Advanced Workforce BI Analyst
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Workforce BI Analyst to join University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. The role focuses on business intelligence, data science, planning, reporting, information analysis, and developing workforce systems. The successful candidate will provide advanced analysis, data management, and reporting for the Trust, supporting workforce planning and ensuring data quality. This position requires an analytical, well-organised individual with excellent communication skills to work in a dynamic environment.
Key responsibilities
- Act as a lead analyst to provide specialist analytical support and proactively inform internal or external stakeholders about UHS workforce.
- Identify, manipulate, and analyse data from various sources to draw expert conclusions.
- Make recommendations to support workforce planning.
- Lead on all data quality and recording issues affecting UHS performance, staff, and patient experience.
- Use advanced analytics and data science tools to monitor and report on key performance indicators.
- Review and develop the business intelligence service to improve access to information, quality, and reporting.
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level in a numerate discipline or able to demonstrate an equivalent level of knowledge, skills and experience within a health informatics environment e.g. at senior analyst/principal analyst level
- Continuing development of knowledge and expertise within field
- Able to demonstrate the use of software to create new tools and resources.
- Able to demonstrate the use of software to process raw data, create complex reports and provide information outputs
- Experience and expertise in information management and delivery
- Knowledge of NHS workforce based data, staff information or administration systems (eg. ESR, electronic rostering systems) and operational reporting requirements
- Project management and implementation experience
- Demonstrable use of Management Information Systems and associated reporting tools at an advanced level
- Able to demonstrate extensive experience of information analysis and reporting
- Adaptation, creation, and implementation of policy and procedures within information setting
- PC computing environment including the use of desktop software at an advanced level
- Expertise and experience in dealing with identifiable data and commercially sensitive data
- Experience of leading service delivery to meet set timescales and deadlines
- Patients First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
Desirable criteria
- Healthcare workforce, information, analytics, data science or computing background.
- Evidence of continuing professional education in a relevant discipline, such as Healthcare, workforce data, intelligence, planning, management
- Experience within the subject area of healthcare mandatory reporting and data intelligence for all staffing groups with awareness of workforce pathways and environmental factors.
- Experience within the subject area of workforce planning, forecasting, activity based staff management and knowledge of NHS acute sector operational requirements
- Has used corporate or industry standard software to extract, transform and load data from different systems or sources.
- In depth specialist experience working as an analyst or analytics lead within a healthcare intelligence or reporting environment
- Reporting using SQL and SQL based tools on relational databases
- Experience of using or creating benchmarking / comparative analysis.
- Experience of training people how to use software / systems / information
- Experience of information management and delivery within the acute hospital sector
- Experience with using national NHS datasets.
- Has produced or interpreted advanced data visualisations within a professional capacity.
- Team and staff management at team head level or above
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
Advanced Workforce BI Analyst
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Job Title:Advanced Workforce BI Analyst
Contract Type:Fixed-term
Purpose for Fixed Term: Short-term project
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as an Advanced Workforce BI Analyst at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS). The role will have a primary focus on business intelligence, data science, planning, reporting, information analysis using digital solutions and developing the workforce systems. If you have previous experience in these areas whilst being able to manage a diverse group of stakeholders, we would love to receive your application.
The Workforce team provides advanced analysis, planning, data management and reporting internally and externally for the UHS as well as publishing findings and any suggestions on areas for further interrogation or development.
We need an approachable, analytical, well-organised individual with excellent communication skills who can work within a challenging, dynamic and fast-moving environment with critical deadl
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