Welcome from our Chief Executive - Samantha Allen

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Samantha Allen

Chief Executive

Job overview

Do you have an analytical background with a focus on technical leadership?

Does a role in the NHS, supporting crucial mental health services motivate you?

We are recruiting for a Reporting Lead to join us and provide technical leadership of performance reports across the Trust. As the Reporting Lead, you will be actively working with operational colleagues and other support services to ensure that our performance reporting is accurate, timely, consistent and provides a clear, easy to interpret overview of the Trust's position and progress.

You will be supporting the development of the PowerBI reporting suite to eventually become the primary reporting platform.

This role sits within the Performance and Improvement Team. You will be joining the team at an exciting time of development and expansion as we adapt and enhance our ways of working to meet the growing needs of the organisation for relevant, timely, accurate and clear data to inform and direct service development and improvements.

Main duties of the job

The key area of focus in this role will be to lead the team responsible for producing the Trust's integrated performance report (IPR) and associated reporting. This will include working with business managers and admin leads across the Trust to develop efficient reporting processes, ensuring that the datasets feeding the IPR (Integrated Performance Report) are accurate and consistent and provided to an agreed timetable.

You will be responsible for monitoring performance against agreed recovery action plans and supporting processes approved under the Trusts Integrated Assurance Framework. You will also be required to develop existing team heatmaps using PowerBI to provide reporting indicators for clinical teams. These heatmaps will include workforce, activity, finance and quality indicators.

You will need to use your team leadership skills, attention to detail, a creative, solution-focused approach and motivation to constantly improve the way we work.

Working for our organisation

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key survey results:

• 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
• 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
REQUIREMENTS

In order to be a successful Reporting Lead in our team you will:

• Have experience of performance reporting within a large organisation
• Have experience of leading a team through a process of change and development
• Have evidence of undertaking complex analytical reporting
• Have sound SQL skills and experience of developing reports in PowerBI
• Possess a motivation to improve the mental health services that we provide

It would also be advantageous if you have:

• Strong negotiation and communication skills
• An eye for clear, engaging data visualisation
• Experience working in the NHS, particularly within mental health

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact:

Rachael Humphrey - Head of Performance and Reporting: rachael.humphrey@spft.nhs.uk / 07393 140168

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Degree
• Masters, management qualification or equivalent experience

Experience
Essential criteria

• Experience of performance reporting across a large organisation with significant activity
• Experience of leading a team through a process of change and development
• Experience of developing clear and engaging reports and dashboards suitable for a range of customers - visualisation
• Experience of undertaking complex analytical reporting and translating operational processes into meaningful reporting and KPIs to derive insight and inform decisions
• NHS / Healthcare Experience

Skills
Essential criteria

• Able to communicate information in a manner that persuades colleagues and senior managers of the approach that should be taken to resolve complex technical and system issues in an accessible manner
• Relationship skills - build strong and effective working relationships with team members and key stakeholders
• Planning / organisation
• Excel / PowerBI / SQL

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.