Junior Information Analyst | South West London and St George\'s Mental Health NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Trust's Performance and Information Team for a Junior Information Analyst to play a key role in supporting the organisation's data analytics and reporting functions. Working within the Performance and Information team, the post holder is responsible for supporting the development of dashboards, visualisations, and statutory returns to enable evidence-based decision-making across clinical and managerial teams. This role sits within a collaborative team environment, and we are seeking an individual who values teamwork and actively contributes to shared goals.

The role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate complex concepts to non-technical audiences. It offers an opportunity to contribute to a high-quality informatics service that underpins patient care and organisational performance. If you are passionate about data and eager to drive meaningful change, we encourage you to apply.

Please note this role does not offer sponsorship. This role will have an assessment as part of the interview process to help fully assess candidates' suitability for the post, which takes place in the form of an interactive presentation to senior stakeholders at Trust premises (on-site), with the topic and exercise given on the day, and cannot be done remotely.

In this role, you will take ownership of ensuring the timely submission of mandatory external returns and internal reports. You will work with a variety of data tools, including SQL, Tableau, and SSRS, so we are seeking someone who learns quickly and enjoys solving complex logic challenges. This is an excellent opportunity to deepen your knowledge of data and analytics while collaborating with both clinical and non-clinical colleagues across the Trust. Your work will help produce clean, actionable insights for clinicians, managers, and other stakeholders—all within a supportive and collaborative team environment.

Flexible working: We are proud to offer agile and flexible working opportunities as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. The team operates a hybrid working arrangement whereby we utilise home working alongside mandatory office days each week.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti-racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do. We offer flexible working, career development, and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and produce external mandatory returns to an agreed timetable.
• Support on the development of data quality monitoring tools and techniques to support the accurate reporting of all internal and external reports.
• Develop data feeds into the Data Warehouse and dashboards/visualisations for use by relevant Trust staff using Tableau software.
• Contribute to the provision of a high-quality information analysis service for all areas within the Trust interpreting and analysing data, providing clear, accurate and timely reports to managers, clinicians and other Trust staff.
• Undertake work with senior clinicians and managers to support the development of strategic plans for the provision and development of information analysis within directorates.
• Develop processes for converting extracted data into national and locally defined data sets.
• Provide timely support to senior colleagues within the Information Management team in fulfilling data requests.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of data outputs by validating queries and logic against trusted sources (e.g., dashboards, reference datasets). Take ownership of initial checks and apply sound judgment to identify when issues require escalation to senior team members for further review.
• Attend and contribute to in-person team meetings to facilitate team knowledge sharing and foster individual professional development.
• Assist senior Information Management colleagues to interpret and action new statutory information requirements.
• Identify data quality issues and implement data management or reporting solutions.
• Attend data quality and performance review meetings with service managers providing expert advice on data standards and information issues.

Qualifications and skills:

• Experience with SQL, Tableau, and SSRS; ability to learn quickly and enjoy solving complex logic challenges.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to communicate complex concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to contribute to a high-quality informatics service and to work with clinical and non-clinical colleagues.

Working arrangements: Flexible working and hybrid arrangement with home working alongside mandatory office days each week.