Job overview
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a passionate and dedicated Data Assurance Manager to Join our Performance & Information Directorate. This role offers the individual the opportunity to Lead the Trust in delivering is ambitions of providing high quality, complete and accurate data to support analysis, research and decision making within the Trust.
The Royal Marsden has a vital role in championing change and improvement in cancer care through research and innovation, education, and leading-edge practice. We are incredibly proud of our international reputation for pushing the boundaries and for our ground-breaking work ensuring our patients receive the very best and latest in cancer treatment and care.
Main duties of the job
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.
To develop the Trust’s Data Quality and Assurance Policy and the Data Quality (DQ) Programme in accordance with both national initiatives and local requirements to drive up data quality.
This involves clearly establishing required data entry and classification standards and setting strategies to ensure that those standards can be met and sustained within available resources in the Trust.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information please refer to the job description and personal specification.
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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. To oversee the design and scope of data quality-related work queues in Epic and ensure appropriate specification, ownership and management of these to deliver high quality data.
5. 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.
6. 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 criteria
7. Degree or equivalent qualification relevant to data management
8. Postgraduate diploma or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
9. Experience in a data management setting, preferably within the NHS
10. Expert knowledge of NHS data flows, datasets and standards, including data captured as part diagnosis, treatsment and care of cancer.
11. Good knowledge of hospital clinical and information systems
12. Experience in interpretation of data, and analysis including root cause analysis.
13. Experience in using data to design and deliver service improvements
14. Experience of specifying reporting and information outputs
15. Experience of managing a team
16. Experience in summarising data and report writing, especially explaining complex technical issues to a lay audience.
Skills Abilities/knowledge
Essential criteria
17. Excellent interpersonal, presentation and reporting writing skills
18. Computer literate in Microsoft products
19. Good numerical skills and ability to analyse information in a meaningful manner in order to inform service decisions
20. Ability to communicate effectively and influence staff at all levels including senior clinicians and executive leaders
21. Ability to work on own initiative and to plan, prioritise and organise work to ensure targets and deadlines are met
22. Report writing and written presentation skills
23. Ability to resolve complex issues through the use of a variety of problem solving techniques
24. Good leadership skills with the ability to motivate others
Desirable criteria
25. Ability to manipulate complex data
26. Good general computer literacy
27. Training skills
The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.
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.
Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of our Staff
At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.
The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.
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