Intelligence Specialist

Do you enjoy investigating data, developing reports, visualising and presenting your findings? Are you a problem solver? Do you have an intrepid approach to sharing knowledge? Would you like to help shape the future of the Health and Social Care System across Dorset?

These roles represent an excellent opportunity for personal and professional development with a huge scope to make a difference to the way we deliver services in Dorset and to significantly impact outcomes for patients and our population.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a confident, flexible, pro-active and responsive approach combined with the resilience to deal with shifting priorities and demands. You will ideally have experience of delivering business intelligence across multiple stakeholder groups ensuring effective engagement and communications. The ability to provide analytical support to quickly assimilate complex and/or conflicting information and determine appropriate action is essential. Detailed working knowledge of the Health and Care system is desirable, but not essential.

You will be passionate about using the latest innovations, designing, and delivering reporting solutions using data warehouses and data visualisation tools such as PowerBI to deliver insights which support strategic and operational decision making.

As we continue to develop towards working as an Integrated Care System (ICS), the Dorset Intelligence and Insight Service (DiiS), Dorset County Hospital (DCH) and the Integrated Care Board (ICB) are changing the way partner organisations share and use their data. Working within our team you will be instrumental in the design and delivery of Dorset’s approach to working collaboratively with ICS stakeholders ensuring that BI needs are developed, maintained and delivered. Our teams work flexibly across ICS partners and supports a hybrid working from home and on site, you will be required to meet centrally with the teams regularly across the county.

At Dorset County Hospital (DCH) we aspire to providing outstanding care for people in ways which matter to them. Our trust strategy is focussed on three strategic goals: People, Place, and Partnership. It signals our intention to truly value our staff. Our people are our most important asset, and we want them to feel valued, welcomed, respected, they belong and matter. We recognise the link between high levels of staff satisfaction and improving patient experience and outcomes.

These posts will be required to work and travel both in and out of county, working Monday to Friday. Flexible and part time working will all be considered. The Intelligence Specialists/Analysts will proactively support senior decision makers to make, data driven, strategic and operational decisions through the creation and interpretation of intelligence by:

- Supporting the operational and strategic decision-making process through the provision of focused business intelligence.
- Continually developing the information and business intelligence provision, working closely with all Trust staff to foster an intelligence led culture.
- Contributing to the provision of high quality, timely and accurate information and provide an expert analytical resource to several stakeholders and divisions.
- Producing internal and external reporting on behalf of the Trust, automating where appropriate.
- Recommending and implementing improvements to streamline and enhance existing processes, systems & tools, promoting greater efficiency and effectiveness within the Business Intelligence team.
- Proactively investigating issues and liaise with staff across the Trust in respect of data accuracy, validation, and correction.