Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT

Data Analyst

The closing date is 22 October 2025

Job summary

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit a Data analysist to work within the Nursing and Professions Department.

Working across the Nursing and Professions Directorate the role will involve data collection and monitoring, including the extraction of data from across various systems and sources to support reporting as required. The postholder will have excellent analytical, organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise a busy workload in a dynamic, fast-paced office environment.

Main duties of the job

The role will involve exporting, collating and manipulating large amounts of data from a wide range of sources as well as the initial analysis and presentation of accurate data in an appropriate format that is understandable to its audience.

The post holder will assist with the production of standard information reports and clinical data returns across the directorate, as and when required, and will distribute these to the appropriate audience. They will contribute to the development of dashboards or tools that enable a better understanding of data to support decision-making and service monitoring.

The postholder will run daily, weekly and monthly reports to support business needs of the Professions and Quality directorate. They will run background reports and produce data packs for weekly or monthly meetings, to support ongoing quality surveillance activity and performance monitoring within the Professions and Quality Directorate.

About us

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Details

Date posted

08 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

437-7493616

Job locations

Knowsley Building

Bury New Road

Prestwich

M25 3BL


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

  • Pay Enhancements
  • 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
  • Excellent pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Salary sacrifice car scheme
  • Wellbeing programme
  • Blue Light Card Discounts
  • fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)

The successful candidate would be expected to be office based a minimum 3 days per week.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

  • Pay Enhancements
  • 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
  • Excellent pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Salary sacrifice car scheme
  • Wellbeing programme
  • Blue Light Card Discounts
  • fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)

The successful candidate would be expected to be office based a minimum 3 days per week.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to diploma level or equivalent by experience

Desirable

  • Project Management Qualification.

Experience

Essential

  • Work experience in an information related role in an NHS organisation.
  • Experience of developing and improving data collection and reporting systems.
  • Extensive experience and knowledge of working with Microsoft Office packages including excel, access, word, PowerPoint.
  • Experience of using Data manipulation and analysis using advanced excel skills including combining data from multiple sources; v:lookups; pivots; summaries and graphs

Desirable

  • Experience of improvement orientated data reporting.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge and understanding of business information needs and reporting.
  • Knowledge of data quality issues and the approaches taken to improve quality.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to diploma level or equivalent by experience

Desirable

  • Project Management Qualification.

Experience

Essential

  • Work experience in an information related role in an NHS organisation.
  • Experience of developing and improving data collection and reporting systems.
  • Extensive experience and knowledge of working with Microsoft Office packages including excel, access, word, PowerPoint.
  • Experience of using Data manipulation and analysis using advanced excel skills including combining data from multiple sources; v:lookups; pivots; summaries and graphs

Desirable

  • Experience of improvement orientated data reporting.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge and understanding of business information needs and reporting.
  • Knowledge of data quality issues and the approaches taken to improve quality.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT

Address

Knowsley Building

Bury New Road

Prestwich

M25 3BL


Employer's website

https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT

Address

Knowsley Building

Bury New Road

Prestwich

M25 3BL


Employer's website

https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Compliance Manager

Rachel Wedge

rachel.wedge@gmmh.nhs.uk

01613582531

Details

Date posted

08 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

437-7493616

Job locations

Knowsley Building

Bury New Road

Prestwich

M25 3BL


Supporting documents

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