Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
The Performance and Modelling Analyst role sits within the Performance and Business Intelligence Division, reporting to the Associate Director of Performance and Planning. The post holder will play a key role in supporting the Performance team and working closely with corporate and Clinical Operational Management teams.
The role requires strong expertise in business analysis, developed through involvement in complex, high-profile projects, alongside recent experience working with a wide range of stakeholders in fast-paced, evolving environments. Excellent communication, planning, negotiation and influencing skills are essential, including the ability to navigate complex issues, build consensus and engage effectively across all organisational levels.
The successful candidate must be able to clearly communicate both technical and non-technical aspects of business analysis to diverse audiences. A passion for working in innovative, collaborative and inclusive environments is important, as is experience in large-scale or multi-functional organisational design projects from initial concept through to delivery.
Overall, the role is suited to a dynamic individual who can combine analytical expertise with strong interpersonal skills to support organisational performance and improvement.
Main duties of the job
The role supports the business in driving recovery, reviewing robust information and leading on complex analysis tasks. This is an important, role within the Trust, offering key analysis to senior management and the exec to assist with understanding and controlling performance and development modelling. The holder will actively promote the use of analytical methods, with a particular focus on modelling, Demand and Capacity analysis and benchmarking. Develop new solutions where needed to best meet requirements.
Act as a senior information representative at key meetings and discussions, both internal and external
Support collaborative working across divisions and in SE London
Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with NHS colleagues, consultants and contractors working on a variety of topics
Work effectively with corporate and operational colleagues within the Trust as well as in the ICB required
Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, presenting information, to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting
Committed to working and engaging constructively with internal and external stakeholders on a range of business sensitive issues
Nurtures key relationships and maintains networks internally and externally
Link with managers and members of other functions, to address inter-dependencies and ensure alignment
Apply a structured change management approach and methodology for the impact of any change
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Operational
• Produce KPI analysis and period performance.
• Support on ad hoc queries and scenario modelling (e.g., performance)
• Provision of data driven insight to senior team colleagues and exec directors to assist with decision making and optimising effective and efficient delivery of services
• Support the forecasting process for the performance and Planning functions and workstreams.
• Involvement in the design and development of reporting improvement programme.
• Look for efficiencies and opportunities in the business.
• To support the delivery of day-to-day activities.
• To be an integral part of the team and drive delivery of a range of business initiatives and projects.
• To support the identification and sharing of best practice in colleague engagement.
• To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
• Support the portfolio of initiatives in demonstrating value for money for the current spend through tracking, managing and delivering agreed benefits.
Analyst Role:
• Develop and maintain analytical capacity within the Trust – specifically employing strategic, predictive and demand and capacity analysis to aid decision making processes
• Develop and embed benchmarking use within the Trust – maintaining an awareness of external benchmarking.
• Apply your information knowledge and expertise to proactively support performance and planning information requirements.
• Act as an information ambassador for the performance and planning functions and discussions, including
with external bodies (e.g., commissioners, auditors)
• Develop a broad understanding of various reporting areas within the trust and adopt a pro-active approach to understanding new datasets, evaluating information needs and problem solving.
• Build strong working relations with all colleagues, in particular; with Senior
• Management, execs and the Finance, Workforce, Transformation QI and Strategy teams.
• Analyse performance, investigating the underlying causes and highlighting key issues for discussion and action. Clearly communicate key issues and risks highlighted by analysis.
• Contribute to the wider development of analysis technique – sharing new ideas and supporting application of best practice for analysis and information presentation.
• Provide support and training to enable management teams in performing their own basic analyses with minimal support.
• Provide presentations at a range of forums, delivering formal, highly complex information to varying groups / meetings.
• Collaborating with senior leaders, and the wider System to drive transformative strategic delivery.
• Utilising extensive business analysis techniques to effectively elicit and capture requirements.
• Leading the review and redesign of business and system processes, enhancing overall efficiency.
• Identifying project benefits and establishing measurable metrics for success.
• Contributing to fostering a culture of operational improvement across the Trust.
• Playing an active role in testing and other essential business analysis activities.
• Taking charge of initiatives within a dynamic and evolving environment, ensuring their successful execution.
• Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting delivery on time, to quality standards and in a cost effective manner.
• Work with Performance and BI colleagues and if required support other project as and when required. Management
• Directly responsible for day to day analysis work assigned to the team.
• Forge close positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
• To support, motivate and develop colleagues within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the new responsibilities of the NHS strategy.
• Managing third parties (such as consultants/interims) to ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner and within budget. Information Management
• Drafting reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Head of Department.
• Collate as required, qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust information and contribute to project ‘products’.
• Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making.
Person specification
Essential criteria
6. Educated to master level within a mathematical, statistical, economical or similar analytical discipline, or significant equivalent proven experience in specialist area
7. Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
8. FEDIP
Experience
Essential criteria
9. Significant experience of operational, clinical, financial or health care analysis work experience
10. Significant data management, data-oriented programming, engineering and development work experience
11. Excellent skills using Python for data analysis
12. Experience of advanced data science techniques such as neural networks, random forests, regression models and natural language processing
13. Experience of using predictive analytics, Markov models and large language models
14. Experience of using data visualisation software Power BI, Streamlit, Microsoft SQL Server skills
15. Significant experience of staff management, including the setting of objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues
16. Evidence of leading projects from inception to delivery, ensuring services. and objectives are met
17. Significant knowledge and experience of designing and implementing data models to meet business questions
Desirable criteria
18. Experience using Snowflake
19. Budget management experience
20. Knowledge of performance and contract management systems
Skills
Essential criteria
21. Advanced skills in use of Python for data analysis including use of SciKit-Learn, XG boost, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, JAX
22. Advanced skills around data handling including SQL, Numpy, Pandas, Polars
23. Advanced skills around visualisation using Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, Altair
24. Ability to communicate and present analysis in a clear and precise manner to non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders, and making. decisions where opinions differ/ no obvious solution
25. Technical skills in data management, business intelligence and analytics –including data modelling, data visualisation (e.g., Tableau, Business Objects, Power BI) and other supporting tools, e.g., Microsoft BI stack.
26. Demonstrable experience of directly managing, developing, motivating teams/individuals to ensure success.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.
Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.