Senior Digital Analyst
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity to support nationally commissioned specialist pain services
We are seeking a motivated and detail‑oriented
Senior Information Analyst (Band 5) to join the nationally commissioned
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and Complex Cancer Late Effects Rehabilitation Service (CCLERS) at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a key role supporting specialist clinical services through high‑quality data, analytics, reporting and digital solutions that directly inform patient care, service delivery, national reporting and commissioning.
About The Role
As Senior Information Analyst, you will play a central role in:
- Delivering accurate, timely and high‑quality analysis and reporting of complex clinical and patient‑reported outcome data
- Supporting the development, maintenance and improvement of specialist clinical databases
- Contributing to the transformation of Complex Pain Outcomes data into a Secure Data Environment
- Acting as a liaison between clinical teams, patient representatives, database and IT colleagues to support digital innovation
You will work closely with clinicians, patients, service leads and information specialists, supporting national services that influence care and outcomes across England.
This role requires excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple workstreams independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
Collate, validate, analyse and present complex clinical and patient‑reported data
- Maintain and develop specialist pain databases, ensuring GDPR and information governance compliance
- Produce reports for service leads, national commissioning, service evaluation and audit
- Support development and testing of digital tools, forms and data capture systems (including InHealthcare, EPR and Office 365 platforms)
- Liaise with clinicians and patient representatives to improve system usability and data quality
- Provide training and user support to staff (1:1 and group, in person and remote)
- Assist with data sharing agreements, patient communications, education events and service reporting
Working for our organisation
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
We are creating a health and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.
By working together, we make a real difference for our patients, each other, and our community. Every role matters in delivering the exceptional, person‑centred care we’re proud of.
We’re committed to a compassionate, inclusive culture where kindness is championed, differences are valued, and diversity makes us stronger.
We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential. We prioritise staff wellbeing – and yes, we even have a pool!
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.
Person specification
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Team player with demonstrable good verbal and written communication skills and the confidence and ability to liaise & negotiate work outputs and timescales with different members of staff.
- Experience of managing large datasets and using statistics to analyse and present data in different formats eg tables and graph. In depth knowledge & experience of relational databases and Excel, including using queries for retrieval of information, and general principles to ensure accurate recording of large data sets.
- Experience of project management
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching IT/database information to other staff.
- Design of relational multi stranded databases, writing of queries, design of user-friendly data input forms / questionnaires.
- Experience of education event management
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- Good standard of education, knowledge of data warehousing in a range areas, as shown by a degree or relevant experience
Desirable criteria
- European Computer Driving License
Please note - Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered unless an alternative right to work solution can be provided. Candidates requiring sponsorship (or will need sponsorship at the end of a current visa e.g. those with graduate visa's) should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying: Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
- Senior Information Analyst (PDF, 340.7KB)
- Join the RUH (PDF, 1.3MB)
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Julie Russell Job title Head of Service for CRPS and CCLERS Email address ***email_hidden*** Telephone number 07786864335 Additional information
