Information Specialist | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Seaton Delaval; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is seeking an Information Specialist to join their Analytics and Reporting team. This role involves analyzing complex data, developing reporting solutions, and providing specialist training to improve data quality. The ideal candidate will hold an honours degree in a numerate subject and possess strong interpersonal skills for effective collaboration. This position requires on-site work three days per week and offers a chance to significantly impact patient care.

Qualifications

• Excellent inter-personal skills to foster working relationships.
• Specialist knowledge in analytics, equivalent to postgraduate level.

Responsibilities

• Analyse complex data and develop reporting solutions.
• Develop information and performance monitoring systems.
• Provide training to improve data quality.

Skills

Analytics and Reporting

Interpersonal skills

Data analysis

Education

Honours degree with substantial numerate content

Postgraduate knowledge in Analytics and Reporting

Job description

Overview

Are you an expert in Analytics and Reporting, looking to apply your skills in a role that makes a real difference to patient care? We are seeking an Information Specialist to join our Analytics and Reporting team and provide specialist advice and support relating to information analysis, interpretation, and reporting.

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. This role is key to the delivery of this element of the strategy through the use of the latest analytical techniques that turn data into innovative, compelling and intuitive information.

Please refer to the attached Role Description document for more information on the role.

We require full time cover for this role but are open to achieving this through job sharing. The successful candidate 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.

Responsibilities

• As one of the senior members of our Analytics and Reporting team, you will:
  • analyse complex data and develop information reporting solutions
  • communicate highly complex or sensitive information to managers and clinicians
  • facilitate team working and collaboration within teams, departments, and across organisational boundaries
  • explore and champion advances in analytical methodologies
• To provide specialist advice and support relating to information analysis, interpretation and reporting.
• To manage, maintain and develop information and performance monitoring systems.
• To contribute to the development of strategic and operational plans.
• To take a key role in improving data quality and data integrity throughout the Trust by providing ongoing specialist training to managers and clinicians.
• To analyse complex data and develop information reporting solutions.
• 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.

Qualifications

The successful candidate will hold an honours degree in a subject with a substantial numerate content and have specialist knowledge and expertise in Analytics and Reporting, equivalent to postgraduate degree level.

Skills and Attributes

The post-holder must have excellent inter-personal skills – pro-actively developing strong working relationships across relevant teams and ensuring that there is excellent communication with all relevant parties.

About the Trust

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.

Notes

• We encourage applications from all qualified individuals. This advert will close on Tuesday 7 Oct 2025.