Information Analyst | Sponsorship Available

Position: Information Analyst

Job Type: Full Time

Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year Per annum

Location: Seaton Delaval

Employer: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Application Deadline: August 2^nd 2026

Job summary

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?

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.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been 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.

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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job description

Job 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.

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
• Educated to degree level, or equivalent experience, in a numerate discipline, preferably mathematics or statistics

Experience and knowledge

Essential

• Advanced computing skills in one or more programming languages (for example, SQL, R, Python)
• Expertise in Microsoft Office packages – in particular, Excel

Desirable

• Knowledge of NHS performance measures and regulation
• Knowledge of clinical terminology
• Previous information analysis experience

Other

Essential

You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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.

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