Information Analyst

Job overview

Do you have a passion for data? Do you have a yearning to turn data into insights, and to enhance the delivery of patient care and safety through rigorous analysis?  Are you looking for a role where you will be exploring advances in technologies, 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.  You will be working in a team that is key to delivering this element of the strategy using highly developed skills in the use of data and analytics.

Our department covers all things ‘data’, including:

• capture of data – data structures within electronic, operational, clinical and administrative systems; how the human interactions with these systems support the capture of good quality data
• transfer of data between systems
• storage and data from multiple systems – building and maintaining data within our data warehouse to enable efficient access of ‘real-time’ and ‘snapshot’ data
• data management – data quality, data integration and documentation
• analytics – visualisation and dashboards; supporting operational and mandatory reporting, machine learning

Successful candidates would be expected to work on site three days per week.

This vacancy may close prior to the closing date if a large volume of applications is received.

Main duties of the job

Our Analysts cover many roles.  These could include, but are not limited to, the following:

• investigation, development and production of ad-hoc analyses to support operational and clinical services within the organisation
• development, production and submission of nationally mandated data returns and data flows
• development, production and submission of data and reports required to support the organisation's financial flows
• production of regular reports
• development of reports within our business intelligence environment
• investigation and resolution of data quality issues
• involvement in specific Trust projects

Candidates will be required to attend a face-to-face test. Candidates who pass the test will then be invited to interview.

We expect tests to take place week commencing 5th January 2026, and interviews to take place week commencing 19th January 2026.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a data and analysis service to senior managers and clinicians through analysis and interpretation of clinical data and to contribute to performance monitoring. 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.