Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and empower others. Effective self-management and motivation.
• Excellent communication skills across a broad range of stakeholders. High standard of verbal, interpersonal, written, and presentation skills. Ability to liaise and negotiate
• Ability to present complex information analyses to senior managers.
• Excellent computer literacy. Understanding of relational databases. Proven mathematical reasoning skills.
• Experience holding difficult conversations and evidence of dealing with and resolving conflicting opinions and priorities.
• Ability to analyse data to determine trends, including SPC methodologies
• Understanding of the NHS and knowledge of NHS structures/health economies. Knowledge of NHS information systems, data flows, and sources.
• Experience in using and developing Power BI dashboards and datasets

Desirable

• Experience of using NCS Bedrock
• Experience of using national reporting platforms such as FDP.

Education & Qualification

Essential

• Educated to Master’s level or demonstrable equivalent experience.
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development, including leadership/management and professional skills relevant to the post (e.g., technical courses, leadership/management courses, staff development, business cases)
• Evidence of project/programme management experience

Desirable

• Participation/qualification from NHS leadership courses (e.g., NHS Leadership Academy, Digital Health Leadership Programme
• Relevant professional membership (e.g., BCS, PMI)
• Qualification in information management/business intelligence
• PRINCE2 or equivalent project/programme management qualification from a recognised professional body (e.g. APM, PMI)

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Substantial experience in an NHS or public sector setting. Experience in close working with clinical and operational services. Detailed knowledge of processing NHS Information, relevant national guidance, and NHS data definitions.
• Substantial experience in staff and team management
• Significant experience in managing a BI service.
• Experience in interpreting, analysing, and presenting complex data. A sound grasp of analytical techniques and experience in using them.
• Advanced experience in a wide range of report writing and analysis tools
• MS SQL Server or equivalent experience, Budget and resource management. Risk management. Project/programme management experience.
• Development and implementation of policies, SOPs, guidelines, and projects from initiation to completion

Desirable

• Good knowledge of business change techniques.
• Experience in developing and implementing roadmaps and strategies.
• Use of reporting tools linked to SQL databases incorporating OLAP “cubes.”
• Use of MS Reporting Services
• Use of Business Objects

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Excellent team worker. Systematic in approach. Confident, highly motivated, and able to use own initiative.
• Willingness and ability to adopt new/ different software reporting tools.
• Able to manage a varied workload and to prioritise effectively. Ability to work to deadlines. Ability to resolve problems effectively.
• Cope with new and constantly changing demands
• Willingness and ability to travel locally to support our BI teams working across WSFT sites, as well as within the region and nationally.

Desirable

• Flexible approach to working hours/duties

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Closing Date: 07 April 2026

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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