Data Audit Officers

As part of this transformation, NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) have joined to form a new organisation: Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland). This new organisation will play a pivotal role in supporting the renewal and ensuring the long-term sustainability of health and care services across Scotland., We are looking for a Data Audit Officer to join our team working on our Digital Learning Infrastructure programme. You will collaborate and problem-solve on data standards including validation and root cause analysis and contribute to creating a resilient and high-integrity data infrastructure.

Do you want to play a part in ensuring data integrity for supporting data exchanges across the Scottish Health and Care sector?

Do you enjoy collaborating and problem solving with your immediate team and across disciplines and functions?

Do you want to improve our data processes and work with team members to help us continue to raise our standards?

Do you enjoy getting involved early, working with complexity and using your skills and expertise to help ensure data quality?

Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?

Working within the technology teams across various functions you will have the opportunity to be involved throughout the development lifecycle of our products and identify changes that will directly inform the development and delivery of digital services for health and care professionals, and the public., 1. Please be advised that if you are successful in being offered the role following the recruitment process, you will be expected to attend the office prior to your start date to complete face-to-face pre-employment checks. If you require any adjustments to support this, please let us know.

2. To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.

As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or 'going rate'. Further information on these criteria can be found here.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

• Experience in data auditing and verification
• Experience of multidisciplinary collaboration
• Experience of implementing and maintaining processes to support data validation
• Demonstrate honesty, integrity, care and compassion when dealing with others, utilising tact and persuasion skills when necessary
• Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise own workloads, to meet strict deadlines

Work Pattern: Fixed Term, Full Time, 36 hours per week

Fixed-term or Secondment** Until 31^st March 2028

**For NHS applicants, an NHS secondment will be offered in the first instance. For non-NHS applicants, a fixed-term or secondment would be considered.

You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment., * Life-work balance - with opportunities for flexible working and hybrid working

• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression (up to the maximum of the salary band) plus annual NHS salary scale review
• Annual Leave - 27 Days increasing in line with service plus 8 days public holiday
• NHS discounts and more

PSD Scotland unites expertise from NES and NSS in a way that will allow us to accelerate national programmes to support the NHS to deliver better care, now and in the future. We support staff with education and training, provide the tools and data that improve services, and run vital national functions such as procurement, logistics and blood, tissue and cell services. The function of NES Technology Service is to develop and lead a programme of work and services that supports both the corporate functions that allow NES to work and deliver its strategic objective and to deliver against Scotland's Digital Health and Care Strategy. NES Technology Service (NTS) has been formed with the specific objective of consolidating NES' information-based expertise into a professional, focused centre for information and technical excellence. It has created a strategic programme for the transformation of digital based services to allow NES to become a leading digital organisation in Scottish Health, digital by default and fully aligned with the Scottish Government's technology strategies. These responsibilities relate to the core functions of NES in the following areas: * Design, development, and operation of a technical environment and * commensurate digital services to all NHS Scotland, Scottish Government and Care Sector