Business Intelligence Facilitator

The Business Intelligence Facilitator will bring a passion to improve how we use intelligence to support our clinical services and deliver best patient outcomes.
You will bring a sound grounding in how we use information in the NHS to bring about improvement, experience of project management and service improvement and a strong commitment to your personal development and effectiveness in this area.
You will help ensure that our operational management and clinical teams use business intelligence effectively to support service management, planning, performance and improvement. You will collaborate with colleagues to provide a responsive BI service to meet their needs.
The Trust has begun an ambitious programme of digital transformation, and you will help ensure that the business intelligence benefits are fully realised., You will work closely with Clinical leaders, operational Service Managers, and BI colleagues, across our sites and services, to ensure that information and analysis is aligned to their needs and priorities.
You will have a sound knowledge of NHS information systems, data quality, targets and metrics. You will have an awareness of the annual planning cycle, key policy drivers, standards and mandates that our services must meet.
You will have experience of the use of information for excellence in operational delivery and service improvement. You will have a technical skill set in informatics to query complex data sets .
Ideally you will bring experience in project management and you may have NHS operational management experience. You will use your organisational skills to deliver a complex workload. You will possess excellent communication skills and the ability to building working relationships.
This post is a fantastic opportunity to connect business intelligence ever closer to our front-line services, ensuring they have the right information and insight to deliver the best patient outcomes.

Working for our organisation
Leadership and Improvement Training
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to
Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7., It is now the policy of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who are new to the Trust who require DBS clearance for the post they have been offered, are required to pay the cost of their DBS. The method of payment for this is via salary deduction from your first month's pay.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. We welcome applications from the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network; LGBT+ Network; Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions Network, Faith Network, Childless not by Choice Network and the Menopause Support Group.
As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you.
If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected]
The Trust encourages and supports all applicants to be fully vaccinated against both COVID19 and influenza.
Please be aware, there are occasions where some vacancies may close prior to the closing date advertised. This will only happen where sufficient applications are received AND will be made evident on the job advert.
Please note if you are successfully shortlisted, we will contact you via the email address that you have applied from so please ensure you check your emails regularly.
Existing employees of South Tees NHS Foundation Trust currently on the Redeployment Register, who meet the essential criteria for this post, will be shortlisted and interviewed prior to all other applicants.
IMPORTANT - Please ensure you read the 'Guidance Notes for Applicants' document attached to this advert before you start to complete your application form.
This document provides detailed advice regarding the completion of your application form.
The guidance document also provides in detail what identification and certificates you must provide at interview should you be shortlisted.
As part of our pre-employment screening process, all applicants are required to provide references from their last continuous 3 year employment and/or training/education. The referees MUST be a Line Manager/Supervisor. Applicants are requested to ensure email addresses for all referees are included on their application form. Personal references and references from colleagues are not acceptable.
Unfortunately we are unable to respond to all applicants and those who are not contacted within six weeks of the closing date should assume that their application has been unsuccessful.