East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Business Intelligence Analyst

The closing date is 25 May 2025

Job summary

Please note: This role is NOT currently eligible for sponsorship. Please DO NOT apply if you will require sponsorship for this post within the next 2 years.

Do you want to be part of talented and expanding Business Intelligence team building innovative analytics products that help to inform and empower our decision makers? As a BI Analyst you will support the team to extract knowledge for our clinical and operational teams, hungry for analytics to optimise clinical care and performance and for our vibrant research community. You will support our organisation to meet its statutory reporting responsibilities, delivering key areas of reporting to external partners and national bodies.

You will join a group of approximately 20 Business Intelligence Analysts and engineers and you will have options to increase and hone your skills in multiple BI related areas covering up to 40 clinical specialties, including Regional specialist services across Medicine, Surgery, Women and Children's services and Diagnostics. As part of the expanding team, you will be given the opportunity to develop skills to analyse and report on large, complex data sets and deliver through appropriate visualisation tools; utilising a range of complex data sources derived from our mature Electronic Patient Record system. Given our close relations with Data Science and Development, you will also have the chance to build skills in cloud-based technologies, languages such as Python or R.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for an applicant looking to start their career journey within Business Intelligence. You will develop a thorough understanding of NHS data, how to process data and report to both internal and external audiences. You will be given access to extensive training and development to build you technical skill set including but not limited to SQL, ETL Processing (SSIS and SSAS) and data visualisation tools. You will, over time develop the skills to analyse and report on large, complex data sets and deliver through appropriate tools for data visualisation and reporting that provide you with an extensive skill set to continue your career journey. Your main duties will include:

Provide daily assistance to the Senior Analysts, extracting data and populating templates for specified established reports for service managers, corporate managers, external organisations and statutory bodies

Provide informatics support to meet all statutory and internal reporting deadlines utilising processes for daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting within the trust and to external organisations.

Utilise and further develop existing data sources to support the development of standard information for users of the service

About us

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work so you will be joining a Business Intelligence team that actively supports training and skills development to help you achieve your personal and career development objectives and promotes agile/home working opportunities for all. We are a dedicated, extremely busy, hard-working, and friendly team who will help you to flourish in your new role.

As a member of OneLSC, you will be working as part of a collaborative, friendly and caring team of incredible people who are committed to providing excellent care with compassion. We celebrate diversity, encourage everyone to contribute, and you are valued for who you are. Together, we can create your future. You will be supported to achieve your personal goals and build the career you want. You will have access to our world-class education facilities and award-winning leadership and learning programmes - so this is the perfect place for you to achieve your potential. Together, we have created a supportive, inspirational, innovative, and vibrant workplace.

Date posted

12 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

435-1LSC-LT-036-25

Job locations

Preston Business Centre

Watling Street Road

Preston

PR2 8DY

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further details are available in the detailed Job Description and person specification. The main responsibilities of the post are:

Liaise with relevant individuals to ensure that any data is collected in an accurate and timely manner

Ensure all deadlines for information provision are met by planning and organising work in response to continually changing priorities

Run reports as specified and required by the senior analysts

Work within the BI team in providing information as per agreed timescales

Establish effective working relationships with key personnel in the PbR/SLR, Business Intelligence, Performance, Finance and Divisional Teams relevant to the role.

Report effectively, in written, verbal or electronic format as required

Utilise departmental operational procedures to run reports, updating procedures as processes are refined.

Provide analysis support to respond to activity queries and requests

Quality assure relevant procedures and process documents ensuring changes are reflected into documentation

Become proficient in the interpretation of user requirements into ad hoc reports.

Utilise and further develop existing data sources to support the development of standard information for users of the service

Work independently with Trust staff, but with support and guidance from the Senior Business Intelligence team members.

Become proficient in the use of the Trusts data visualisation tools to analyse and present data to service users.