Job Overview

The Business Intelligence Lead is an exciting role responsible for the development and delivery of evidence to understand the health of the Hillingdon population and to design, monitor and improve the services we provide. The role will embed a Population Health Management approach and lead on analysis and evaluation to support improvement across the Place Based Partnership.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be working closely with the HHCP Partners BI teams, Hillingdon Council’s public health team, and colleagues and external partners across the London Borough of Hillingdon to deliver the data and analytical requirements for the various work streams that support Hillingdon priorities. The role will develop an understanding of what data, and evidence is needed by place-based teams and will design analysis plans to provide that evidence. The post holder will be expert in relevant data sources and will deliver analysis and visualisation.

The postholder will interpret results and work with programme leads to use these to propose avenues for improving health and care. They will communicate complex and technical methods and findings clearly to a range of audiences. Collaboration and partnership working is a key part of the role and the post holder will engage proactively and widely with service leads, clinicians, analysts, data holders, residents and other stakeholders and will take a collaborative approach to all their work. They will be committed to improving population health and reducing health inequalities, inquisitive about health challenges, and able to see how data and evidence can be used to address these.

Working for our organisation

The postholder will be working in the the Core team of the Place-based Partnership. The team is friendly and supportive, enjoys hybrid working opportunities, and encourages innovation and self development.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Strategic focus

• Provide analytical leadership and insight to support the objective of the Pace Based Partnership priorities adopting a population health management approach
• Assess the analytical needs of place-based care and design and deliver bespoke analysis to meet these needs and to review these needs on a regular basis.
• Work with partners across HHCP to set the strategy and priorities for analytical projects that deliver maximum impact
• Promote collaboration with other analysts working in the system to identify areas of joint working on analytical projects that will have impact across West and North London.
• Advise and inform directors and senior leaders in the use of evidence and analysis in decision-making, planning, performance managing, commissioning and population health management.
• Present highly complex analytical information about projects, initiatives and services to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting and at board level.
• Develop research which supports evidenced-based decision-making and puts resident outcomes at the heart of what the partnership does
• Set the strategic direction for using Whole System Integrated Care data to address analytical questions relevant to the work of Hillingdon Place.

Operational focus

• Co-ordinate data requirements with central data teams to promote population health data approaches and allow linked data to be used to support effective complex case management and case finding.
• Prioritise and coordinate tight and often conflicting deadlines with short-term and more involved, highly complex tasks at place and system level
• Analyse highly complex and varied datasets, using advanced data manipulation and statistical techniques and create visualisations using modern analytical tools such as R and Python. You understand the principals of reproducible analysis and progress towards delivering Reproducible Analytical Pipelines for reporting where appropriate to reduce duplication of work and ensure analytical quality.
• Work collaboratively with place-based teams to deliver analysis and insight that informs focus areas and possible interventions with a focus on narrowing health inequalities.
• Keep abreast of emerging approaches and best practice in PHM and locally implement analytical techniques to address health inequalities and focus on prevention.
• Design and deliver deep dive analysis, apply techniques such as regression analysis and age standardisation to understand the drivers of inequality and opportunities for improved healthcare.
• Support with the evaluation of initiatives, implementing a Theory of Change approach to understand the effectiveness of approaches.
• Lead on the application of predictive and advanced analytical techniques and collaborate with senior stakeholders to define the topics in an NHS system where predictive analytics will potentially bring greatest health benefits
• Work effectively with clinical colleagues and cross-functional teams to identify key improvement areas and changes in patterns and trends. Understand what the impact of possible interventions could be.
• Communicate analytical findings effectively to deliver impact for a range of audiences. You will consider how you can lead conversations to promote evidence-based decision making and promote analytically sound ways of using data with stakeholders. You will use creative and engaging communication styles and visualisation to support the communication of analytical findings.
• Be the local information subject matter expert on:
  • analysis of population health, performance and activity,
  • core NHS datasets including Acute, Mental health, Community, Primary care and standardised coding systems such as ICD10 and SNOMED