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Job summary

Main area
Data & Analytics
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
251-CORP7548-HBI
Employer
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
BNHH
Town
Basingstoke
Salary
£76,965 - £88,682 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
24/11/2025 08:00

Employer heading

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Head of Business Intelligence

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

 

Job overview

A member of the HHFT Digital senior leadership team, the Head of Business Intelligence will lead data and intelligence services at a corporate level across HHFT and support the development and adoption of outstanding data services for patients and families. The role will also oversee the Clinical Coding team, and has responsibility for ensuring that data collection and reporting is integrated.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

  • oversee the strategic and operational delivery of Business Intelligence within the Trust, ensuring the best people doing the best work, with delivery to a high standard.
  • work with clinicians and staff to optimise of our data services across the organisation, facilitating the realisation of benefits and the integration of digital care with the Trust’s quality and safety priorities.
  • oversee the Clinical Coding function within HHFT
  • development and deliver the Trust’s data and analytics strategy through ensuring families and our patients are at the centre of all we do, and staff have the skills and resources required to deliver services to an outstanding standard for patient, contractual, finance and workforce reporting
  • ensure close working with research, development, commercial and innovation services, elevating the digital reputation of both the Trust and wider local system through the adoption of game changing digital research and innovation in data and analytics
  • ensure we are supporting our workforce with the capabilities required to use data as well as drive innovation in the use of data and analytic services with those who we provide care and treatment to, creating a healthier future for our population.
  • maintain excellent relationships and partnerships and senior leaders in the Trust

This role is only open to applicants that currently work within an NHS Trust within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System (HIOW ICS).

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search HHFT Climate Action or [email protected].

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Deliver a high-quality data and analytics service within HHFT.
  • Alongside the CIO, to develop the data and analytics strategy roadmap across the Trust.
  • Be a transformational leader – one who can drive a step change in our approach to digital healthcare through the development of long-term strategic plans for the organisation.
  • Work with key stakeholders to embed a culture of data quality improvement and ‘digital first’ culture across the Trust
  • Ensure insight and intelligence is in place to support operational service delivery
  • Support the transformation of key services including outpatient transformation, operating services, and patient flow, enabling the maximisation of data analytics across the organisation
  • Drive the adoption and integration of data as a core aspect of our service delivery. This includes working with operational and clinical teams to ensure our workforce is digitally competent and systems are designed to support clinical and cost-effective delivery of health and care services
  • Ensure our data systems function effectively within the available resources
  • Manage strategic relationships with suppliers and partners
  • Provide effective leadership and support to the teams responsible for delivery within the remit of the data and analytics portfolio
  • Work in partnership with the chief operating officer and deputy chief operating officer to facilitate the achievement of key operational benefits and outcomes.
  • Lead on elevating the Trust as a leader in the field of data and analytics and position us to benefit from national resources available to further our work
  • Maintain and develop local, and national relationships
  • Working through the Performance team and divisional reporting structure deliver of performance indicators.
  • Support the provision of reports to the Trust Board, Quality Sub-Committee and Senior Management Team on a routine and an exceptional basis, and continually refining and developing these reports and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) within them, to meet the developing needs of the Board and wider organisation.
  • Supporting and managing the formal reporting of performance to the NHS Improvement, NHS England, and other external bodies through nationally defined systems, ensuring all data is timely and appropriately quality assured
  • Where necessary and appropriate undertake all aspects of line management for the departments managed, including disciplinary, grievance, performance, and absence management, including chairing panels for hearings and appeals
  • Responsible for budget for all service areas, including budget setting.
  • Undertake audits / research to determine effectiveness, performance and improvements.
  • Lead on all aspects of data quality and data validation for the Trust.
  • Be the Registration Authority for HHFT
  • Deputising for CIO as required in both internal and external matters.
  • be responsible for delivering effective data services within HHFT, maximising the benefits of digital investments

The post holder will be expected to be flexible to respond to change and organisational need. 

Person specification

Training

Essential criteria
  • Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent experience (relevant to role)
  • Evidence of on-going personal and professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Qualification in project management

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Ability to make a senior corporate contribution to the organisation’s strategies and decision-making operating comfortably at the most senior levels of the organisation
  • Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical) and use this to inform strategy/actions/mitigations etc.
  • Strategic thinker with a high degree of political acumen

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Impeccable interpersonal, communication and facilitation skills with the ability to communicate highly complex and highly contentious information to all disciplines and seniorities with influencing, negotiating, coaching and development skills
  • Highly developed problem solving, administrative budgetary, analytical, and political skills
  • Highly developed presentational, influencing and negotiation skills
Desirable criteria
  • Highly specialist knowledge of a range of intervention strategies and improvement topics

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldArmed Forces Covenant

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Name
Jason Teoh
Job title
Chief Information Officer
Email address
[email protected]
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