The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is the worlds first Hospital dedicated to cancer diagnosis, treatment, research, and education. The Trust has a track record of high data quality and uses data in all aspects of delivering high quality care, including planning, performance monitoring, service improvements and research. Managing the Trust data quality team and function, you will work closely with clinical, managerial, and operational colleagues to enhance data acquisition processes, improve data quality and completeness, and to help design processes to embed good data practice and awareness within operational teams. Following the implementation of a new digital health record, Epic, in March 2023 this new role has been established to help bring greater governance and focus to data assurance as the Trust continues to develop its use of data and digital technology. The Royal Marsden and Great Ormond Street share a clinical system, so there will also be the opportunity to work with data assurance colleagues at Great Ormond Street hospital to share best practices and agree on priorities across both organisations. This is a real opportunity to help champion the way the Trust improves the overall management of data, whether operational, clinical or research. If this sounds like a challenge youd enjoy, wed like to hear from you. Main duties of the job The post holder 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. The post holder also 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. Thats 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 and learning and development opportunities. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements. Job responsibilities Develop effective communication strategies and plan and deliver education and training programmes in support of best practice data capture and data management. To find effective and innovative ways to champion and influence data entry users and clinicians in the capture of high quality data at source, and to work with technical digital and data experts to determine where system developments can deliver improved data across the organisations systems. 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 • Degree or equivalent qualification relevant to data management • Postgraduate diploma or equivalent experience Experience • 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