# Information Analyst Specialist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Public Health Wales NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/information-analyst-specialist/124ebfd6-e94e-4ece-b2b1-8087fedf0f3b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/information-analyst-specialist/124ebfd6-e94e-4ece-b2b1-8087fedf0f3b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Public Health Wales NHS Trust - **Location:** 2 Capital Quarter - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Data analyst - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £40559.00 to £48841.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-16T11:03:40.301Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8366998 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8366998?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://phw.nhs.wales/ ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced data and information professional with a passion for using data to improve health outcomes? Public Health Wales is seeking an Information Analyst Specialist to join the Wales Cancer Registry and play a key role in delivering high-quality cancer intelligence that supports patient care, service planning, research, and national policy. Based within a specialist cancer registration team, you will work with complex healthcare datasets, provide expert analytical and technical support, and contribute to the continuous development of cancer registry services across Wales. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a nationally important service that supports cancer surveillance, research, service planning, and policy development across Wales. You will join a supportive team committed to innovation, quality improvement, and delivering high-quality cancer intelligence that makes a difference to population health. ### Main duties of the job As an Information Analyst Specialist, you will provide specialist expertise in areas of cancer registration, healthcare data analysis, and information management. Working with complex datasets from multiple sources, you will support the collection, validation, linkage, analysis, and interpretation of cancer data to ensure the delivery of accurate, timely, and robust cancer intelligence products. You will collaborate with stakeholders providing specialist advice, supporting research, and helping shape the future development of cancer registration services in Wales. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Main Duties and Responsibilities - Manage the acquisition, validation, linkage, and maintenance of cancer registration and healthcare datasets. - Analyse and interpret complex cancer and healthcare data to support intelligence, surveillance, research, and service improvement. - Use SQL and other analytical tools to extract, manipulate, and quality assure data. - Produce routine and ad hoc reports, data outputs, and intelligence products. - Investigate and resolve data quality issues and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives. - Provide specialist advice on cancer registration standards, methodologies, classifications, and data quality. - Support research studies, publications, and contribute to official statistical outputs. - Contribute to system development, process improvement, and innovation within cancer registry services. - Deliver training, mentoring, and guidance to colleagues and stakeholders. - Ensure compliance with information governance, confidentiality, and data protection requirements.Please be advised that the vacancy may close earlier that is noted subject to number of applications ### Applicant requirements Welsh language skills are desirable ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Commitment to Public Health Wales values and behaviours. - Commitment to continuous professional development - Flexible approach to supporting service requirements and organisational priorities. - Ability to travel within Wales and England, including overnight stays when required. ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience acquiring, processing, validating and analysing complex healthcare datasets - Experience loading and maintaining data within large databases or information systems. - Experience using SQL to interrogate, extract and manipulate complex datasets. - Experience producing routine and ad hoc analytical outputs and reports. - Experience implementing data quality assurance and validation processes. - Experience supporting research projects through data extraction, analysis and dataset preparation. - Experience investigating and resolving complex information and data quality issues. - Experience supporting information system development, testing or implementation activities. - Experience presenting information and providing specialist advice to a range of stakeholders. - Experience of handling sensitive patient identifiable data in line with information governance procedures - Experience of training and supporting colleagues in data systems or processes **Desirable** - Experience working with cancer data and other related healthcare datasets. - Experience of producing health intelligence outputs - Experience supporting audits, service evaluations or research publications - Experience developing automated analytical processes. - Experience of registry systems and record linkage methodologies. ### Skills and Attributes **Essential** - Proficient in SQL querying and database interrogation skills - Advanced data manipulation, transformation and validation skills - Excellent analytical, statistical and problem-solving abilities. - Ability to analyse highly complex datasets and identify trends, anomalies and quality issues. - Ability to design and implement robust quality assurance processes - Ability to prepare and quality assure data extracts for research, audit and publication purposes. - Ability to interpret complex information and communicate findings effectively. - Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities - High level of accuracy, attention to detail and professional integrity - Work independently within broad professional and organisational policies, exercising specialist judgement when determining analytical approaches, resolving complex data issues and prioritising competing work demands. - Training, coaching or facilitation skills **Desirable** - Experience of ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) processes. - Experience using analytical and data visualization tools eg, Power BI, SAS - Experience of automation, workflow optimisation and service improvement methodologies. ### Qualifications and Knowledge **Essential** - Degree or equivalent qualification in a related discipline eg, Health Informatics, Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, or equivalent level of skills and knowledge. - Proficient in SQL querying, data extraction and data manipulation techniques - Sound understanding of database structures, data management and analytical methodologies. - Well-developed knowledge of information analysis, data quality assurance and information management principles. - Knowledge of cancer registration methodology, healthcare information systems and data quality standards. - Knowledge of information governance, confidentiality and data protection legislation - Knowledge of data linkage, record matching and validation methodologies. **Desirable** - Professional qualification in informatics, analytics, cancer registration or data science - Advanced understanding of cancer staging, classification and coding systems. - Registry-specific expertise - Knowledge of NHS Wales datasets and information systems ## Documents - [privacy notice (pdf, 704.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2374) - [oh form - ig ffurflen (pdf, 232.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10701345) - [our diversity networks (pdf, 330.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2347) - [disability confident employer (pdf, 180.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2070) - [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 278.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2346) - [swydd ddisgrifiad & manyleb y person (pdf, 152.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10694209) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 80.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10694210) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - 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