Informatics Business Partner inCroydon inCroydon PUBLISHED 29 OCT 2024

Band 8a: £59,490 to £66,239 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS  PERMANENT 
Day-to-day you will be responsible for working within the team and with relevant stakeholders to design, create and improve new and existing reports and dashboards across the trust.

To be part of a team providing complete, accurate and timely Informatics to support performance, research and education. The Informatics Business Partner will lead a team of analysts to provide a comprehensive analytics service to one of the Trust's clinical directorates or the corporate directorate.

This will include business planning, demand and capacity modelling, income support, data quality and mandatory reporting. The postholder will work collaboratively with senior stakeholders/customers to ensure the Clinical/Corporate Directorate's analytical needs are met. The Informatics Business Partner reports to the Requirements & Assurance Manager and may deputise in his/her absence.

The postholder will be expected to work with a high degree of professional confidence and autonomy.

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:

We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. For this role, we offer career pathways to
Senior Management roles
. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in
Microsoft Azure accreditations, including machine learning and predictive analytics, British Computer Society Training.

Day-to-day you will be responsible for working within the team and with relevant stakeholders to design, create and improve new and existing reports and dashboards across the trust. Every report and dashboard will require documentation to support specification and design. You will be expected to engage with stakeholders at all levels to determine requirements and gain approval and sign off same.

You will also be expected to facilitate user acceptance testing and sign off and act as a conduit for communication and feedback between the BI delivery team and the end user.

About us

  1. Assist senior managers and key stakeholders in defining and prioritising requests for reports and dashboards
  2. Provide analytical expertise to a Clinical Delivery Service (CDS) including reporting, analysis, insight for development and delivery of CDS plans, triangulation of activity with workforce, finance, performance, and quality information.
  3. Support the delivery of the data strategy and data quality strategy of the services responsible for the Trust
  4. Ensure business requirements / user stories are captured and understood and are aligned with the trust strategy
  5. Utilise a variety of techniques to understand, document and confirm business requirements.
  6. Responsible for the technical definition of all information requests ensuring alignment to national strategies, regulatory requirements and local Trust requirements.
  7. Translate complex aims and needs into clear and manageable plans and determine resource requirements to support product development and maintenance
  8. Ensure that requirements and definitions for reports and dashboards are understood by the Informatics delivery team
  9. Monitor progress of delivery of reports and dashboards and provide regular updates and communication to the requestor.
  10. Ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of business information throughout the product development processes
  11. Continuously improve approaches to IT requirements gathering, analysis and business modelling, including educating, coaching and developing the skills of colleagues to improve quality of service
  12. Ensure all reports and dashboards are built to an appropriate level of quality and meet assurance criteria
  13. Facilitate, monitor and feedback user acceptance testing of reports and dashboards
  14. Ensure and provide evidence that all outputs and products produced are fully assured and sustainable.
  15. Attend business meetings and provide a high standard of communication to various stakeholder, including Service Directors.
  16. Maintain detailed knowledge of relevant NHS guidance, information strategy, compliance framework and policies.
  17. Assist in identifying any improvements to systems and processes within the SLP.
  18. Effectively communication and build strong relationships to ensure timely delivery.
  19. Demonstrate and evidence quality assurance processes
  20. Any ad hoc duties related to the above, commensurate with the banding of the post and current capacity.

To be part of a team providing complete, accurate and timely Informatics to support performance, research and education. The Informatics Business Partner will lead a team of analysts to provide a comprehensive analytics service to one of the Trust's clinical directorates or the corporate directorate.

This will include business planning, demand and capacity modelling, income support, data quality and mandatory reporting. The postholder will work collaboratively with senior stakeholders/customers to ensure the Clinical/Corporate Directorate's analytical needs are met. The Informatics Business Partner reports to the Requirements & Assurance Manager and may deputise in his/her absence.

The postholder will be expected to work with a high degree of professional confidence and autonomy.

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:

We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. For this role, we offer career pathways to
Senior Management roles
. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in
Microsoft Azure accreditations, including machine learning and predictive analytics, British Computer Society Training.

Day-to-day you will be responsible for working within the team and with relevant stakeholders to design, create and improve new and existing reports and dashboards across the trust. Every report and dashboard will require documentation to support specification and design. You will be expected to engage with stakeholders at all levels to determine requirements and gain approval and sign off same.

You will also be expected to facilitate user acceptance testing and sign off and act as a conduit for communication and feedback between the BI delivery team and the end user.

About us

  1. Assist senior managers and key stakeholders in defining and prioritising requests for reports and dashboards
  2. Provide analytical expertise to a Clinical Delivery Service (CDS) including reporting, analysis, insight for development and delivery of CDS plans, triangulation of activity with workforce, finance, performance, and quality information.
  3. Support the delivery of the data strategy and data quality strategy of the services responsible for the Trust
  4. Ensure business requirements / user stories are captured and understood and are aligned with the trust strategy
  5. Utilise a variety of techniques to understand, document and confirm business requirements.
  6. Responsible for the technical definition of all information requests ensuring alignment to national strategies, regulatory requirements and local Trust requirements.
  7. Translate complex aims and needs into clear and manageable plans and determine resource requirements to support product development and maintenance
  8. Ensure that requirements and definitions for reports and dashboards are understood by the Informatics delivery team
  9. Monitor progress of delivery of reports and dashboards and provide regular updates and communication to the requestor.
  10. Ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of business information throughout the product development processes
  11. Continuously improve approaches to IT requirements gathering, analysis and business modelling, including educating, coaching and developing the skills of colleagues to improve quality of service
  12. Ensure all reports and dashboards are built to an appropriate level of quality and meet assurance criteria
  13. Facilitate, monitor and feedback user acceptance testing of reports and dashboards
  14. Ensure and provide evidence that all outputs and products produced are fully assured and sustainable.
  15. Attend business meetings and provide a high standard of communication to various stakeholder, including Service Directors.
  16. Maintain detailed knowledge of relevant NHS guidance, information strategy, compliance framework and policies.
  17. Assist in identifying any improvements to systems and processes within the SLP.
  18. Effectively communication and build strong relationships to ensure timely delivery.
  19. Demonstrate and evidence quality assurance processes
  20. Any ad hoc duties related to the above, commensurate with the banding of the post and current capacity.



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