Data Assistant (Infection Prevention and Control)

NHS Ayrshire & Arran; Wideopen; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension scheme

Annual leave 35 days

Annual incremental salary progression

Paid sick leave increasing with length

NHS discounts

Job summary

NHS Lanarkshire is seeking a data administrator to support the Infection Prevention and Control Team. You will input surveillance data, maintain electronic records, and ensure data integrity across IPC systems in line with agreed timescales.

The role follows an 08:30–16:30 pattern, Monday to Thursday (Friday finish 16:00). This is a fixed-term post for 6 months; secondment options may apply for internal staff with manager approval.

Qualifications

• Numerical and technical qualifications in a statistical environment.
• Experience working in an information/statistics environment.
• Knowledge of NHS data definitions, information standards and policies.
• Good communication skills to ensure data quality, procedures and standards.

Responsibilities

• Update and interrogate departmental patient data capture systems (IP/OP activity, waiting returns, etc).
• Liaise with data providers and resolve queries and quality issues.
• Provide data quality monitoring and operational reports to end users.
• Apply NHS Lanarkshire processes to resolve validation errors (e.g., waiting times data).

Skills

Data entry

Data quality monitoring

Communication skills

Statistics environment experience

Education

Numerical and technical qualifications

Job description

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services. We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

To facilitate the work of the wider Infection Prevention and Control Team, in the provision of administrative support. This role will ensure IPC data administrative processes and systems are robust and all IPC data is recorded appropriately to agreed timescales. This role is responsible for accurate data entry and the identification of quality control issues to the IPC Team. The post holder will support the IPC Data Manager by inputting surveillance data, maintaining electronic records, and ensuring the integrity of information systems used to monitor infection trends and compliance. The post holder will work as part of the Infection Prevention and Control Team, supporting audit activity relating to all surveillance activity within the Infection Prevention and Control Department. The throughput of data according to inpatient admission rates and newly diagnosed patients.

The working pattern for this role is: 0830-1630 Monday -Thursday (1 day earlier finished per week to be agreed and 1600 finish Friday

Please note this is a fixed term post for 6 months until March 2027. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.

In This Key Role, You Will

• Update, maintain and interrogation of departmental patient based data capture and collection systems. E.g. IP / OP activity, waiting returns, community activity and survey/uptake statistics.
• Liaise with data providers and resolution of queries and quality issues with data.
• Provide data quality monitoring and operational management reports to end users.
• Develop an understanding of the National Validation Error Rules and follow the defined processes used by NHS Lanarkshire to resolve these errors. E.g Waiting Times data validation errors

What You'll Bring

• Academic qualifications that require a numerical and technical content eg. ECDL with further skills gained through a mixture of experience and internal training in a statistical environment.
• Experience working in an information/ statistics environment.
• Experience and knowledge of the application of NHS data definitions, information standards and policies is required and gained through internal training and ongoing support.
• Good communication skills are required to ensure tactful delivery of instruction and guidance on data quality, procedures and standards and maintain and encourage data flows

What We Offer

• Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

• Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children's settings.