Deputy Information Business Partner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 19/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Deputy Information Business Partner within the Information Management, Business Intelligence and Business Information Performance Analysis team. You will work with operational and clinical teams to provide accurate and useful information for planning and decision-making. Key responsibilities include leading waiting list management, developing reporting tools, ensuring information assurance, and providing advanced analysis for demand and capacity planning. The position aims to help teams turn information into insight to improve services and patient outcomes.
Essential criteria
- Educated to Bachelor's degree level in relevant field or equivalent
- combination of post graduate qualification, courses and experience
Desirable criteria
- Health Informatics, Information management or Statistics qualification.
- Knowledge of NHS data standards and data definitions and NHS IM&T initiatives
- Extensive experience of producing management information and adding value to it for all tiers of a complex organisation
- Analysing information in a health environment
- Skills & Knowledge
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both written and oral at all levels both within the trust and with external stakeholders
- Proven track record of working under pressure to strict deadlines
- Very high level of numeracy and problem solving skills
- Advanced Architect and Developer skills in BI tools in particular Power BI
- Querying and reporting against relational databases including uses of Structured Query Language (SQL) or similar
- Strong Excel skills
- Extensive knowledge of implementing information infrastructure and reporting suites
- Advanced querying and reporting against large relational database management systems
- Other
- High level of work organisation, self motivation and drive for performance
- Reliance and ability to deal with conflicting views and emotional situations
- Engages in constructive debate and participates in evidence based decision making
- Education/Qualification
- Educated to Bachelor's degree level in relevant field or equivalent
- combination of post graduate qualification, courses and experience
- Health Informatics, Information management or Statistics qualification.
- Knowledge of NHS data standards and data definitions and NHS IM&T initiatives
- Extensive experience of producing management information and adding value to it for all tiers of a complex organisation
- Analysing information in a health environment
- Skills & Knowledge
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both written and oral at all levels both within the trust and with external stakeholders
- Proven track record of working under pressure to strict deadlines
- Very high level of numeracy and problem solving skills
- Advanced Architect and Developer skills in BI tools in particular Power BI
- Querying and reporting against relational databases including uses of Structured Query Language (SQL) or similar
- Strong Excel skills
- Extensive knowledge of implementing information infrastructure and reporting suites
- Advanced querying and reporting against large relational database management systems
- Other
- High level of work organisation, self motivation and drive for performance
- Reliance and ability to deal with conflicting views and emotional situations
- Engages in constructive debate and participates in evidence based decision making
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Information Management, Business Intelligence and Business Information Performance Analysis team as a Deputy Information Business Partner.
You will work closely with operational and clinical teams to understand their information needs and ensure they have accurate, useful information to support day-to-day work, planning and decision-making. You will:
- Lead on Trust waiting list management and support divisions to apply best practice.
- Develop and improve reporting tools, including the Trust's data warehouse portal, and manage key internal and external information outputs.
- Provide information assurance, identifying and escalating data or reporting issues appropriately.
- Build confidence and capability in using information through training, coaching and practical support.
- Provide advanced analysis and support areas such as demand and capacity planning and performance management.
- Help implement Trust information standards and promote effective use of data.
This role offers the opportunity to make a visible difference by helping teams turn information into insight, improve services and support better outcomes for patients and communities. We welcome applications from people with different backgrounds and experiences who can contribute to our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
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