Job summary
Job Title: Senior Data Quality Officer
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £25,147-£27,596 per annum
Please note if you commence in post prior to October 2024, you will be paid in line with 2023/2024 agenda for change pay scales.
Closing Date: 4th October 2024
Interview Date: 18th October 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Main duties of the job
To support the Data Quality Team in ensuring data held across the Trust contains accurate and reliable information.
To contribute to the Data Quality Team in providing an efficient and high-quality service for ensuring accurate source date which constitutes a major element of the information Governance agenda.
To provide support to the Data Improvement Manager, in raising awareness across the Trust for the need for timely and accurate quality data.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Support the Trust in meeting the data requirements of clinicians, hospital managers, commissioners, and Trust Board.
Monitor and promote data quality throughout the Trust, taking steps to improve areas of concern as highlighted by Local, Regional, and National monitoring.
Develop detailed and precise Data Quality guidance documents to the specified standard for trust-wide dissemination. Including departmental policy and procedures, strategy, and standard operating procedures.
To work as part of the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme to ensure that patient related date held within the Trust is accurate and complete to enable reliable and robust reporting to support clinical andbusiness processes, statutory information, and income generation.
To adapt and improve local systems and procedures around data collection/input, audit, and analysis so that they continue to meet the needs of the teams.
Provide support to the Data Quality Improvement Manager, and stand-in for the Data Quality Improvement Manager as required.
Please note that this list is not exhaustive, for more information please find that the full details can be found in the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Support the Trust in meeting the data requirements of clinicians, hospital managers, commissioners, and Trust Board.
Monitor and promote data quality throughout the Trust, taking steps to improve areas of concern as highlighted by Local, Regional, and National monitoring.
Develop detailed and precise Data Quality guidance documents to the specified standard for trust-wide dissemination. Including departmental policy and procedures, strategy, and standard operating procedures.
To work as part of the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme to ensure that patient related date held within the Trust is accurate and complete to enable reliable and robust reporting to support clinical andbusiness processes, statutory information, and income generation.
To adapt and improve local systems and procedures around data collection/input, audit, and analysis so that they continue to meet the needs of the teams.
Provide support to the Data Quality Improvement Manager, and stand-in for the Data Quality Improvement Manager as required.
Please note that this list is not exhaustive, for more information please find that the full details can be found in the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years office experience
- Awareness of current NHS issues
- Experience of working with a wide range of staff at all levels
- Proven success at delivering against objectives and deadlines
Desirable
- Experience of PAS/EPR (Lorenzo/Cerner)
- Experience/ /involvement in Data Quality activities (e.g. validation or audit) NHS Experience
- Experience and understanding of NHS analytical tools
- Experience of data bases and the ability to extract data
- Understanding of the 18-week referral to treatment target
- Understanding of SUS processes
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- Educated to GCSE level within Maths and English
- Evidence of continuing personal development
- Willingness to undergo further training
Desirable
- NVQ level 3
- ECDL Qualification or equivalent
- Excel Qualification
- A Level Maths
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate sensitive and complex information
- Able to work in a demanding environment and achieve tight deadlines
- Change priorities as when required
- Be practical and remain calm under pressure
- Work as part of a team
- Motivate and persuade others from outside of your team
- Use own initiative
- Able to analyse data
- Ability to manipulate large datasets
- Quickly and expertly identify and investigate inconsistencies in data
- Analytical thinking and diagnostic skills
- Ability to establish new appropriate reporting processes
- Proactive in improving own skills
- Ability to organise work involving input from other people
Desirable
- Strong understanding of NHS data flows
- Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft packages
- Awareness of NHS organisations
- Understanding of the NHS performance targets
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years office experience
- Awareness of current NHS issues
- Experience of working with a wide range of staff at all levels
- Proven success at delivering against objectives and deadlines
Desirable
- Experience of PAS/EPR (Lorenzo/Cerner)
- Experience/ /involvement in Data Quality activities (e.g. validation or audit) NHS Experience
- Experience and understanding of NHS analytical tools
- Experience of data bases and the ability to extract data
- Understanding of the 18-week referral to treatment target
- Understanding of SUS processes
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- Educated to GCSE level within Maths and English
- Evidence of continuing personal development
- Willingness to undergo further training
Desirable
- NVQ level 3
- ECDL Qualification or equivalent
- Excel Qualification
- A Level Maths
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate sensitive and complex information
- Able to work in a demanding environment and achieve tight deadlines
- Change priorities as when required
- Be practical and remain calm under pressure
- Work as part of a team
- Motivate and persuade others from outside of your team
- Use own initiative
- Able to analyse data
- Ability to manipulate large datasets
- Quickly and expertly identify and investigate inconsistencies in data
- Analytical thinking and diagnostic skills
- Ability to establish new appropriate reporting processes
- Proactive in improving own skills
- Ability to organise work involving input from other people
Desirable
- Strong understanding of NHS data flows
- Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft packages
- Awareness of NHS organisations
- Understanding of the NHS performance targets
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
