Job vacancy: Divisional Information Manager, Band 7- Business Intelligence, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cheltenham

Job summary

Main area: Business Intelligence
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 318-24-COR-T2032

Employer: Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Cheltenham General
Town: Cheltenham
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/01/2025 23:59

Divisional Information Manager, Band 7- Business Intelligence

Band 7

Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.

As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.

As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.

By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Divisional Managers are responsible for the development, preparation and maintenance of high quality and timely information and analytical reports to support the Divisions in performance management, clinical and operational processes. This will involve ensuring a high level of analysis, interpretation, synthesis and presentation of information reports to ensure stakeholders are advised of any potential problem areas. The information to be presented in a clear and concise manner and where appropriate to recommend solutions. This involves working closely with clinicians and senior managers within the hospital to understand their requirements, developing reporting tools and providing intelligence to enable services to make better informed decisions. The post holder will need to be engaging, forward thinking, and work with a positive attitude in order to build great working relationships with our customers to improve patient care.

To lead, together with the other BI Managers, the team’s staff to ensure they are well motivated work effectively and achieve their personal and team objectives. This includes line management HR functions, recruitment functions and ensuring staff are developed and appraised each year.

Understand and interpret complex concepts and respond appropriately to tight deadlines. This entails the analysis, investigation and resolution of complex information issues.

Divisional Information Managers should be organised, show excellent leadership skills, enthusiastic, inquisitive, have good technical and statistical skills, and passionate to make a real difference to how our hospitals are run.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Bachelor Degree or equivalent educational level
GCSE Maths & English

Experience

Essential criteria

Expert level of skill in information analysis , including the ability to prepare high quality written reports turning data to information.
Substantial experience working in NHS or Information Management.
Good understanding of the importance of data quality. Attention to detail
Leadership and communication
Negotiating and influencing key stakeholders

Knowledge/ Skills

Essential criteria

Analytical mindset, explain trends and themes in data
Intermediate knowledge and skilled in the use of MS Excel, SQL, SSRS, Tableau
Basic knowledge and understanding of patient pathways, NHS Data Dictionary including datasets, data standards and data quality
Excellent problem solving skills
Committed to staff development/ training of junior analysts

The health and wellbeing of our staff and patients remains the priority of the Trust. Vaccination remains the best chance we have of conquering COVID and the Trust encourages everyone to take up this offer.

Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. The Recruitment Team are unable to accept any applications after the position has closed on NHS Jobs.

Committed to safeguarding our community

If applicable for the post, all successful candidates will be required to pay for their own Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The cost will be £29 (standard checks) or £46 (enhanced checks), and will be recovered through two instalments from the candidate's salary. Please contact [email protected] for further information.

The Trust is a safeguarding employer committed to the safeguarding and promotion of welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Trust is committed to safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults, and any appointment will be subject to satisfactory clearance. As part of the organisation's commitment to Safer Recruitment, candidates may request copies of relevant policies and procedures by contacting the Recruitment Team at [email protected]

Committed to supporting service personnel

As part of our commitment to support Service Personnel, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in collaboration with the Career Transition Partnership, offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for all qualifying Service and Ex-Service Personnel. To qualify for a guaranteed interview, candidates must meet the essential criteria for the post and be either a current member of the Armed Forces, or be within the two year period of resettlement. If this applies to you please email the job reference number and your AR number to the Recruitment Team at [email protected]