[Hiring] Business Intelligence Lead @Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Role Description

The Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is excited to offer an opportunity for an ambitious individual to join our Data and Informatics team as a Business Intelligence Lead on a Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2027.

We are looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking individual to work closely with the Data Warehouse and Informatics teams within the Trust to enable the successful delivery of effective reporting.

  • Quickly acquire a broad understanding of the data for their area and within a year become the expert.
  • Own the clarity between Information and the relevant Division as to agreed reporting and ensure its timely delivery and support ongoing development.
  • Take responsibility for delivery, solving problems as they arise and escalating by exception when needed.
  • Review information for their area monthly and brief both their own team and the relevant division on anything material or noteworthy.
  • Be the main contact with their Division for the above and for any ad-hoc analysis or modelling, with front line responsibility for the information service provided to their Division.

The senior analysts and this role together with the Head of Business Intelligence are the core senior management team within Information. They will need to provide group leadership to support the wider team on an ongoing basis:

  • Advice and guidance to the rest of the team based on their skills and experience with an expectation that each senior analyst will have a particular area of high-level skills/knowledge to share (e.g. analysis, reporting systems, SQL, operational needs etc.).
  • Promoting a focus on what the data means and the story rather than just the number and deputise for Head of Business Intelligence, both internally and externally.

Qualifications

  • Experience of working with NHS data is highly desirable.
  • Significant technical proficiency in BI and DWH toolsets such as PowerBI and SQL.

Requirements

  • Current right to work in the UK, subject to verification.
  • Meeting the Skilled Worker visa criteria, where applicable.

Benefits

  • Commitment to supporting staff in achieving a healthy work-life balance through flexible work arrangements.
  • Right to request flexible working, with an unlimited number of requests allowed.
  • Disability Confident Employer; guaranteed interview scheme for applicants with disabilities.
  • Accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
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