Overview
WWL is pleased to offer a rare opportunity for a dynamic, forward-thinking individual to join our award-winning Data Analytics and Assurance Team. It’s an exciting time to join the Department as we transition to our new Snowflake Data Platform.
You’ll be passionate about using data and statistics, working closely with key stakeholders to deliver high-quality, insightful analytics that influence decision-making and improve patient care and outcomes.
You’ll bring extensive data analysis skills, a desire to fully understand questions and scenarios, and the ability to provide recommendations where answers aren’t always obvious.
You’ll work both autonomously and as part of a team across a portfolio of projects, providing expert knowledge of national standards, in-house designed statistical intelligence, and insightful apps. You’ll promote the proactive use of intelligence and support the Trust’s data-driven strategy.
We offer flexible working with a blend of office and home-based arrangements.
This vacancy is open to internal and external candidates. NHS employees should ideally secure managerial agreement for secondment prior to applying, as this will be a condition of any offer. The post is fixed term for 12 months to cover a secondment and will end after 12 months or when the substantive post holder returns. Whilst this post is advertised on a fixed term / secondment basis there is the potential that this post may become permanent in the future.
To work within the Elective Care Team in the provision of an Analytics and Business Intelligence service to the Trust, its Divisions, Corporate Functions and Commissioners.
The post holder will support the Analytics Service in the creation or interpretation of analytics.
The role will also support the design and rollout of data reporting structures and interactive dashboards and will aid the Data Technology Teams during their production.
The post holder will require good analytical, technical and communication skills in order to aid the production of accurate & robust statistics & intelligence.
The post holder will understand their stakeholder’s strategic direction, as well as current issues, in order to know how to prioritise & manage their workload to ensure the most effective outputs are delivered at the right time.
The post holder should have a good awareness of the Trusts external environment to identify & respond to variations from the local or national trends.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values.
· People at the Heart
· Listen and Involve
· Kind and Respectful
· ONE Team
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. We are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information available by contacting where you can also ask about how to access vaccinations.
Responsibilities
- To take a lead role in the implementation and monitoring of reporting mechanisms to improve Management Decision Making process.
- To lead in the provision of data intelligence and advice to the Divisional Director of Performance, Divisional Clinical Director, Performance Managers, Divisional Heads of Department and other managers within the relevant Directorates.
- To collaborate with the Divisions in their annual performance, business and commissioning planning processes.
- Meet with stakeholders to ensure that any potential opportunities or issues are identified early enough for action to be effective.
- To have responsibility for any intelligence produced, validated or submitted by the post holder and within the team under their direction.
- To support the quality and safety improvement within the division by providing analysis and guidance on measurement, reporting and data capture requirements.
- Integrate into the associated division / function and work alongside performance leads, clinicians, managers, accountants to fully understand their requirements.
- In collaboration with the Division, produce and review regular monthly assurance reports. Provide advice and support to divisional staff to aid interpretation of the reports and alerts to key managers with regards to anomalies and adverse variances.
- Liaise with the accountants to ensure a full understanding of activity issues affecting financial performance in order that the divisions can be supported with appropriate intelligence in understanding pertinent action and decisions necessary to rectify poor performance.
- Play a key role in obtaining divisional agreement and ownership of performance targets.
- Set the standard for reporting of activity and performance, as well as reporting styles and formatting for the other DAA Analysts to follow.
- Undertake constant horizon scanning to keep ahead of what is coming next to be prepared and aware of any business opportunities through review of benchmarking tools, advising and support the division / Trust accordingly.
- Produce sensitive and confidential data for ad-hoc requests. Liaising with other departments and outside agencies to ensure that all deadlines, particularly tight deadlines, are met.
- Perform complex patient based analyses from Trust’s systems to tight deadlines. To use the tools provided primarily by (but not restricted to) the data warehouse.
- Interpretation of national guidance/definitions and instigate and oversee the implementation of changes to the data warehouse.
- Support the data quality responsibilities of business intelligence projects through the identification of data anomalies, provision of appropriate analyses and participation in investigations / audits.
- Attend / participate in Trust training programmes, both within the department and with multi-disciplinary audiences.
- To be aware of national developments within the NHS and the wider business intelligence community, and lead on ensuring the department stays up to date in actioning to its reporting.
- Provide training sessions on a group or individual basis as and when required.
- Work with users to resolve problems and issues with Business Intelligence reporting.
- Work with clients in developing new BI reporting solutions and ensuring effective capture of end user requirements.
- Document all procedures and work closely with Digital Teams to ensure the ongoing improvement in Trust recording and configuration of systems.
- Support and promote the Trust’s DAA Strategy.
- Produce and safeguard sensitive and confidential data for ad-hoc requests.
- Liaise with other departments and outside agencies to ensure tight deadlines are met.
- Research and drive innovation, and where possible, explore automated approaches for BI reporting.
- Assist with the identification of efficiencies, while being able to understand and explain the potential knock-on effect to quality and performance.
- Provide the wider Trust with expert knowledge and understanding of the Trusts datasets, with the ability to explain the connection to operational processes.
This advert closes on Wednesday 8 Oct 2025
