Senior Datix Analyst: Sponsorship Available

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust as a Senior Datix Analyst in our Quality Governance Team.

This pivotal role will place you at the heart of our patient safety and governance work, ensuring our incident and risk management system (DatixWeb) is used to its fullest potential. You will be the Trust’s in-house Datix expert, supporting staff across all Divisions and satellite sites, providing high-quality training, and ensuring the accuracy of our data so it drives learning, improvement, and safer care.

As well as managing and supporting the Datix Analyst, you will play a key role in our upcoming transition to a new incident management system and in enhancing our integration with the national Learning from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service. Your work will help turn accurate data into meaningful insights, trends, and actions that make a real difference.

 

Main duties of the job

The Senior Datix Analyst will be the Trust’s in-house expert for Datix, ensuring staff are trained, supported, and confident in its use. The post holder will ensure accurate data entry, enabling reliable statistical reporting and helping the Trust maximise the system’s potential.

The role will lead the transition to the Trust’s next incident management system, following the current tender process, advising on applicability, readiness, and requirements for a smooth and successful implementation.

The Trust has already integrated Datix with the national LFPSE reporting system. The Senior Datix Analyst will be pivotal in enhancing this integration, ensuring it continues to meet organisational needs, and adopting future updates as the national system evolves.

Working as part of the Quality Governance & Risk Team, the post holder will collaborate with Divisions across the Trust and with satellite sites in the local health community, delivering essential data that accurately reflects the Trust’s risk profile.

The role also includes day-to-day system administration and the supervision and development of the Datix Analyst.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in a relevant field
  • Evidence of ongoing professional development relevant to the role

Desirable

  • Formal training in data analysis, business intelligence, or information management
  • Training qualification or recognised experience in designing and delivering training

Knowledge

Essential

  • Significant experience in administering and optimising Datix or another incident management system
  • Experience of leading system upgrades or migrations, including change management
  • Knowledge of NHS governance, patient safety reporting, and LFPSE requirements
  • Experience in developing reports, dashboards, and data visualisations
  • Knowledge of national patient safety policy and statutory reporting obligations

Desirable

  • Previous experience in a healthcare or NHS setting

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.

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).

Closing Date: 21 October 2025

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