Job summary
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring patients referred to The Royal Marsden receive their treatment within the guidelines of the National Waiting Time targets. The post holder will make sure that patients are seen promptly following referral and treated within the appropriate timescale. This includes monitoring patients referred to other Trusts in the Network and influencing their patient pathway, via the local MDT. The post holder will also be responsible for administrative support and organisation of site-specific MDT meetings.
Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
As we often have many applicants for jobs at The Royal Marsden NHS Trust, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are short-listed for interview. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been short-listed for interview on this particular occasion.
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Main duties of the job
1.1 The postholder has responsibility for ensuring the Trust has appropriate standards, systems, processes and training in place to ensure highly quality, complete and accurate data is available to meet all analytical, research and corporate needs of the Trust.
1.2 This involves clearly establishing required data entry and classification standards and setting strategies across the organisation and to ensure that those standards can be met and sustained within available resources in the Trust.
1.3 The postholder has responsibility for designing and embedding a data quality framework to ensure appropriate monitoring and management of Trust data collection, transformation and processing against these standards. They will regularly monitor data quality and provide interpretation and summarisation of any identified issues or concerns to stakeholders, and data owners.
About us
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals - one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey - as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.
At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.
At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
2.1 To develop and maintain an active granular understanding of data collection and data flows inside the organisation, as well as existing internal and national data standards and requirements. To develop and embed local data collection and data management standards across the organisation in order to deliver high quality data to meet the organisations needs and the needs of the NHS as a whole.
2.2 To develop and embed an organisational data quality framework, that describes how data flows from input to output, and determines how the data content and quality is monitored across these data flows, with issues being flagged and acted upon. To oversee the design and scope of data quality-related workqueues in Epic and ensure appropriate specification, ownership and management of these to deliver high quality data.
2.3 To lead on the design and specification of reports that measure data quality and to ensure the appropriate readily-available information relating to data issues and current compliance against data standards. To ensure that issues are owned by the correct operational/clinical leads and that there are robust processes to identify, understand and quickly resolve issues so that quality remains high at all times.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
2.1 To develop and maintain an active granular understanding of data collection and data flows inside the organisation, as well as existing internal and national data standards and requirements. To develop and embed local data collection and data management standards across the organisation in order to deliver high quality data to meet the organisations needs and the needs of the NHS as a whole.
2.2 To develop and embed an organisational data quality framework, that describes how data flows from input to output, and determines how the data content and quality is monitored across these data flows, with issues being flagged and acted upon. To oversee the design and scope of data quality-related workqueues in Epic and ensure appropriate specification, ownership and management of these to deliver high quality data.
2.3 To lead on the design and specification of reports that measure data quality and to ensure the appropriate readily-available information relating to data issues and current compliance against data standards. To ensure that issues are owned by the correct operational/clinical leads and that there are robust processes to identify, understand and quickly resolve issues so that quality remains high at all times.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent qualification relevant to data management
- Postgraduate diploma or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience in a data management setting, preferably within the NHS
- Expert knowledge of NHS data flows, datasets and standards, including data captured as part diagnosis, treatsment and care of cancer
- Good knowledge of hospital clinical and information systems
- Experience in interpretation of data, and analysis including root cause analysis.
- Experience in using data to design and deliver service improvements
- Experience of specifying reporting and information outputs
- Experience of managing a team
- Experience in summarising data and report writing, especially explaining complex technical issues to a lay audience.
Skills Abilities/knowledge
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation and reporting writing skills
- Computer literate in Microsoft products
- Good numerical skills and ability to analyse information in a meaningful manner in order to inform service decisions
- Ability to communicate effectively and influence staff at all levels including senior clinicians and executive leaders.
- Ability to work on own initiative and to plan, prioritise and organise work to ensure targets and deadlines are met
- Report writing and written presentation skills
- Ability to resolve complex issues through the use of a variety of problem solving techniques
- Good leadership skills with the ability to motivate others
Desirable
- Ability to manipulate complex data
- Good general computer literacy
- Previous Experience of the Epic System and reporting functionality.
- Training skills
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent qualification relevant to data management
- Postgraduate diploma or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience in a data management setting, preferably within the NHS
- Expert knowledge of NHS data flows, datasets and standards, including data captured as part diagnosis, treatsment and care of cancer
- Good knowledge of hospital clinical and information systems
- Experience in interpretation of data, and analysis including root cause analysis.
- Experience in using data to design and deliver service improvements
- Experience of specifying reporting and information outputs
- Experience of managing a team
- Experience in summarising data and report writing, especially explaining complex technical issues to a lay audience.
Skills Abilities/knowledge
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation and reporting writing skills
- Computer literate in Microsoft products
- Good numerical skills and ability to analyse information in a meaningful manner in order to inform service decisions
- Ability to communicate effectively and influence staff at all levels including senior clinicians and executive leaders.
- Ability to work on own initiative and to plan, prioritise and organise work to ensure targets and deadlines are met
- Report writing and written presentation skills
- Ability to resolve complex issues through the use of a variety of problem solving techniques
- Good leadership skills with the ability to motivate others
Desirable
- Ability to manipulate complex data
- Good general computer literacy
- Previous Experience of the Epic System and reporting functionality.
- Training skills
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.
