Data Quality Migration Project Manager

Transformation Unit; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Data Quality Migration Validation Project Manager (Band 6) to lead the Data Quality Migration Validation Programme ahead of EPR deployment. You will plan, coordinate and oversee migration validation activities, and manage a team of validators to mitigate data quality risks.

The post requires strong programme management, leadership and cross-disciplinary collaboration with clinical and IT stakeholders to ensure high data standards

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Evidence of management training or qualification.
• Experience with digital information systems and NHS data quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of the Data Quality Migration Validation Programme.
• Ensure validation activities meet timescales and programme objectives.
• Provide direct line management for Data Quality Migration Administrators.
• Allocate workloads and manage productivity across validation workstreams.
• Monitor quality and ensure compliance with validation methodologies.

Skills

Analytical skills

Good communication

Teamwork

Stakeholder liaison

SQL

Education

Degree level education

LM level 3 or equivalent

Management training/qualification

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

SQL

Job description

Main area Corporate Operations Grade Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 18 months (Contracted until end of May 2028) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 287-CEF-405-26

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Liverpool Innovation Park Town Liverpool Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 17/11/2026 23:59

Data Quality Migration Project Manager

Band 6

Job overview

The Data Quality Migration Validation Project Manager will lead the delivery of the Data Quality Migration Validation Programme, ensuring that patient administration and pathway data is validated and accurate in advance of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) implementation.

The post holder will be responsible for planning, coordinating and overseeing all migration validation activities, managing a team of Data Quality Migration Validators, and ensuring that data quality risks are identified and mitigated.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the development and delivery of the Data Quality Migration Validation Programme.

Ensure validation activities are delivered within agreed timescales and programme objectives.

Provide direct line management for Data Quality Migration Administrators.

Allocate workloads and manage productivity across validation workstreams.

Undertake performance reviews, objective setting, sickness management and wellbeing support.

Monitor quality and consistency of validation outcomes.

Ensure staff comply with established validation methodologies and standard operating procedures.

Prioritise validation cohorts based on migration risk, patient safety impact and programme requirements.

Ensure data quality standards are achieved prior to migration testing and deployment.

Working for our organisation

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities.

We are one of the largest employers in region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West.

We operate from five hospital sites: Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provide specialist services incardiothoracic surgery,cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for more information.

Job Summary:

The post holder will support the Information Quality manager to ensure delivery and development of the service.

The post holder is to be responsible for managing the data quality team in ensuring that trust data for all our key systems is accurate and fit for purpose.

The post holder will liaise with other digital and operational managers to promote better information quality, ensure compliance with required data standards and improve the Trust position.

The post holder will act as the department skills and development network lead and aid the department in achieving accreditation.

The post holder will maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the key operational working processes that impact on the trust systems and data quality, understanding the impact on down stream or linked systems

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Evidence of relevant professional management training and / or qualification
• LM level 3 or equivalent

Experience

• Evidence of continued personal and professional development
• Experience of direct staff management and skills in staff management
• Able to use Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Advanced Keyboard & Mouse Skills
• Experience and success in working with a management framework

Knowledge

• Experience of Digital Information Systems
• Knowledge of data quality requirements and data definitions
• Experience working in patient service delivery area in an acute hospital environment with Specialist Knowledge of IM&T
• Knowledge and understanding of the NHS strategic direction both locally and nationally

Skills

• Proven analytical skills
• Good communication skills (written, oral, presentational and interpersonal).
• Ability to work under pressure, run multiple tasks at the same time and deal with interruptions
• Able to communicate well and liaise with people at all levels within and outside the Trust
• To be able to concentrate for long periods of time
• Database skills including SQL

Other

• Ability to work as a team member
• Reliable, flexible, motivated and pro-active
• Willing to undertake further training as necessary
• Willing to support ad hoc system upgrades which may take place out of hours
• Treat everyone with respect, courtesy and kindness

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18 th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £25.70 (standard disclosure) or £46.70 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

Our statement on modern slavery

We have zero tolerance of slavery and human trafficking and are committed to maintaining and improving systems, processes and policies to avoid complicity in human rights violation and to prevent slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain.

The Trust policies, procedures, governance and legal arrangements are robust, ensuring that proper checks and due diligence are applied in employment procedures to ensure compliance with this legislation. We also conform to the NHS employment check standards within our workforce recruitment and selection practices. This strategic approach incorporates analysis of the Trust’s supply chains and its partners to assess risk exposure and management on modern slavery.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Name Rebecca Rosson Job title Deputy Head of Patient Access and Validation Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0151 706 4666