Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a skilled Senior Information Analyst to join its dedicated team. Based at one of the UK’s leading specialist NHS Trusts, this role offers the opportunity to apply specialist knowledge of information analysis to support high-quality patient care and strategic decision-making.
Applicants must hold a relevant degree or demonstrate equivalent experience in information analysis and data interpretation. Strong teamwork skills are essential, along with the ability to translate complex data into clear insights that drive improvement and innovation across services.
Candidates who meet the Home Office requirements may be eligible for a Certificate of Sponsorship to support their application.
Bring your expertise to a Trust committed to delivering world-class care for women, children and families – and make a real difference every day. Apply now to grow your career in a collaborative, supportive NHS environment.
About the Trust
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is the first combined women’s and children’s healthcare Trust of its kind in the UK. Established in 2017, the Trust brings together specialist hospitals and mental health services to deliver world-class physical and mental healthcare for women, children, and families.
Birmingham Children’s Hospital is recognised as a leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation for excellence across multiple disciplines. Birmingham Women’s Hospital is one of only two dedicated women’s hospitals in the UK and operates the country’s busiest single-site maternity unit, delivering over 8,200 babies each year while providing a full range of maternity, gynaecological, and neonatal services.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) delivers innovative community and inpatient mental health services for children and young people aged 0–25 through collaborative partnerships.
The Trust is dedicated to advancing specialist treatments, pioneering neonatal and fetal work, and shaping the future of family-centred care. Committed to being an outstanding place to work, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust actively promotes inclusion, equality and diversity, welcoming applications from all communities.
Position: Senior Information Analyst
Salary: £37,388-£44,962 per year
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Birmingham
About the Role
Job summary
To support the Information Manager within the Contracting & Costing Department in the provision of an information and analysis service delivering accurate, timely and effectively communicated information to external and internal stakeholders. They will be a key player in ensuring that the organisation has robust activity/ performance data and effective reporting to allow it to function as an intelligence-driven organisation.
Main duties of the job
- The postholder must have a thorough understanding of the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS) and NHS contractual data.
- Ensure effective systems and procedures are in place for the collection, recording and reporting of Trust activity to commissioners.
- Develop and maintain local reporting databases, reporting systems and spreadsheet applications to support all routine contractual reporting requirements.
- Support the contract management process, working closely with the Information Manager and the Head of Contracting & Costing to minimise financial risk to the Trust.
- Provide advice on information data standards and activity reporting.
- Maintain costing/ pricing databases and feeder systems, building the correct application of NHS Costing guidance into the database to ensure consistent recording of clinical activity
- Work with the Trust’s Informatics and Directorate Teams to ensure continual improvement in the recording of the Trust’s clinical activities.
- Liaise with clinicians and operational staff to establish and maintain resource usage profiles to reflect delivery of clinical care, ensuring surgical and medical interventions are fully understood, i.e.Job/Procedure profiling.
- Provision of costing information for external benchmarking and costing policy development, cooperating with external organisations.
Person Specifications
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent relevant experience
- Practical experience of designing and developing applications and systems
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Specialist knowledge of information analysis and the use of information through degree or equivalent, plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through training and relevant experience
- Understanding of statutory and mandatory requirements, with clear knowledge of best practice
- Understanding of NHS contracting, commissioning and regulatory requirements/processes
- Database design and management, statistical analysis, data modelling and interrogation
- Extensive skillset in business intelligence software including Microsoft Power BI
- Experience of providing business intelligence, reports and dashboards
- Excellent communications skills, written and verbal
- Ability to understand and interpret customer requirements and deliver the correct level of information dependent upon the audience
- Knowledge and experience of data protection and IG and confidentiality issues within the NHS
- Thorough understanding of importance of data quality within an NHS Trust
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Specialist knowledge of NHS data dictionary standards and definitions
- Specialist knowledge in performing all health informatics processes, including data capture and manipulation, information analysis and reporting
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to provide detailed informatics and technical advice to both other specialists and non-IT or Informatics staff
- Ability to manage own workload
- Ability to use own initiative to determine the most appropriate methods to achieve expected work tasks and outcomes
- Ability to influence and interact with people at various levels
- Excellent analytical and numerical skills
- Ability to work under pressure within tight deadlines
- Ability to build positive relations within and outside the organisation, with health professionals and managers
Professional/ Specialist Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and a strong interest in informatics, analytics and programming, underpinned by significant experience and/or theoretical study
- Demonstrable skills in using SQL Server, SQL Reporting Services and MS Excel and Power BI
- Advanced analytical and interpretation skills including statistical techniques
- Advanced querying skills against large relational database management systems
- A strong working knowledge of the NHS Data Dictionary and Data Definitions
- Highly specialist detailed knowledge of data management and core NHS informatics business
- Knowledge and understanding of procedures and guidelines around NHS central returns, commissioning datasets and contract monitoring
- Ability to accurately analyse and present highly complex data to a variety of audiences
- Excellent communication and presentation skills sufficient to impart highly complex information to a wide range of audiences
Personal Skills
Essential
- Ability to work effectively with in a team
- Confident, highly motivated and able to use own initiative
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, able to seek advice from more senior management when appropriate
- Ability to resolve problems effectively
- Significant attention to detail, given the nature of the role including the development of own software and data driven applications so need advanced concentration and highly developed analytical skills with a drive for accuracy
Benefits
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
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
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Application Deadline
July 21, 2025