Head of Analytics and AI

Job description

Job responsibilities

The main duties of the Head of Analytics and AI role include:

1. Team Management: Lead and manage three teamsAnalytics and AI, Elective Access Reporting, and Performance Reportingensuring they deliver high-quality, accurate, and timely reports that support decision-making within the Trust.

2. Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement corporate analytics initiatives, working closely with senior leaders to align reporting with the Trusts strategic goals, including data science, predictive analytics, and AI.

3. Performance Reporting: Oversee the Trust's performance reporting, ensuring robust systems are in place to track and report on key metrics, including compliance with national elective access reporting requirements.

4. Resource Management: Allocate and manage resources effectively to meet the information needs of the Trust and external bodies, ensuring that projects and workstreams are delivered on time and within budget.

5. Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including senior management, clinicians, and commissioning bodies, to ensure reporting meets both local and national strategic objectives.

6. Risk and Compliance Management: Manage and report risks related to information reporting, ensuring adherence to NHS Information Standards and Trust policies, and support the Trusts Digital Strategy.

7. Team Development: Oversee the professional development of team members, including conducting performance reviews, mentoring, and providing pastoral support to enhance their skills and performance.

8. Administrative Duties: Handle administrative tasks such as managing team rosters, signing off timesheets, and deputising for the Head of Informatics and Business Intelligence when required.

These duties ensure the effective operation and strategic alignment of the Trusts analytics and AI functions, contributing to improved patient care and organisational performance.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree level education in a numerate subject plus at least seven years post degree experience in informatics, analysis and reporting or length of service and experience equivalent

• MBA, Masters or PhD in numerate subject
• Relevant professional registration (e.g., UK Council for Health Informatics Professions; Operational Society Fellowship)

Experience

• Multi-Team management and staff development
• Strategy
• In depth experience of information analysis and reporting
• Experience in communicating complex issues to a wide audience
• Experience in building and maintaining working relationships to a senior level

• NHS report management experience
• Experience with NHS information systems
• Business Intelligence tools
• Experience of Microsoft Azure tools
• Knowledge of OpenAI

Skills

• People Management
• Process Management
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to diagnose complex problems, situations and or information and make informed judgement to formulate solutions and recommend/decide on best course of action
• Ability to think strategically whilst leading teams to deliver results across a number of complex projects with numerous interdependencies

• Business Intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau PowerBi)
• Project management
• SQL
• Excel
• Python
• Artificial intelligence techniques (e.g., Machine learning, Large Language Model (LLM))

Knowledge

• Staff management approaches
• Reporting solutions
• Report management
• Database management systems

• NHS data sets
• NHS administrative systems: e.g., Cerner
• Business intelligence toolset
• NHS national returns

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's Hospital

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT

https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/