Clinical Effectiveness Analyst Job Blackburn area,England UK,Healthcare

Clinical Effectiveness Analyst

NHS AfC:
Band 5

Main area
Clinical Audit & Effectiveness

Grade
NHS AfC:
Band 5

Contract
Permanent:
None

Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, flexible between 7:00am and 6:00pm)

Job
435-C009-26

Site
Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital

Town
Blackburn

Salary
£31,049 - £37,796 None

Salary period
Yearly

Closing
17/02/2026 23:59

At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.

Job overview

The Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Team plays a key role in supporting the organisations statutory requirements for participation in national clinical audit activity as identified with the NHS England Quality Accounts list, including statutory and mandatory audits, non-mandatory audits (advised to participate), confidential enquiries, and registries. Alongside the provision of a local forward measurement plan and registration of ad-hoc activities to support governance requirements to support learning, inform on assurance and compliance with best practice standards and to support continuous improvement in patient care, where indicated.

The Clinical Effectiveness Analyst role will undertake with the support of clinical leads various designated measurement projects required to demonstrate compliance with best practice standards and ensure SMART action plans are aligned to support and evidence improvement. A key requirement of this role will be to work to reduce the manual data collection
burden of the team by supporting the development and implementation of automation of data capture and reporting where possible.

Main duties of the job

To project manage, to develop and undertake local measurement activities to support organisational requirements

To work directly with clinical leads and multidisciplinary teams to plan, review, implement and streamline new and existing measurement processes and where possible work with both clinical teams and Data & Digital services to establish IT solutions for automated of data extraction and reporting directly from the EPR to reduce the manual data collection burden

To report audit outcomes & findings into appropriate clinical forums to ensure learning is captured, assurance gained and/or recommendations for improvement agreed with leads and timescales, and SMART actions monitored through to implementation

To develop and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) linked to designated activities, to ensure alignment best practice, updating systems and process where changes occur

To provide advice, guidance, training and support to team colleagues and clinical services on own role and responsibilities, enabling healthcare professionals and others with the aim of promoting evidence-based practice and ultimately improving the quality & outcomes of clinical care for patients

Support the delivery of a prioritised Trust Clinical Audit Measurement Programme in relation to Trust wide activities

Support line management with team responsibilities including training, appraisals, recruitment as required.

Working for our organisation

As part of the Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Team you will be collaborating with colleagues who are responsible for supporting clinical teams with all their clinical audit and effectiveness requirements. This includes project management and oversight of key work streams, establishing and supporting data collection required to inform on compliance with standards, data analysis and report production and presentation. Activity is established annually to form the Trust Forward Measurement Plan, broken down into divisional and Trust wide audits requiring facilitation and completion.

Roles within the team include Data Coordinators for specific work streams, primarily national activity, Clinical Audit Facilitators to support national and local divisional requirements, ensuring learning and assurance is captured, plus recommendations and actions agreed and monitored. The team are continuously reviewing systems and processes and developing the Clinical Effectiveness Framework to focus
team resource on delivery of the organisational requirements and the Trust Quality Strategy. Clinical Audit & Effectiveness activity is undertaken to meet specific deadlines, either for data submission externally for national reporting or internally for local reporting on compliance with established standards.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To project manage and plan the development of systems and processes to support ongoing measurement requirements, to allow for reporting on compliance with agreed standards

To work closely with clinical leads and teams as well as Data and Digital services to establish systems to capture, extract and report on clinical data for audit…


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