Assistant Data Analyst (Sponsorship Available) at NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

About NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health and social care for a population of 1.4m people.

Working through its 4 places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board is building on the strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with local communities to deliver four key aims:

• Improving outcomes in population health and healthcare

• Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access

• Enhancing productivity and value for money

• Helping the NHS support broader social and economic development

The organisation’s near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South Yorkshire through the values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative.

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board works as a key partner with the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care services that meet the needs of the local population.

In total there are 186 GP practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working across seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000 voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations.

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board works alongside all these colleagues through local councils, VCSE partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider determinants of health in South Yorkshire.

South Yorkshire ICB is a Disability Confident Employer.

Job Summary

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board is looking to recruit an Assistant Data Analyst as part of its data and analytics team.

This role would suit an individual wanting to develop new skills with a view to developing a career within Data & Insights, including the opportunity to dovetail this role with an appropriate apprenticeship.

The role will give the opportunity to develop a wide knowledge in NHS datasets and technical tools, across a range of areas.

It will also include working with Partners across different organisations including Public Health, Secondary care, Primary Care and Community and many more working to improve the lives and health of the people of South Yorkshire.

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board is looking for a proactive individual willing to learn and develop their skills and knowledge in health care and engage in a diverse role where producing reports and analysis is key to ensure the organisation is making good data driven decisions.

The data and analytics team is a values-based team and promotes a culture of openness and learning where all contribute to how the team works and how best to meet the needs of colleagues and stakeholders.

The role is 37.5 hours and will involve a hybrid working model with time spent at the Eyre Street site in Sheffield, Home working and may include travel to sites across South Yorkshire in Barnsley, Rotherham, and Doncaster or external meetings at partner sites.

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board is unable to provide sponsorship for this role.

Job Details

• Employer: NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

• Job Title: Assistant Data Analyst

• Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year

• Job Type: Full-time

• Closing Date: 21 October 2026

Main Duties of the Job

The key objectives of the post are:

• Collate, validate, analyse and present patient activity and information to support performance management, commissioning and Senior Managers.

• Be responsible for maintaining, owning and developing reports, dashboards and analysis automating where appropriate and ensuring products are accurate, fit for purpose and innovative.

• Bring to the attention of senior managers any anomalies in information, ideas for new ways of working and details of any potential blockers to tasks.

• Represent the department at internal and external meetings regarding the information and data needs of the organisation.

• Be responsible for ensuring the quality of data in the work produced and ensuring compliance with IG rules.

This is a very varied role and as a team everyone pitches in to do what’s needed.

The post holder will be doing various levels of tasks, from admin support to the team, using the Dev Ops system to track work and ensure incoming requests are logged on the system to ensure flow through, working with data centre colleagues to assisting with onboarding new data sets.

Job Description and Responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential:

• Good working knowledge and experience in the effective use of spreadsheets and databases including use of data interrogation tools and wider functionality such as formulae.

• Knowledge of how to interpret data.

• Knowledge of database structures and how to interrogate databases.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of process design and code development acquired through degree level or equivalent qualification/experience.

• Able to exhibit knowledge of relevant legislation when working with public data such as the Data Protection Act.

• Knowledge of industry-standard data management or analysis software, such as MS SQL, SAS, Tableau, R or PowerBI.

• Working knowledge of agile methodologies or relevant experience or training.

• Understanding of data security & information governance.

• Knowledge of testing and assurance processes; including, development of tests; an understanding of reference data management and its application.

• Knowledge of common health and care datasets.

Qualifications

Essential:

– NVQ Level 3 or equivalent, preferably in an IT or numerate related subject or equivalent qualification/experience.

Experience

Essential:

• Experience of presenting and explaining through written and verbal communication in a style that translates technical detail into user friendly, accessible plain English that can be understood by all audiences.

• Experience of using of analytical tools and techniques to derive insights from large datasets.

Desirable:

• Experience of having discussions with customers (internal and external) to clarify or define customer specifications.

• Qualified in a statistical discipline or have experience of applying statistical model to complex problems.

Skills and Competencies

Essential:

• Highly numerate, can easily interpret the quality of data through proactive identification of poor data quality and propose appropriate solutions.

• Can analyse and interpret raw data, create appropriate measures of performance, value-added analysis/statistics and summarise the results in high-quality visualisations and reports.

Desirable:

– Experience of building data assets and loading data into databases.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

How to Apply

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