Job summary
We are seeking a highly motivated and analytically skilled Patient Safety Data Analyst.
This pivotal role is central to strengthening patient safety across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire by providing high-quality data insight, intelligence, and analytical support. You will drive improvements through robust data analysis, enabling the organisation to meet key patient safety objectives and deliver an evidence-based approach to learning and quality improvement.
This role requires excellent analytical skills, strong communication abilities, and the confidence to translate complex information into clear messages that support organisational learning and safer care.
If you are passionate about using data to drive meaningful improvement, thrive in a dynamic environment, and are committed to supporting the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care, we would welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
This pivotal role will actively drive measurable improvements in patient safety by harnessing advanced data analytics to inform strategic decision-making, underpin effective incident responses, and rigorously evaluate the impact of safety interventions.
As an integral member of our team, you will play a central part in the implementation, monitoring, and continual enhancement of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). You will ensure that our organisation's approach to patient safety remains robust, evidence-based, and rooted in a culture of ongoing learning and quality improvement.
A key responsibility will be the comprehensive monitoring, in-depth analysis, and clear evidencing of progress in meeting essential clinical compliance targets, particularly in relation to sepsis, Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), and Venous Thromboembolism (VTE).
The role demands proactive identification of trends and risks, provision of actionable insights to multidisciplinary stakeholders, and a commitment to championing best practice in data governance and patient safety across the organisation
About us
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close adverts once we have received sufficient applications
University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group is made up of Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and Kettering General NHS Foundation Trust. Both hospitals are currently separate hospitals/employers with a joint hospital board and leadership. We share a group executive team leading on a shared vision, mission, priorities, strategies and Dedicated to Excellence Values.
Our Excellence Values
- Compassion
- Accountability
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.
We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Patient Safety Data Analyst plays a key role in supporting the delivery of safe, highquality care across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). The post holder is responsible for validating, analysing and presenting patient safety data to support effective decisionmaking, learning, and improvement.
Main Responsibilities
- Systematically collect, clean, validate, and manage data on patient safety incidents, near misses, adverse events, compliance with sepsis, AKI, and VTE targets, and other key safety indicators from multiple internal and external sources.
- Perform advanced statistical analyses and data modelling to uncover trends, identify emerging risks, and support the prioritisation of safety improvements in alignment with PSIRF principles and compliance targets.
- Produce insightful dashboards, visualisations, and regular reports that clearly communicate findings, recommendations, and learning opportunities tomultidisciplinary stakeholders, including clinicians, managers, and governance teams, specifically highlighting progress on sepsis, AKI, and VTE compliance.
- Work in partnership with the Patient Safety Team, clinical leads, and incident investigators to provide timely and robust data support throughout the PSIRF response cycle, including the identification, investigation, and learning from patient safety incidents and compliance breaches.
- Enable continuous monitoring and evaluation of implemented safety actions, using data to measure effectiveness and inform ongoing quality improvement efforts, especially in relation to sepsis, AKI, and VTE performance.
- Support thematic reviews and deep-dives into patient safety issues, providing analytical expertise and ensuring alignment with PSIRFs learning and improvement ethos.
- Champion the best practices for data governance, data protection, and confidentiality, ensuring all data analysis activities comply with relevant laws, regulations, and organisational standards.
- Drive the development and refinement of data collection tools, methodologies, and systems to increase the reliability, timeliness, and relevance of patient safety data, including targeted audits and compliance reviews for sepsis, AKI, and VTE.
- Act as a subject matter expert for data analytics within the PSIRF framework, contributing to the development of local patient safety learning responses and facilitating organisation-wide understanding of data insights.
- Enables early identification of patterns and risks, supporting timely and targeted interventions.
- Provide evidence for prioritising safety initiatives and resource allocation based on actual patient safety data.
- Support effective incident response, in-depth investigations, and learning cycles by supplying accurate and relevant data throughout the PSIRF process.
- Measure the impact of safety interventions and compliance initiatives, ensuring continuous improvement and organisational learning, especially around sepsis, AKI, and VTE.
- Facilitate transparent communication and shared learning across the organisation, enhancing the safety culture.
- Work within the Trust guidelines regarding record keeping, data collection, safeguarding, confidentiality and health & safety.
- Contribute to reports as required within UHN e.g. Quality Dashboards and performance reports across UHN.
- Assess the robustness of data and ensure data analysis for projects and programmes is sufficient, robust and reliable.
- Perform complex analyses on data relevant to projects and programmes, including presenting data in a variety of formats, bar charts, statistical process control charts.
- Synthesise multiple sources to communicate on highly complex issues.
- Responsible for tracking data, including risks and issues, continuously to quickly resolve failures to meet project requirements and act accordingly to inform team members as appropriate.
- Analyse data to provide evidence for projects and programmes.
- Able to identify data requirements, define analysis requirements, design data gathering and desired outputs.
- Travel between the Northampton and Kettering Hospital sites and other sites where required.
For Full details and responsibilities of the role, please see attached job description and person specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Patient Safety Data Analyst plays a key role in supporting the delivery of safe, highquality care across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). The post holder is responsible for validating, analysing and presenting patient safety data to support effective decisionmaking, learning, and improvement.
Main Responsibilities
- Systematically collect, clean, validate, and manage data on patient safety incidents, near misses, adverse events, compliance with sepsis, AKI, and VTE targets, and other key safety indicators from multiple internal and external sources.
- Perform advanced statistical analyses and data modelling to uncover trends, identify emerging risks, and support the prioritisation of safety improvements in alignment with PSIRF principles and compliance targets.
