UHN Patient Safety Data Analyst

Job overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and analytically skilled Patient Safety Data Analyst.

This pivotal role is central to strengthening patient safety across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire by providing high‑quality data insight, intelligence, and analytical support. You will drive improvements through robust data analysis, enabling the organisation to meet key patient safety objectives and deliver an evidence‑based approach to learning and quality improvement.

This role requires excellent analytical skills, strong communication abilities, and the confidence to translate complex information into clear messages that support organisational learning and safer care.

If you are passionate about using data to drive meaningful improvement, thrive in a dynamic environment, and are committed to supporting the delivery of safe, high‑quality patient care, we would welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

This pivotal role will actively drive measurable improvements in patient safety by harnessing advanced data analytics to inform strategic decision-making, underpin effective incident responses, and rigorously evaluate the impact of safety interventions.

As an integral member of our team, you will play a central part in the implementation, monitoring, and continual enhancement of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). You will ensure that our organisation’s approach to patient safety remains robust, evidence-based, and rooted in a culture of ongoing learning and quality improvement.

A key responsibility will be the comprehensive monitoring, in-depth analysis, and clear evidencing of progress in meeting essential clinical compliance targets, particularly in relation to sepsis, Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), and Venous Thromboembolism (VTE).

The role demands proactive identification of trends and risks, provision of actionable insights to multidisciplinary stakeholders, and a commitment to championing best practice in data governance and patient safety across the organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Patient Safety Data Analyst plays a key role in supporting the delivery of safe, high‑quality care across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). The post holder is responsible for  validating, analysing and presenting patient safety data to support effective decision‑making, learning, and improvement.

Main Responsibilities

• Systematically collect, clean, validate, and manage data on patient safety incidents, near misses, adverse events, compliance with sepsis, AKI, and VTE targets, and other key safety indicators from multiple internal and external sources.
• Perform advanced statistical analyses and data modelling to uncover trends, identify emerging risks, and support the prioritisation of safety improvements in alignment with PSIRF principles and compliance targets.
• Produce insightful dashboards, visualisations, and regular reports that clearly communicate findings, recommendations, and learning opportunities to multidisciplinary stakeholders, including clinicians, managers, and governance teams, specifically highlighting progress on sepsis, AKI, and VTE compliance.
• Work in partnership with the Patient Safety Team, clinical leads, and incident investigators to provide timely and robust data support throughout the PSIRF response cycle, including the identification, investigation, and learning from patient safety incidents and compliance breaches.
• Enable continuous monitoring and evaluation of implemented safety actions, using data to measure effectiveness and inform ongoing quality improvement efforts, especially in relation to sepsis, AKI, and VTE performance.
• Support thematic reviews and deep-dives into patient safety issues, providing analytical expertise and ensuring alignment with PSIRF’s learning and improvement ethos.
• Champion the best practices for data governance, data protection, and confidentiality, ensuring all data analysis activities comply with relevant laws, regulations, and organisational standards.
• Drive the development and refinement of data collection tools, methodologies, and systems to increase the reliability, timeliness, and relevance of patient safety data, including targeted audits and compliance reviews for sepsis, AKI, and VTE.
• Act as a subject matter expert for data analytics within the PSIRF framework, contributing to the development of local patient safety learning responses and facilitating organisation-wide understanding of data insights.
• Enables early identification of patterns and risks, supporting timely and targeted interventions.
• Provide evidence for prioritising safety initiatives and resource allocation based on actual patient safety data.
• Support effective incident response, in-depth investigations, and learning cycles by supplying accurate and relevant data throughout the PSIRF process.
• Measure the impact of safety interventions and compliance initiatives, ensuring continuous improvement and organisational learning, especially around sepsis, AKI, and VTE.
• Facilitate transparent communication and shared learning across the organisation, enhancing the safety culture.
• Work within the Trust guidelines regarding record keeping, data collection, safeguarding, confidentiality and health & safety.
• Contribute to reports as required within UHN e.g. Quality Dashboards and performance reports across UHN.
• Assess the robustness of data and ensure data analysis for projects and programmes is sufficient, robust and reliable.
• Perform complex analyses on data relevant to projects and programmes, including presenting data in a variety of formats, bar charts, statistical process control charts.
• Synthesise multiple sources to communicate on highly complex issues.
• Responsible for tracking data, including risks and issues, continuously to quickly resolve failures to meet project requirements and act accordingly to inform team members as appropriate.
• Analyse data to provide evidence for projects and programmes.
• Able to identify data requirements, define analysis requirements, design data gathering and desired outputs.
• Travel between the Northampton and Kettering Hospital sites and other sites where required.

For Full details and responsibilities of the role, please see attached job description and person specification