Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Senior Strategy Analyst

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Company Description
Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this. The single corporate service is delivered across both organizations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in-person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.
Job Description
"This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust & Portsmouth Hospital University NHS Trust only"
- NHS Band: 8a
- Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Hours Per Week: Full time 37.5 hrs
- Contract Type: Permanent
To serve as the organization's lead expert in forecasting, capacity planning, translating complex operational data into actionable insights that support strategic and operational decision-making. The post holder will work collaboratively with senior stakeholders across Operations, Finance, and other business functions to ensure resources, capacity, demand, and budgets are effectively aligned, while driving continuous improvement through analytics, reporting, and performance insight.
While the post is hosted within the Analytics Team, the post holder will work closely with the Strategy, Research and Transformation Team, proactively providing them with the analytical insights they need to develop strategies and projects.
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Specific Core Functions
- Supporting performance and planning activities across the group
- Tracking, analysing, interpreting, forecasting and reporting on performance
- Anticipating future analysis & information needs
- Providing information to help improve the efficiency of service & changing practices.
- Providing insights to inform the setting of performance targets & trajectories, using intelligence regarding the division, area, specialty or group
- Providing ‘user friendly’ reports, dashboards, intelligence and data, accessible to staff in the divisions, areas, specialties being supported
- Contributing to improvement; supporting performance reviews, audits and inspections, providing analysis, information and narratives
For full job details and personal specification, please refer to enclosed job description.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working in specialist area.
Desirable
- Professional Registration.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
- Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes / practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).
- Experience working on tactical & operational matters and managing analytical services (preferably in the public sector)
- Experience of working with complex performance and information management scenarios while also developing and presenting insights and guidance of a very high quality.


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- Experience of leading a code-first analytical function, with experience using and developing open-source code, and ‘coding-in-the-open’.
- Expert in open-source programming languages, such as Python/ R
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- A good understanding of data quality and the impact that poor data quality can have on patients and the group
- A good understanding of Information Governance, Data Sharing and Data Protection Principles
- A working knowledge of GDPR and how it applies to our work
Additional Information
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026
- Weekly Hours / Programmed Activities: 37.5
- Salary Band: Band 8a
- Staff Group: Administrative and Clerical
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Job Area: Admin and Corporate
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