Senior Information Analyst

Job summary

Do you have a passion for data? Do you have a yearning to turn data into insights, and to make an impact in a healthcare setting through advanced analysis? Are you looking for a role where you will be learning new skills rapidly and delivering great results in a fast-paced environment? If so, we may have just the job you're looking for!

At the heart of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's ambitious Digital Strategy is the provision of high-quality data to support intelligence-led decision making. Our data engineering/analytical roles are key to the delivery of this element of the strategy through the use of the latest data engineering and analytical techniques.

Main duties of the job

This post will be based within the Trust's Information Services team which encompasses Data Integration/Engineering and Analytics.

Using your highly developed data engineering and analytical skills, you will contribute to the implementation of systems, interfaces, data warehousing and reporting which will support our digital strategy and help enable data-driven business decisions across the trust.

We currently operate a hybrid office/local home-based working model.

We are based at Northumbria House, Cobalt Business Park. There are good transport links - buses from Newcastle stop directly outside our office building. Note, we may be moving offices to Seaton Delaval in the near future.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Date posted: 24 March 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 18 months

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: 319-7078814JN

Job responsibilities

To provide a data and information service to senior managers and clinicians through analysis / interpretation of clinical data and data flows. To assume responsibility for specific areas of work within the Information Services Analysis, BI, Data Integrations & Systems teams. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential

• Practical, statistical, analytical and numerical skills supported by an honours degree or equivalent experience, in a subject with a substantial numerate content as evidence that the post holder has achieved a high level of logical thinking and adaptability to learning sophisticated computer programming languages.
• Significant experience of working in the field of data and information including knowledge of complex systems and data models to enable the provision of advice to Senior Managers. This is specialist knowledge of data and information equivalent to a Postgraduate diploma.

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject
• Member of a professional body

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here.

Employer details

Employer name: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Northumbria House, Cobalt, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE27 0QJ

Employer's website: https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/