About this role
Job summary
This is a great opportunity for an experienced analytics leader who wants to use data and insight to makea practical difference to healthcare across South East London. You'll work closely with senior leaders and analytical teams across SEL with a focus on our Borough based teams, helping to shape the way we use data to understand our population,support decision-making and improve services.
The role covers a broad mix of leadership, analytics and system working, including:
- Developing our approach to Population Health Management (PHM) and supporting better use of data across primary, secondary and community care.
- Continuing to modernise how we work, including Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAP), Python/R and use of the Snowflake data platforms.
- Leading and developing analytical teams, with a focus on producing genuine insights to enable our Boroughs to understand and commission for their local populations
- Working with colleagues across the ICB, trusts, local authorities and other partners to understand health inequalities and support improvements to care pathways.
It's a role with plenty of scope to shape how analytics is delivered and used across the system, with work that ultimately supports decisions affecting more than 2 million people across South East London.
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Head of Analytics & Insights (Place) is a senior analytical leader within the SEL Population and Borough Insights team, part of the wider Analytics & Insights function supporting South East and South West London ICBs. Reporting to the Associate Director of Analytics & Insights, the post-holder provides analytical leadership across South East London, overseeing the development and delivery of business intelligence, reporting and analytical solutions that support strategic commissioning, planning and service transformation. The role has a particular focus on providing analytical leadership and support to Place and neighbourhood teams, helping them make effective use of data and insight to understand their populations and inform local planning and decision-making.
This includes developing Population Health Management (PHM) and Health Inequalities analytics, activity modelling and benchmarking. The postholder also leads and develops analytical staff with their team, supports technical innovation and deputises for the Associate Director of Insights when required.
The role is based in Tooley Street, London Bridge, with hybrid working available. Occasional travel to our Place-based team offices, co-located with their Local Authority, may be required.
About us
In 2025, the boards of NHS South East London ICB and NHS South West London ICB took the decision to enter into a clustering arrangement. This means that we share a chair, chief executive officer and an executive team, but we remain as separate, statutory organisations.
This also means that the ICBs will share some teams, who will be working across both organisations. Some teams will also be working across both geographical areas and integrated care systems. This is a period of change for the NHS. The Government's 10 Year Health Plan presents an ambitious vision for a future NHS, with emphasis on the three 'shifts' - from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from cure to prevention - all underpinning the new neighbourhood health service.ICBs are also changing, with a clear focus on strategic commissioning and delivering neighbourhood working.
This is an exciting time to work within our ICBs. We currently have the opportunity both to shape the future of our clustered organisations, and to be part of a radical transformation of care for the local people and communities across south London. And while our two ICBs are different in some ways, improving lives for the people we serve is at the core of what we are both here to do. Please note as you can only be employed by one ICB, this job description refers to 'the 'ICB', but your role may cover both ICB organisations, and / or geographical areas.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience working at a senior level in a specialist area
- Evidence of ongoing personal and Professional development
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of population health management principles and analytics to support key decision making.
- Experience of managing and coordinating a large team of technical experts as part of a wider multi disciplinary strategic commissioning team and of working with a wide range of stakeholders, including acute providers.
- Experience in writing complex SQL code and manipulating large datasets prior to presentation, using tools such as Microsoft Power Query
- Experience in creating, maintaining, and updating Power BI based reports and using SharePoint to store, organize, share, and access these Reports.
- Fully conversant with the Information Governance rules around access to and use of Personal Confidential Data (PCD).
- Working knowledge of analysing NHS data sources and information flows and their scope and limitations, as well as of other relevant public and private sector Business Intelligence best practice.
Desirable
- Experience with using Snowflake to interrogate structured and unstructured data and write complex code
- Robust practical knowledge and proficiency in designing and maintaining automated/advanced reporting systems, using Python, DAX, R, and other languages
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- Ability to direct and actively support the activities of others in the team and inspire them to continuously improve processes and skills.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
NHS South East London Integrated Care Board
Address
Tooley Street
160 Tooley Street
London
SE1 2TZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.selondonics.org/ (Opens in a new tab)