Senior Clinical Analyst

The Methodist Church in Britain; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Conference attendance

Co-authorship of publications

Hybrid/onsite and home working

Job summary

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester is seeking a senior analyst to support the NHS Proton Registry and the evaluative commissioning programme for proton beam therapy. The post centres on complex SQL querying, dashboard design in Tableau or Power BI, and data quality assurance for national registry reporting and external statutory returns.

The role blends site-based and home working with travel to partner organisations, and offers opportunities for conference attendance and

Qualifications

• Graduate degree or demonstrable equivalent experience.
• Professional or technical qualification.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Ensure mandatory clinical and information returns are delivered on time.
• Lead data quality monitoring for accuracy and integrity.
• Deliver projects with documentation and support to analysts.
• Write complex SQL queries and produce data extracts.
• Design and produce Tableau or Power BI dashboards and reports.
• Analyze and resolve complex data queries across sources.
• Provide interpretation of technical information to stakeholders.
• Support NHS Proton Registry development and staffing needs.
• Represent the unit in meetings and report progress.
• Log and track queries/incidents and deputise when needed.
• Ensure compliance with data protection and governance rules.

Skills

Relational databases

Data warehousing

SQL querying

Dashboard design

Tableau / Power BI

Data quality assurance

MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Data interpretation for stakeholders

Education

Graduate degree level or equivalent

Professional/technical qualification

CPD demonstrated

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

The Proton Clinical Outcomes Unit at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a senior analyst to support the NHS Proton Registry and the evaluative commissioning programme for proton beam therapy. The post centres on complex SQL querying, dashboard design in Tableau or Power BI, and data quality assurance for national registry reporting and external statutory returns. It combines site-based and home working with travel to partner organisations, and the unit's work can lead to conference attendance and co-authored publications. Substantial analytics experience is needed.

What the job involves

• Ensure systems deliver mandatory, clinical and informational requirements on time and accurately, including external statutory information returns
• Lead on data quality monitoring to assess the accuracy and integrity of data for analysis and reporting
• Deliver projects to agreed specifications and timescales, with project documentation, supporting team analysts and statisticians
• Write complex SQL queries and produce data extracts for research and audit projects
• Design and produce Tableau or Power BI dashboards and written insight reports
• Analyse, investigate and resolve complex data queries, joining multiple data sources
• Provide and interpret complex technical information for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Support development of the NHS Proton Registry, advising on infrastructure, software, staffing and business cases
• Represent the unit at internal and external meetings and report progress
• Act as first point of contact for team queries, problems, requests and incidents, logging and tracking them
• Deputise for the PCOU and Registry Manager when requested
• Ensure working practices comply with Trust, NHS and legislative requirements, including data protection and information governance

What’s required

Qualifications

• Graduate degree level or demonstrable equivalent experience
• Relevant professional or technical qualification
• Evidence of continuing professional and personal development

Experience

• Substantial experience in an analytics role analysing complex data and serving data requests
• Substantial experience querying databases using SQL
• Experience building dashboards in BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI
• Experience monitoring and improving data quality and integrity
• Extensive experience with MS Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams and Outlook

Skills & knowledge

• Advanced knowledge of relational databases and data warehousing principles
• Knowledge of system integration interfaces and data exchange between systems
• Knowledge of hospital services and how they interlink
• Knowledge of hospital information systems
• Expert knowledge of a wide range of data analysis approaches and their appropriate use

Other

• Demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours
• Maintain confidentiality of patient data and sensitive business information
• Able to travel to Christie-managed or partner sites and work flexibly to meet deadlines and core service cover

Nice to have

• Postgraduate education in an informatics, scientific or mathematical discipline
• Database, dataflow or reporting practitioner certificates, such as SQL or Microsoft server tools
• Evidence of formal statistical training
• Experience of clinical trials or studies
• Experience of audit methodologies
• Experience of academic writing for publication
• Experience of redesigning data capture processes and implementing change
• Knowledge of cancer services

What’s offered

• Conference attendance
• Co-authorship of high-impact publications
• Option to work a mix of onsite and home working