Job summary
Information Analyst
37.5 hours per week
Fixed term for 15 months
Salary: £27,485 - £30,162 per annum
Closing Date: 28th August 2025
Interview Date: TBC
**This post may close early due tohigh numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.**
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Main duties of the job
To support the Information and Performance Directorate in providing an accurate and efficient information service for the trust. The post holder is required to extract, analyse and report information to agreed deadlines under minimal supervision. To process and validate national data sets and investigate data quality issues. To provide support and cover for colleagues where necessary.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme - find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Prepare and produce all national, local and internal report / submissions according to the timetable / deadline in line with the Directorates or other as required.
- Undertake data quality and reasonable checks on all reports / outgoings at the point of preparation/production - triangulating with other reports, checking with previous reports to ensuring parity of numbers, investigation large swings or abnormal values and reporting findings to the Senior Information Analyst for raising with Operations Team, taking corrective action at source.
- Raise any non-submission issues with the Senior Information Analyst (and Corporate Senior Information Analyst)
- Collating data to populate the Finance and Performance Executive (FPE) packs.
- Prepares and produces reports for the Foundation Group Board (FGB) Deep Dives.
- Ensure Data Quality is maximised throughout all information shared
- Support the Senior Information Analyst with report streamlining, effective reporting, report visualisation, Power BI.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Prepare and produce all national, local and internal report / submissions according to the timetable / deadline in line with the Directorates or other as required.
- Undertake data quality and reasonable checks on all reports / outgoings at the point of preparation/production - triangulating with other reports, checking with previous reports to ensuring parity of numbers, investigation large swings or abnormal values and reporting findings to the Senior Information Analyst for raising with Operations Team, taking corrective action at source.
- Raise any non-submission issues with the Senior Information Analyst (and Corporate Senior Information Analyst)
- Collating data to populate the Finance and Performance Executive (FPE) packs.
- Prepares and produces reports for the Foundation Group Board (FGB) Deep Dives.
- Ensure Data Quality is maximised throughout all information shared
- Support the Senior Information Analyst with report streamlining, effective reporting, report visualisation, Power BI.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- To process commissioning data sets, statutory returns, and standard reports.
- To investigate data quality issues.
- To deal with enquiries and take appropriate action.
- To discuss complex information requests and translate them into reporting requirements.
- To ensure reporting is clear, concise and well presented so that the audience understands the message.
- To liaise with other members of the department to ensure daily business outcomes are achieved.
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- To receive informal training through mentorship and shadowing to learn new skills, increase knowledge and expand job portfolio.
- To ensure a constant updating of skills including updating protocols and training.
- To understand patient and information flows.
- To understand operational issues in the Trust and external stakeholder bodies
Desirable
- To have good computer skills particularly with Microsoft Office products such as Access and Excel; knowledge of other applications such as SQL Server, and patient information systems
- To have knowledge of the NHS data dictionary and data definitions and how to apply them.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- To ensure information is processed and analysed within designated timescales.
- To be methodical and pay attention to detail to ensure accuracy of any information.
- To have good analytical and problem solving skills to ensure information requests are produced from appropriate sources.
- To identify and amend data errors as appropriate on the Trust's data repositories.
- To apply national or local data definitions when collecting or reporting information to ensure consistency.
Desirable
- To apply judgment when identifying and checking patient records for incorrect data on PAS to improve data quality.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- To receive informal training through mentorship and shadowing to learn new skills, increase knowledge and expand job portfolio.
- To ensure a constant updating of skills including updating protocols and training.
- To understand patient and information flows.
- To understand operational issues in the Trust and external stakeholder bodies
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective open communication
- Excellence and safety in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confidence
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- To process commissioning data sets, statutory returns, and standard reports.
- To investigate data quality issues.
- To deal with enquiries and take appropriate action.
- To discuss complex information requests and translate them into reporting requirements.
- To ensure reporting is clear, concise and well presented so that the audience understands the message.
- To liaise with other members of the department to ensure daily business outcomes are achieved.
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- To receive informal training through mentorship and shadowing to learn new skills, increase knowledge and expand job portfolio.
- To ensure a constant updating of skills including updating protocols and training.
- To understand patient and information flows.
- To understand operational issues in the Trust and external stakeholder bodies
Desirable
- To have good computer skills particularly with Microsoft Office products such as Access and Excel; knowledge of other applications such as SQL Server, and patient information systems
- To have knowledge of the NHS data dictionary and data definitions and how to apply them.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- To ensure information is processed and analysed within designated timescales.
- To be methodical and pay attention to detail to ensure accuracy of any information.
- To have good analytical and problem solving skills to ensure information requests are produced from appropriate sources.
- To identify and amend data errors as appropriate on the Trust's data repositories.
- To apply national or local data definitions when collecting or reporting information to ensure consistency.
Desirable
- To apply judgment when identifying and checking patient records for incorrect data on PAS to improve data quality.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- To receive informal training through mentorship and shadowing to learn new skills, increase knowledge and expand job portfolio.
- To ensure a constant updating of skills including updating protocols and training.
- To understand patient and information flows.
- To understand operational issues in the Trust and external stakeholder bodies
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective open communication
- Excellence and safety in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confidence
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.
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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
