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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Information Analyst
Accepting applications until: 20-Apr-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 20-Apr-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Freeman Hospital
- Town
- 317 01 Freeman Hospital
- Postcode
- NE7 7DN
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (until 01 November 2026)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- 317 Cardiothoracic Information Management
- Interview date
- 29/04/2026
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
The post holder will work as part of the cardiothoracic information data team in a job share role sharing responsibilities for reviewing and validating MINAP and BCIS data for cardiology for national audit returns for submission to NICOR (National Institute of Cardiovascular Outcomes Research). The post holder will work with various staff groups within the organisation, primarily interacting with clinical staff, to ensure that the data collected is accurate, complete and of the highest possible quality to support patient care, data analysis and clinical research.
- Interview Date Wednesday 29 April 2026
- 18 Hours 45 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
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The postholder will communicate with a range of professionals both internally and externally to the Trust and will develop and maintain good working relationships with others and ensure information is effectively sourced from various areas and accurately transferred between sources. As well as coordinating dataflows, the postholder will build subject matter expertise about the information being collected.
With strong analytic skills, the post holder will act as a key stakeholder in undertaking critical analysis and will provide the necessary reports and statistics required to support monthly clinical meetings and promulgate key findings to senior management and clinical staff across the organisation and wider network. The post holder should understand and be able to explain performance targets, that may be highly complex and specialist in their nature and communicate these in an understandable way.
As a data team we are continuously looking at how we capture data/information and how it is used to promote learning, quality improvement and highlight opportunities for improving patient care. Therefore, in this role the post holder will be a strong team player and have a flexible and professional attitude to work and will be an advocate for driving innovation to continuously improve ways of working.
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will require excellent analytical skills with experience of large and complex datasets and will be expected to:
- Review, interpret and validate clinical information recorded by clinicians to ensure that it is accurate and complete.
- Communicate with and encourage clinicians to provide accurate and complete data.
- Be confident in challenging clinicians if information and documentation is not accurate.
- Undertake regular quality assurance of data collected for clinical audit purposes, focusing on accuracy and completeness.
- Ensure that data collection and audit submissions are within agreed timescales and deadlines are met.
- Interpret and query any clinical audit data requests received and provide responses to the requesters within agreed timescales adhering to Caldicott guidelines.
- Provide statistical information and reports to clinicians and senior management on a regular basis to facilitate quality improvement.
- Retain a record of all audit requests in the Ad Hoc requests log ensuring that all requests to the data team are clearly defined, recorded and managed.
- Act as a point of contact and knowledge on the appropriate clinical system and provide training to staff on data entry and data field definition when required.
- Maintain a working knowledge of relevant procedures, practices and terminology to ensure clinical systems hold the most accurate clinical data.
- Ensure that patient records obtained for audit purposes are stored and maintained in a secure and confidential manner and that confidentiality and security of information is maintained in line with hospital policy, GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- • Relevant Degree Qualification or equivalent relevant experience
Desirable criteria
- • Diploma in Nursing or Health related topic
- • Registered General Nurse
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of identifying processes to improve efficiency of data processing
- • Awareness of current data protection legislation
- • Significant experience of both patient and process data collection
- • Experience or knowledge of electronic records
- • Experience in analysing large data sets
- • Specialist knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including PowerPoint, Excel and Access (databases)
- • Experience in data/database/information management
- • Ability to analyse problems in real time and understand user requirements
- • Experience of working in a healthcare environment
Desirable criteria
- • Previous cardiology experience
- • PC Support/knowledge of IT networks
- • Knowledge of medical terms and procedures
- • Microsoft SQL Server and Query
- • Experience in implementing or maintaining paperless working environments
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Experience in producing high quality reports, manipulating data, performing data analysis and producing reports in tabular, graphical and other formats
- • Excellent IT, analytical, numerical and statistical skills
- • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- • Ability to implement controls to ensure data confidentiality, accuracy and security
- • Demonstrates excellent organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to lead the design and implementation of data collection policies, procedures and processes
- • Software Support
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gwynneth Taylor
- Job title
- Information Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2231331
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