Data Quality Officer

Do you have experience in Organizational skills?, The post holder will explore unusual or missing data items and liaise with Cancer Services Quality Co-ordinator over a variety of data quality issues, and under guidance, ensure corrections are made as instructed. You will have very good communication and people skills, as you will be required to liaise with multiple departments and multiple levels of staff in order to ensure that relevant cooperation is achieved in the provision of information and data distribution. Excellent organisational skills are essential, as the post holder would be required to work mainly under their own supervision and manage their own workload in such a way that reflects the Trusts operational and reporting deadlines. The nature of the post demands that the post holder multi-task and maintain concentration levels, despite the work-pattern occasionally being interrupted.

Accuracy and attention to detail are vital in this role; the post holder must ensure that the information collated and recorded accurately reflects the patient pathway, which in turn determines Trust compliance to various nationally published annual reports. You will need good IT skills, with experience of using Outlook, Word and Excel and some experience of using hospital administration systems would be an advantage. The post holder will have day-to-day responsibility for the collation, entry, validation and extraction of data supported in the operational use of SCR, collecting cancer data to ensure the national cancer audits, NHS England SSQD frameworks and COSD reporting requirements are completed. Monitoring and updating data set items and inputting missing information into the SCR patient records forms a large part of the job role responsibilities.

Prior experience of working in the NHS in an administrative role, particularly in an audit related area is desirable. This is a non-patient facing role. Please ensure you tailor your application to this post. This post will be based at Darlington Memorial Hospital but you may be required to travel to University Hospital of North Durham as and when required.