University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Band 8a Informatics Business Partner
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Job Summary
The Health Informatics Business Partner provides embedded analytical, data, and insight support to a designated hospital site, ensuring that operational, clinical, and strategic decisions are grounded in high-quality information. The role strengthens the connection between central informatics functions and local site leadership, enabling the hospital to deliver safe, efficient, and patient-centred care.
This is a site-based role. The postholder will be specifically aligned to either Good Hope Hospital, Heartlands Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, or Solihull Hospital (one post for each site) and will work from their allocated site to provide a visible and responsive informatics presence. Candidates are invited to indicate their preferred hospital site at point of application.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
As a Health Informatics Business Partner, you will provide dedicated, site-based analytical, data, and insight support to senior hospital leaders.
Your day-to-day work will involve:
- Working closely with clinical, operational, and transformation colleagues.
- Understanding their needs.
- Providing analytical support that drives service improvement, strengthens performance management, and contributes to better patient outcomes.
We are looking for an experienced analytical professional with:
- Strong SQL and data analysis skills.
- Experience of working with large, complex datasets and reporting tools including Power BI.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and explain complex information clearly to non-technical audiences.
The ideal candidate will be analytical, self-motivated, detail-focused, with strong problem-solving skills, the ability to prioritize, work independently, and contribute effectively as part of a team.
About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value, and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values-driven in all that we do, and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such, we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long-term health condition, mental health, or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
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Job Description
Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential:
- Minimum grade C in GCSE English and Maths.
- Master's degree in scientific, or mathematical, or information technology discipline or equivalent relevant experience.
- Evidence of further professional development.
Desirable:
- Post Graduate qualification or equivalent knowledge and skills in a relevant discipline.
Experience
Essential:
- Significant previous experience working in an analytical role.
- Experience with database software and applications.
- Familiarity with database concepts.
- Experience of web-related technologies and the development of web-based reports.
- Experience of producing automated reports.
- Knowledge of dimensional data modelling methodologies & relational database design.
- Experience in providing user support.
- Experience of and confidence in interacting with senior members of an organisation.
- Significant experience in SQL, handling, analysing, and manipulating large, complex datasets.
- Significant experience of analysing and interpreting complex information and presenting it in a simplified manner.
- Significant experience of generating reports using tools such as Power BI/Spotfire/SSRS.
- Experience in querying / designing Dimensional Modelled Databases.
- Supervisory or team leadership experience.
- Experience in management of others' workloads, including the delegation of jobs.
- Experience in researching user needs and using this to inform the design of products.
- Understanding of NHS Healthcare Service.
- Knowledge of NHS data standards, definitions, and guidance, or demonstrated ability to rapidly acquire such knowledge.
- Knowledge of querying of NHS datasets / systems (or other highly complex data).
Desirable:
- An understanding of the NHS Strategy & Performance Frameworks.
Additional Criteria
Essential:
- Ability to use Microsoft Office suite.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced keyboard skills and understanding of simultaneous working across multiple computer applications.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- An excellent communicator with impressive skills in oral and written presentation.
- Experience of Microsoft BI tools including SQL Server (T-SQL), Analysis Services & Integration Services.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously and effectively within a team.
- A desire to continue personal professional development, learn new technologies, updating skills and knowledge on an on-going basis.
- Attention to detail.
- Professional manner.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills.
- Ability to prioritise tasks.
- Ability to manage own workload as well as the workload of staff.
- Ability to build positive relationships with colleagues internal and external to the organisation as required.
- Experience in providing user support.
- Experience of interacting with senior members of an organisation.
- Ability to use own initiative to determine the most appropriate methods to achieve expected work tasks and outcomes.
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Desirable:
- Experience of using statistical software packages such as SAS, Python, or R.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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.
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.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
James Parr
james.parr@uhb.nhs.uk
07876060315
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£57528.00 to £64750.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-1103484
Job locations
Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
Attachments
- Job Description
[Band 8a JD PS.pdf – 509KB](Opens in a new window)
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