Job summary
- Main area
- Patient Experience
- Grade
- AfC Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-AGB-EMF19103-B6
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £40,617 - £48,778 per annum pro rata - inclues high cost area supplements (HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Datix Analyst
AfC Band 6
Job overview
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.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role supports the Trust’s quality improvement and governance agenda by ensuring the Datix system is effectively managed, optimised, and used to improve safety, learning, and performance.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in a relevant field
- Evidence of ongoing professional development relevant to the role
Desirable criteria
- Formal training in data analysis, business intelligence, or information management
- Training qualification or recognised experience in designing and delivering training
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Previous experience in a healthcare or NHS setting
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Simon Pawlin
- Job title
- Head of Patient Safety & Quality
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01483 571122
- Additional information
For any queries related to this post please reach out to Simon Pawlin on 01 483 571122 ext 3335
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