- Produce insightful dashboards, visualisations, and regular reports that clearly communicate findings, recommendations, and learning opportunities tomultidisciplinary stakeholders, including clinicians, managers, and governance teams, specifically highlighting progress on sepsis, AKI, and VTE compliance.
- Work in partnership with the Patient Safety Team, clinical leads, and incident investigators to provide timely and robust data support throughout the PSIRF response cycle, including the identification, investigation, and learning from patient safety incidents and compliance breaches.
- Enable continuous monitoring and evaluation of implemented safety actions, using data to measure effectiveness and inform ongoing quality improvement efforts, especially in relation to sepsis, AKI, and VTE performance.
- Support thematic reviews and deep-dives into patient safety issues, providing analytical expertise and ensuring alignment with PSIRFs learning and improvement ethos.
- Champion the best practices for data governance, data protection, and confidentiality, ensuring all data analysis activities comply with relevant laws, regulations, and organisational standards.
- Drive the development and refinement of data collection tools, methodologies, and systems to increase the reliability, timeliness, and relevance of patient safety data, including targeted audits and compliance reviews for sepsis, AKI, and VTE.
- Act as a subject matter expert for data analytics within the PSIRF framework, contributing to the development of local patient safety learning responses and facilitating organisation-wide understanding of data insights.
- Enables early identification of patterns and risks, supporting timely and targeted interventions.
- Provide evidence for prioritising safety initiatives and resource allocation based on actual patient safety data.
- Support effective incident response, in-depth investigations, and learning cycles by supplying accurate and relevant data throughout the PSIRF process.
- Measure the impact of safety interventions and compliance initiatives, ensuring continuous improvement and organisational learning, especially around sepsis, AKI, and VTE.
- Facilitate transparent communication and shared learning across the organisation, enhancing the safety culture.
- Work within the Trust guidelines regarding record keeping, data collection, safeguarding, confidentiality and health & safety.
- Contribute to reports as required within UHN e.g. Quality Dashboards and performance reports across UHN.
- Assess the robustness of data and ensure data analysis for projects and programmes is sufficient, robust and reliable.
- Perform complex analyses on data relevant to projects and programmes, including presenting data in a variety of formats, bar charts, statistical process control charts.
- Synthesise multiple sources to communicate on highly complex issues.
- Responsible for tracking data, including risks and issues, continuously to quickly resolve failures to meet project requirements and act accordingly to inform team members as appropriate.
- Analyse data to provide evidence for projects and programmes.
- Able to identify data requirements, define analysis requirements, design data gathering and desired outputs.
- Travel between the Northampton and Kettering Hospital sites and other sites where required.
For Full details and responsibilities of the role, please see attached job description and person specification
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Data analyst qualification or equivalent experience
- Information Technology qualification
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the post to Postgraduate level of equivalent
- Involvement in project management
Desirable
- Quality Improvement method utilised identified/ qualification
- Attained/ working towards a Project Management qualification (e.g., PRINCE2)
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Strong understanding of patient safety concepts, quality improvement methodologies, and the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) or similar frameworks.
- Technical expertise in data extraction and analysis such as Access, Excel, Power BI, Business Objects, SQL, Qlikview
- Detailed analysis and validation of various types of data to inform assessment of performance and to identify opportunities for improvement
- Experience of understanding data to support the writing of reports or briefing papers
- Ability to manage a diverse workload and to meet set deadlines
Desirable
- Experience in NHS information and data analysis environment
- Experience supporting investigations, root cause analysis, thematic reviews, and compliance audits in a healthcare setting.
- Knowledge of NHS targets and performance indicators
- Demonstrated ability to develop workforce KPI dashboards from electronic staffing systems
Skills
Essential
- Proactive, creative and flexible approach, able to work on own initiative and take responsibility for delegated areas of responsibility
- Ability to analyse data, draw conclusions and provide recommendations.
- Good analytical report writing and presentation skills able to manipulate data from a variety of sources and present in the most appropriate format (map, chart, table, graph etc.)
- Ability to work co-operatively with both clinical and non-clinical staff including other management teams within the Trust and to develop effective working relationships within the Clinical Management Groups.
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to motivate and engage individuals and teams.
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience working with SPC (Statistical Process Control) and other statistical skills analysis tools.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Data analyst qualification or equivalent experience
- Information Technology qualification
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the post to Postgraduate level of equivalent
- Involvement in project management
Desirable
- Quality Improvement method utilised identified/ qualification
- Attained/ working towards a Project Management qualification (e.g., PRINCE2)
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Strong understanding of patient safety concepts, quality improvement methodologies, and the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) or similar frameworks.
- Technical expertise in data extraction and analysis such as Access, Excel, Power BI, Business Objects, SQL, Qlikview
- Detailed analysis and validation of various types of data to inform assessment of performance and to identify opportunities for improvement
- Experience of understanding data to support the writing of reports or briefing papers
- Ability to manage a diverse workload and to meet set deadlines
Desirable
- Experience in NHS information and data analysis environment
- Experience supporting investigations, root cause analysis, thematic reviews, and compliance audits in a healthcare setting.
- Knowledge of NHS targets and performance indicators
- Demonstrated ability to develop workforce KPI dashboards from electronic staffing systems
Skills
Essential
- Proactive, creative and flexible approach, able to work on own initiative and take responsibility for delegated areas of responsibility
- Ability to analyse data, draw conclusions and provide recommendations.
- Good analytical report writing and presentation skills able to manipulate data from a variety of sources and present in the most appropriate format (map, chart, table, graph etc.)
- Ability to work co-operatively with both clinical and non-clinical staff including other management teams within the Trust and to develop effective working relationships within the Clinical Management Groups.
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to motivate and engage individuals and teams.
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience working with SPC (Statistical Process Control) and other statistical skills analysis tools.
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).
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