Job summary
- Main area
- Business Intelligence
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Hybrid working in line with Trust policy which can be discussed at interview
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-SS0739
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Farm Villa (TBC)
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Business Intelligence Partner
Band 7
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.
Our friendly Business Intelligence Team is seeking a highly motivated and organized Business Intelligence Partner to join their busy Team.
This post will work to support the portfolio of the Children and Young Persons & All Age Eating Disorder Directorate
Works to support the trust in the development and co-ordination of performance and business management processes to ensure comprehensive service performance monitoring and development.
A key member supporting their assigned operations directorate Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to produce effective performance reports to meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders
Main duties of the job
- Promote awareness of national and local targets.
- Develop and deliver reporting mechanisms to support the trust objectives.
- To analyse performance data and advise accordingly.
- To establish relevant communication at all levels of service management to enable collection of robust data, and to ensure sufficient understanding to support compliance with statutory requirements.
- Support the design, production and delivery of business reports to the Trust.
- Undertake and support audits as requested.
- Support the process of service development initiatives and Cost Improvement Programmes.
Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and the main responsibilities of the role.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- Degree qualification in Business or equivalent.
- Post Grad Diploma in Business Management or equivalent
- 3 year Post Grad work experience
- ECDL or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Additional qualification in Management
- Project and/or programme management qualification
- Additional advanced IT related qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of implementing performance management mechanisms and business cases
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a commissioning or contracting environment
- Experience of working within Health Service or Local Authority Management Systems
- Experience of SPSS or similar statistical modelling software
- Experience working with SQL databases
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Use of technology in qualitative and quantitative analyses of performance data.
- Ability to manage competing demands and priorities
- Risk management skills
- Presentation skills
- Interpersonal and communication skills, particularly in relation to communicating sensitive or contentious information
- Advanced problem-solving, logical and lateral thinking skills
- Strong influencing skills
- Tenacious and motivated individual
- Ability to work on own initiative with minimum guidance.
- Ability to work flexibly as agreed with Line Manager
- Ability to communicate and simplify complex information in a clear and understandable way to all levels within the organisation
- Understanding of equalities issues
- Able to travel to services within assigned Directorate for meetings in-person
Desirable criteria
- Broad understanding of the NHS and Mental Health Services
- General understanding of health economics and NHS data flows
- Familiarity with business partnerships
- Knowledge of data visualisation techniques
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Holly Partridge
- Job title
- Senior Business Intelligence Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07804799055
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