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We are currently looking for an enthusiastic individual who has an interest in clinical data to join the Cardiothoracic Services Data Team, as an Information Analyst. The key purpose of the role is to provide information and data management services to Cardiothoracic Services Directorate within Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and lead on various audits to the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR).

• Interview Date: 4 July 2023
• 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.

To be successful in the role you will be expected to work with clinical teams to coordinate the collection of clinical and operational data within various databases. You will be responsible for ensuring data completeness and accuracy is maintained by regularly initiating and supervising audits so that accuracy of the recorded data is of the highest quality.

As a senior member of the team you will provide professional and technical support to the wider team and on occasion, identify specific tasks that require specialist input to maintain complete and contemporaneous information within key datasets.

In the role, you will communicate with a wide range of stakeholders from across the Trust. You will develop and maintain good working relationships with others to ensure information is effectively sourced from various areas and accurately transferred between locations. However, in addition to coordinating dataflows, you will build subject matter expertise about the information being collected. As such, you will act as a key stakeholder in undertaking critical analysis and promulgating key findings to senior management and clinical staff across the organisation.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

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, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

As a data team we are continuously looking to develop 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 you will be an advocate for driving innovation and continuously improving ways of working across the team.

Whilst the Cardiothoracic Services Directorate is predominantly based at the Freeman Hospital, we support a culture of flexible working, including multi-site working. This means that the successful candidate must be proficient in time-management, adaptable to change at short notice and be resourceful to ensure the team’s key objectives are positively achieved.

Job Purpose

• The post holder will act as a member of the multidisciplinary team and be responsible for evaluating and interpreting clinical care information and extracting data required for MINAP or any of the other databases within the Cardiothoracic Directorate. This will involve assessment, interpretation and then reporting of clinical data in case notes.
• MINAP is one of a number of national databases which are maintained to provide accurate information about the Trust’s performance in relation to patients with heart disease. This is then used to inform the Care Quality Commission about performance

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

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.