporate Information, Head of Operational Information and Head of Planning and Compliance to ensure the needs and priorities of the clinical divisions from a corporate perspective and conveyed and that BI is robust, clearly define and developed.
- To work closely with colleagues to ensure the BI development function is adequately briefed, supported, and guided by the Business Intelligence Development Partners to develop sophisticated reporting solutions such that the Business Intelligence Development Partners can provide value-added support and guidance to the divisions.
- To work closely with the Head of Planning and Compliance to ensure the annual planning process, in-year modelling, demand, and capacity analysis and any other predicative or simulative analysis meets the needs of the clinical divisions.
- Develop constructive working relationships with Divisional management and clinical teams to ensure that a performance focused culture where safety, quality and excellent patient care are consistently delivered though the provision of high-level analytical interpretation and modelling services.
- To clearly articulate and translate the methodology and output of complex analyses to staff at all levels and in various roles within the organisation.
- Provide an expert BI service to the clinical divisions and management teams to support a performance focused culture in line with the Trusts excellent care every time mission and Patient First approach, where safety, quality and excellent patient care are consistently delivered, supported by the provision of high-level analytical interpretation and modelling services.
Service Delivery and Improvement
- Use in-depth specialist knowledge of statistics and information analysis of both Trust, Divisional data, and comparative benchmark data from across the NHS to produce meaningful intelligence to support evidence-based decision making.
- To lead on, and be responsible for, through the Business Intelligence Development Partners, the timely and accurate availability of Divisional Board Reports including the SDR (Strategic Deployment Review), the Divisional Quality Scorecards, as part of the Trusts True North Objectives, monitoring progress against targets and identifying where improvements in the effective and efficient delivery of services can take place.
- Create and maintain a clear programme and timetable for the completion of all reporting whether dashboards, performance reporting or planning required by the Division as part of the Trust business cycle.
- Develop and deliver performance monitoring against national and local performance standards and develop reporting to ensure these standards are achieved and maintained.
- Maintain and develop dynamic activity, demand and capacity models that allow short- and long-term identification of service needs, exploring multiple scenarios based on performance and service improvement, with clear activity and associated capacity/workforce outputs. Work in collaboration with Divisional management teams to generate delivery strategies based on outcomes, and corporate Business Intelligence Development Partners to ensure triangulation with finance and workforce implications.
- Make, and support others in making highly complex business judgements involving facts or situations that require the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options (for example as part of development of business cases).
- To support the Project Management Office (PMO) service improvement and efficiency schemes by performance tracking for specific programmes.
- Exercise sound judgment in the analysis and stratification of complex issues, providing realistic options for improvement, linking the analysis to the actual operational issue, e.g., analysing the speciality performance of 18 weeks to find out where improvements need to be made.
- Budget holder within the Business Intelligence Development Team.
- To provide cover for other the Heads of team, or Deputy Director of Business Intelligence as required.
- Provide specialist training for staff from own or other disciplines on own subject area, when required.
People Management and Development
- To manage and develop a team of Business Intelligence Development Partners and Business Intelligence Development Managers to be able to work with other staff to deliver the management strategic and operational information needs of the Trust across performance, finance, quality, corporate information, and patient safety. This will include coaching, mentoring, resource planning, standard setting, team performance management and individual development.
- Ensure that annual appraisals are undertaken and personal development plans agreed; challenging and managing performance where necessary.
Learning and Development
- Attend mandatory training updates as required.
- Undertake training as necessary in line with the development of the post and as agreed with the line manager as part of the personal development process.
- Achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development within agreed timescales.
- Identify own learning needs and jointly plan training requirements with your line manager.
- Participate in the Trusts appraisal process to discuss how your role will help deliver the best possible care to our patients and help to deliver any changes in service.
This job description is an outline of the role and responsibilities. From time to time due to the needs of the service, we may ask you to flexibly undertake other duties that are consistent with your role and banding, including project work, internal job rotation and absence cover. The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an on-going basis in accordance with the changing needs of the department and the organisation.
Person Specification
Experience Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree level education or equivalent in experience
- NHS organisation experience
- Substantival experience of delivering complex strategic and operational business intelligence solutions
- Strong networker and relationship builder
Desirable
- 3-5 years experience managing projects/programmes of varying complexity
Skills
Essential
- Political Astuteness, understanding what can and can't be delivered at a senior level
- Experience using Sophisticated Data Visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau
- Experience of designing, developing and maintaining warehouses
- Translation of business needs and issues into logical analytical framework
- Experience in other core technologies which support sophisticated BI environments
- Communication Skills
Desirable
- Experience of Power Apps
- Experience in use of MS Sharepoint
People Management Skills
Essential
- Excellent collaborative working skills and able to build strong relationships with clinical leaders and professional staff groups and a proven ability to influence and change those groups
- A management style that empowers others to deliver
Desirable
Person Specification
Experience Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree level education or equivalent in experience
- NHS organisation experience
- Substantival experience of delivering complex strategic and operational business intelligence solutions
- Strong networker and relationship builder
Desirable
- 3-5 years experience managing projects/programmes of varying complexity
Skills
Essential
- Political Astuteness, understanding what can and can't be delivered at a senior level
- Experience using Sophisticated Data Visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau
- Experience of designing, developing and maintaining warehouses
- Translation of business needs and issues into logical analytical framework
- Experience in other core technologies which support sophisticated BI environments
- Communication Skills
Desirable
- Experience of Power Apps
- Experience in use of MS Sharepoint
People Management Skills
Essential
- Excellent collaborative working skills and able to build strong relationships with clinical leaders and professional staff groups and a proven ability to influence and change those groups
- A management style that empowers others to deliver
Desirable
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).
