Job summary
- Main area
- Data Analytics Team
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-CS2951-LW
- Employer
- Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sceptre Point
- Town
- Preston
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Insight and Evaluation Lead
Band 8a
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
- Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
We’re looking for an experienced Insight and Evaluation Lead to help shape how we use insight and evaluation to improve services and outcomes for patients across the Trust. You’ll act as a “researcher in residence”, partnering with clinical, operational, improvement and digital teams to set evidence-based goals and measures, build theories of change, and deliver robust evaluations that drive learning and improvement.
Main duties of the job
• Lead the development and improvement of Trust-wide approaches to insight and evaluation, ensuring they are integrated, high quality and deliver practical impact.
• Design and deliver meaningful evaluations (formative and summative), using mixed methods where appropriate, to understand outcomes, mechanisms of change and what works.
• Translate complex performance and clinical information into clear, compelling insight using data storytelling, dashboards and visualisations for senior leadership audiences.
• Work with operational and clinical teams to develop and deliver advanced analytics and AI-focused solutions, using agile ways of working (including Scrum Master responsibilities).
• Lead and line manage the Insight and Evaluation team day-to-day, including work planning, performance, development and wellbeing.
• Build and maintain partnerships with universities and external evaluation/research networks, and lead dissemination of findings to a wide range of audiences.
• Provide expert advice to executives and senior leaders on data insight and evaluation, and deputise for the Head of Data Insights when required.
• Ensure Information Governance and data protection requirements are met across all evaluation and insight activity.
Working for our organisation
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Highly developed specialist knowledge gained via a Master’s degree or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Expert knowledge of NHS data standards, definitions and guidance, or demonstrated ability to rapidly acquire knowledge.
- Expert knowledge of agile development techniques and their use through demonstrable experience.
- Highly developed and demonstrable technical expertise in Microsoft BI tools, including Fabric, Azure, SQL Server, TSQL, Power BI, Excel.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing data disciplines within the NHS.
- Experience of manipulating complex data sets to produce automated reports.
- Experience as a core member of a data solution implementation team with a proven track record for the delivery of systems to support NHS mental health data & insight requirements.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Edward Fulker
- Job title
- Head of Data Insights
- Email address
- [email protected]
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