Data Quality Lead

The Improving Elective Care Coordination Programme has been established during the pandemic with the commitment to:

- Improve equity of access, reduce unwarranted variation in clinical outcomes and productivity.

- Ensure we provide timely care to our patients and reduce the elective backlog.

- Keep elective pathways running for as long as possible in the context of managing COVID surge and elective recovery

- Operate in the most efficient way possible and to increase productivity

- Follow best practice

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Manage a complex network of technical and operational stakeholders to ensure forward progress of the Trust CCS implementation.
• Conduct data reviews of the data within Trust CCS and spot areas of technical or operational concern (incorrectly interrogated fields, long waiters, or arising clinical issues).
• Ensure resolution of identified issues by working proactively with Theatre Schedulers and Consultants.
• Provide feedback and data for monitoring of progress, activity, and other relevant information.
• Support Data Quality Analyst with collecting, aggregating, entering, and helping to validate data.
• Providing data quality advice and guidance to other colleagues in the Trusts.
• Feeding back changes that will need to be made to data management within Trusts experience.
• Monitoring services to ensure compliance with national data quality standards.
• Promoting the importance of data quality across the organisation.
• Supporting the RTT validation team where required including undertaking validation tasks / training.

Skills and Experience:

• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations.
• A technical mindset, able to review and interpret clinical data
• Understanding of NHS data
• Experience of data quality activities
• Experience in key database systems e.g., SQL