Information Manager (Sponsorship Available) Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Employer: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Job Title: Information Manager
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary: £64,156 to £71,148 a year
Job Type: Full-time
Closing Date: 01 March 2026

Job Summary

This role provides the opportunity to manage an information team in one of the largest acute trusts in the country. The size and pace of our organisation makes this role achallenging, but hugely rewarding one.

The role covers Guy’s and St Thomas’ statuary and mandatory reporting- ensuring our arm’s length bodies are sighted on our trusts position. The post will also be responsible for the production of high-quality internal information flows. The successful candidate will champion data lead decision making and become a vital part of the excellent care provided by the hospital.

The role falls into the wider Health Informatics Department. This exciting department provides opportunities to work collaboratively with colleagues with different expertise, from data warehousing to data modelling. Within the department, this role is central and provides the vital bridge between data and insight.

Main Duties of the Job

Manage the trusts process for national returns and submissions in line with current National definitions, standards and ISNs
Manage & develop the trusts internal operational reporting framework for acute services
Maintain the ad-hoc request process. Ensure request are triaged, and assigned to the appropriate lead and delivered within appropriate timeframe
Provide analytical and interpretational support to operational and trust management teams, to support patient care
Management of the Information Team
Deputises for the Deputy Head of Information Delivery, where appropriate, assuming full managerial and representative roles

About Us

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for the submission of a portfolio of high priority returns and the production of internal operational and management reports.

Ensuring returns are completed within agreed timetable and sent to for appropriate sign-off
Maintain & develop return processes, including the internal quality assurance framework
Keeping abreast of all national reporting guidance and ensuring all changes to, or new reporting requirements are implemented
Support internal and external analytical requests

The post holder will support operational management, Performance and Planning and Elective Assurance teams with high quality routine and ad hoc reports, Information management and analytical expertise.

Ensuring all reports are produce and published as per the reporting timetable
Working with operational teams to create analytical reports and tools to aid data driven decision making
Developing and maintaining user guides and promotional material for reports
Management of the Acute Information delivery teams- to ensure the smooth running of external and internal reporting. Focusing on skill development of junior members of staff.

Team management of up to five analysts
Recruitment and retention for existing and any future roles within the team
Staff development and training

Create and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation, including: Senior Information Staff, Planning and performance team, Elective Assurance, Operational management teams, Information Governance & National reporting and policy teams.

Working with and creating stakeholder engagement groups for key reporting products
Representing information delivery within operational and performance meeting

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Master’s degree in informatics-related discipline, or equivalent experience within the area of information management
Graduate with high level of numeracy

Experience

Essential

Broad experience of using information derived from large and complex data sets
Experience in collection, management, reporting and presentation of waiting list and activity data

Desirable

Experience of managing staff, including staff development

Skills

Essential

Mature and confident manner capable of negotiating and influencing clinical and managerial staff
Advanced Excel skills including macros
Demonstrable aptitude for techniques of database design, management and interrogation Including the use of SQL

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.

How to Apply

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