Director of Data and Analytics (Interim)
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
This is a pivotal role, and I’m seeking an outstanding individual to take it on. The ideal candidate will bring substantial expertise in data and analytics, alongside the leadership capability to drive meaningful transformation and change. Strong analytical skills, creativity, and insight will be essential.
As Director of Data and Analytics, you will lead the strategic and operational management of our Business Information and Clinical Coding teams across all Trust sites, while working collaboratively across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative and broader Integrated Care System.Your leadership will be key to enabling high-quality data-driven decision-making that underpins both strategic direction and day-to-day operational performance.
You will be accountable for upholding information standards and developing a responsive, insightful business intelligence service that supports our organisational goals. The role also encompasses responsibilities for data governance and high-quality analytics that directly inform service delivery.
Reporting to the Deputy Chief Operating Officer, you will shape and implement a transformation programme to modernise and align business intelligence with operational priorities. Your focus will be on delivering a service that is proactive, embedded in operational delivery, and essential to the Trust’s core business.
Main duties of the job- The Director of Data and Analytics will have responsibility for the strategic and operational management of the Business Information and Clinical Coding teams across all sites in the Trust, in order to support the strategic and operational performance of the Trust.
- This role will take an active role in some of the system-wide and multi-disciplinary collaborations of intelligence professionals (including data analysts, clinical coders, data scientists and qualitative researchers).
- Intelligence functions will support a breadth of strategic, clinical and operational decisions at Director level.
- The post holder will be accountable for information standards and the development of business intelligence to support strategic and operational delivery, information governance and data analysis.
- The role will report to the Deputy Chief Operating Officer and will have specific responsibility for defining and delivering a transformation programme across business intelligence. Ensuring the service is fully aligned to our operational teams and priorities, and that excellence in information service delivery supports our operational teams to transact our core business.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria- Educated to Masters Level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools including both Agile and Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
- Member of a relevant professional body.
- Accredited Clinical Coding qualification.
- Formal project/programme management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria- Recent director or senior NHS experience in data and informatics.
- Experience of leading major change initiatives with entrepreneurialism.
- Significant experience of working in a senior leadership position, reporting to Board or equivalent level.
- Experience of working and engaging with senior clinical staff.
- Experience of leading large, highly complex programmes or services within a complex organisational environment.
- Proven track record of achieving complex targets and deadlines.
- Significant experience of strategy development and implementation, business case development, and leading a change management agenda.
- Strong track record of effective internal and external partnership working, in a health and care context.
- Significant experience in governance, risk appraisal and management of risk.
- Be a strategic analyst first and foremost.
- Have analytical management and leadership experience.
- Be experienced reporting at Board level.
- Have excellent service and academic networks.
- Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial and commercial process requirements.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
- Able to inspire credibility and confidence at all levels.
- Proven people management and leaderships skills.
- Have experience of using analysis to address politically sensitive issues within complex systems and involving multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to identify, plan, and undertake research and development initiatives to inform strategic objectives.
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria- Strong strategic mind-set and experience of strategic planning.
- Understanding of the development and implementation of health policy within a continually changing highly complex environment.
- Advanced technical and specialist knowledge in data and informatics.
- Understanding of legislation and its impact on data and analytical services.
- Understanding of national data and analytical strategies.
- Strong strategic leadership and vision supported by organisational development and change management skills.
- Strong negotiating skills and evidence of creating consensus in potentially challenging conversations.
- Exceptional strategic planning and analytical skills; able to make judgements about highly complex facts or situations.
- Excellent communicator who can command the respect and confidence of both technical and non-technical staff.
- Excellent written communication skills.
- Ability to act as a leader in both formal and informal situations.
- Pro-active and achievement orientated, team orientated with an inclusive style.