Public Health Intelligence Specialist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an innovative and enthusiastic Public Health Intelligence Specialist to join the Northumbria Public Health Team on a fixed term / secondment contract.

The Public Health Team in Northumbria work closely with senior leaders across the Trust and across the public health wider system to tackle health inequalities for our Trust population. The post holder will have the analytical skills and knowledge to make effective use of available health and care data and provide data analysis and interpretation which improves our understanding of the needs of the population within the Trusts catchment area; and work in partnership internally and with other organisations to ensure we influence the way data and information is used in policy and strategy development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will act as an expert resource to the Trusts Public Health team working collaboratively across the Trust and specifically with the Trust's Information Services Team.

They will be required to collect, analyse, interpret and present varied and complex public health related intelligence / data to a wide range of audiences. Alongside this they will manage, maintain and develop information and performance monitoring systems and take a key role in improving public health data quality and data integrity; providing specialist support to Consultant(s) in Public Health, public health managers across the Trust, and the Health Inequalities Programme Board (HIPB).

The post holder will be required to undertake direct line management for the Trusts public health analytical team, including allocation of work priorities and their professional development. The post holder will require excellent communication and will be required to liaise with key personnel within the Trust, working with the project leads to develop the project service and linking in all key interdependent Trust and external services.

The ability to be flexible & organised in the workplace with a passion for delivering a quality and successful service is essential. We are looking for a committed, enthusiastic, innovative and flexible individual with the ability to work in a potentially demanding and diverse workflow and to work on his/her own initiative.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before