A unique and exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Commissioning & Quality Assurance Team as a Data Quality and Data Entry Officer.

You should be enthusiastic, logical and enjoy working within a team.

This is an interesting and varied role which involves:

Assisting end users regarding queries relating to the Trust Patient Administration system (Rio) including data entry into the system

Completing data quality checks via the Trustwide dashboards and reports

The input and theming of the Trustwide patient surveys 'Your Voice'

Assigning a clinical diagnostic code to a patient record (ICD-10). Specific training will be provided to support you to undertake this task therefore previous experience is not a necessary requirement but a willingness to learn and undertake relevant identified training.

Providing a support function for services to ensure patient demographic data is accurate via use of a national system.

Main duties of the job

To support the central Commissioning and Quality Assurance Team in meeting the Trusts overall data quality and clinical coding requirements.

To carry out duties as delegated by the Commissioning and Quality Assurance Team Leader to ensure diagnostic coding is extracted and translated into the correct clinical coding terminology and entered into the patient record from identified source documentation available.

To support clinicians with related clinical coding and data quality queries and provide specialist advice to clinicians.

To provide support within the Commissioning and Quality Assurance Team to ensure data entry requirements are met.

To provide support to Commissioning and Quality Assurance staff in training sessions on the importance of data and use of dashboards, to Trust staff of all levels.

To monitor, identify and take sustainable action to address data quality issues, including identification of training need and provision of training to relevant service areas/teams.

Assist in the development of internal training programmes focusing on identified data quality issues across the Trust. Data Quality issues can be identified through team feedback, attending team meetings, or from the information analysts team.

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.