Senior Cancer Analyst | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Southend University Hospital NHS Trust; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Senior Cancer Analyst to join their Analysis & Reporting team in the UK. The role involves leading cancer programs, ensuring high-quality support, and contributing to reporting functions. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in NHS analytics, data analysis, and a strong understanding of cancer pathways, ideally with knowledge of Power BI and the Somerset Cancer Management system. This position offers an opportunity to make meaningful contributions to cancer care outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive NHS analytics experience required.
• Ability to extract, process, and analyze data from various systems.
• Good understanding of cancer pathways essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead on allocated cancer programmes and ensure high-quality support.
• Contribute to statutory returns and regular reporting.
• Develop new reports in Power BI and fulfill ad hoc data requests.

Skills

NHS analytics experience

Data extraction and processing

Cancer pathway understanding

Experience with Somerset Cancer Management system

Tools

Power BI

Job description

The Healthcare Analytics department within Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a Senior Cancer Analyst to join its Analysis & Reporting team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual who has established analyst experience, including cancer reporting knowledge, to join us. The Healthcare Analytics department is pivotal to ensuring the data and analytics needs of the organisation are met and in supporting the organisation to make data driven, evidence based, decisions. This is particularly important for the cancer agenda, supporting pathway improvements and reporting.

The Analysis and Reporting team is a welcoming, experienced and supportive team. There are clear and documented processes to help the team members navigate through the various requirements of their roles. You will work to deliver an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Cancer directorate to use analysis and insights to help improve outcomes for patients. The role supports driving transformation and will provide subject matter expertise analytics. There will be no line management responsibility but the candidate will work closely with other members of the team.

To support home working there are daily huddles to understand priorities for the day, key achievements and successes to be celebrated and opportunity to raise any issues or identify where support is required.

H3Responsibilities

The Senior Cancer Analyst is responsible for leading on allocated cancer programmes of work and ensuring the delivery of high quality support across the Cancer directorate. The wider team is responsible for the submission of statutory returns, production of regular reporting, development of new reports in Power BI and completion of ad hoc data requests for the Trust. The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of core cancer related functions within the team ensuring that information provided is accurate, complete, timely and adds value.

H3Qualifications

You will need to have extensive NHS analytics experience including experience of extracting, processing and analysing data from different source systems. You will need to be able to demonstrate a good understanding of cancer pathways and preferably have experience in cancer analysis and reporting. Previous experience of working with the Somerset Cancer Management system would be an advantage.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Please note as advised in line with Trust guidelines, the use of AI in completing applications should be declared.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a high number of applications.

This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Dec 2025