Job Summary
Do you want to work for one of the leading organisations in NHS Data Analytics and winner of numerous awards both national and international?
Do you want to work in a Successful, Friendly and Forward Thinking team that’s highly regarded?
Do you want to be part of a team creating innovative, cutting edge BI applications, and analytics?
If so we are looking two enthusiastic and driven individuals to join our data analytics team and contribute towards our mission of delivering world-class health care analytics.
The successful candidates will:
- Support in the creation and lead on the interpretation of analytics.
- Have good analytical, technical and communication skills in order to aid the production of accurate & robust statistics & intelligence.
- Understand their stakeholder’s strategic direction, as well as current issues, in order to know how to prioritise & manage their workload to ensure the most effective outputs are delivered at the right time.
The successful candidate(s) will also have to possess excellent numeracy, logical and communication skills, be educated to Degree level or have equivalent experience & knowledge in the Analytics/Business Intelligence sphere.
This is a development role where the successful candidate(s) will commence on the job training as a band 6 before progressing to band 7 on successful completion of the programme.
Main duties of the job
- To work alongside the Analytics & Data Science team in the provision of an Analytics and Business Intelligence service to the Trust, its Divisions, Corporate Functions and Commissioners.
- The post holder will support in the creation or interpretation of analytics.
- The role will also support the design and rollout of interactive dashboards and will aid the DAA Development team during their production.
- The post holder will require good analytical, technical and communication skills in order to aid the production of accurate & robust statistics & intelligence.
- The post holder will understand their stakeholder’s strategic direction, as well as current issues, in order to know how to prioritise & manage their workload to ensure the most effective outputs are delivered at the right time.
- The post holder should have a good awareness of the Trusts external environment to identify & respond to variations from the local or national trends.
- This is a hybrid working role where the successful candidate(s) will be required to commute into the Wigan office at a minimum of one day per week and will be flexible to the needs of the department and trust.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree / HND level. Alternatively work knowledge & experience of equivalent level.
- Mathematics qualification – minimum GSCE pass
- Evidence of professional and /or personal development
Desirable
- Educated to Degree / HND level in mathematics, statistics, or similar subject
- UK Chip level 1 or above
Experience
Essential
- Experience analysing data
- Experience of working within a Business Intelligence Department
- Experience of developing efficient information outputs
- Data interpretation
- Capturing end user requirements.
- Experience of validating large or complex intelligence.
- Experience of identifying, managing, or communicating data quality issues.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a busy NHS Business Intelligence team. Alternatively, experience of working with data in a public sector healthcare setting.
- Use of statistics / forecasting
- Experience of web-based Business Intelligence reporting software such as Qlik
- Experience of supporting clinicians and management in the provision and interpretation of information
Skills
Essential
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills, with the ability to turn raw data into presentable reports and charts.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Responsive to customer demands.
- Ability to translate non-technical requirements into technical solutions
- Ability to concentrate for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions.
- Ability to prioritise workload to tight deadlines
- Microsoft Excel at an Intermediate Level
- Excellent Microsoft Office awareness & skill
Desirable
- Advanced Mathematics
- Statistics
- Forecasting
- Microsoft Excel at an advanced Level
- Ability to use SQL to manipulate and extract data
- Qlik Development
Knowledge
Essential
- Awareness of hospital / clinical, acute and community systems.
- Understanding of the operational role of a hospital
- A sound understanding of local and national, current and long-term; NHS issues and associated performance related targets.
- An understanding of the NHS national datasets and statutory returns currently in use, and central reporting requirements of an NHS trust.
- Knowledge of Information Governance and application in current environment.
Desirable
- Knowledge of NHS Benchmarking solutions
- Knowledge of statistical methods and when they should be applied.
- Knowledge and awareness of current and emerging BI & analytical technologies
- Knowledge of NHS Acute and Community Systems:
- NHS Commissioning
Additional
Essential
- Excellent inter-personal skills.
- Motivation and a willingness to learn.
- Challenging and inquiring mindset combined with an aptitude for working within a changing environment.
- Able to work as part of a Team, also on own initiative.
- Excellent time management Skills
- Must remain calm under pressure.
- Ability to apply common sense and logical thinking to problem solving.
- Attend relevant local and regional events.
- Willing to adopt a flexible approach to working.
- Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e., with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation
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.
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: 14 December 2025
