Job summary
Senior Data Quality Officer
37.5 hours per week
Permanent
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Closing Date: 15th July 2025
Interview Date: 11th August 2025
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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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.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
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.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
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
- Understanding of the 18-week referral to treatment target
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
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate sensitive and complex information
- Able to work in a demanding environment and achieve tight deadlines
- Motivate and persuade others from outside of your team
- Use own initiative
- Able to analyse data
- Quickly and expertly identify and investigate inconsistencies in data
- Ability to organise work involving input from other people
Desirable
- 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
- Understanding of the 18-week referral to treatment target
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
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate sensitive and complex information
- Able to work in a demanding environment and achieve tight deadlines
- Motivate and persuade others from outside of your team
- Use own initiative
- Able to analyse data
- Quickly and expertly identify and investigate inconsistencies in data
- Ability to organise work involving input from other people
Desirable
- 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).
