Applications Analyst Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Applications Analyst Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Employer:

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Salford, M50 1SY

Pay:

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

15/03/2026

About this job

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self motivated, innovative Band 5 Applications Analyst to join our team, who will maintain and develop the Trust's clinical applications.

You will be working predominantly within the Diagnostics workstream of the Enterprise and Clinical Applications Team.

You will be configuring pathology, radiology, investigations and referral orders/results in the Trust's clinical applications, as well as analysing and interpreting current clinical workflows and designing solutions utilising the clinical system's advanced functionality.

This is a key role in the configuration of the Trust's clinical applications.

The emphasis will be to take a creative and visionary approach to the design and build of the clinical applications, using a core configuration tools (SQL, C# or SSRS skills are not required). An important aspect of the role includes the analysis and interpretation of current work flows and practices, working in partnership with clinical services.

You will be self directed, tenacious, yet able to work as a key member of a multidisciplinary team with a flexible approach.

Please note: this role is office based at Turnpike House/Clinical Sciences Building at Salford Royal Hospital with occasional requirements to visit any of the main hospital sites.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.

Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners.

We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values

• care, appreciate and inspire
• to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility.

The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction.

By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work life balance.

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading.

You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: This advert closes on Sunday 1 Mar 2026

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