Data Solutions Administrator

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare institution seeks a dedicated professional to enhance data quality within its Performance & Informatics department. You will support patient data management and collaborate across services to ensure data accuracy and improve reporting processes. Ideal candidates will have experience in healthcare data quality and a passion for delivering high standards of care.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting data quality in healthcare settings.
• Knowledge of national policies and procedures related to data management.
• Strong analytical skills to identify and resolve data quality issues.

Responsibilities

• Support high-quality data recording on patient-based systems.
• Identify and resolve data quality issues with services.
• Develop solutions and monitor improvements in data quality.

Skills

Data quality management

Patient data management

Performance monitoring

Job description

The post holder will be joining our Performance & Informatics (P&I) department who are well respected and the largest of our corporate services. The P&I portfolio encompasses Business Intelligence & Informatics, Corporate Performance, Information Systems Development, Clinical Coding, Data Quality, Patient Access and Cancer Services.

Please note this is a full-time on-site role and working hours would be between normal office hours of 0800 to 1700.

P&I work cross functionally to support the Trusts operational delivery of both national and internal targets which ensures the highest standards of patient care are delivered. A robust Performance Management Framework is embedded across UHCW that tracks and evaluates progress and supports both operational and clinical governance frameworks.

New opportunities at a national level are being developed by P&I in areas of health inequality, waiting list management and system working. Most notably working innovatively to develop the Health Equity and the Right to Treatment (HEARTT) tool which culminated in being awarded the Innovation and Improvement in Reducing Healthcare Inequalities Award 2022 and the Best Healthcare Analytics Award 2024 at the prestigious Health Service Journal Awards.

The post-holder will work as part of the newly formed Data Solutions Group reporting into Data Quality at the Trust taking on key data quality work from EPR stabilisation groups to ensure that patient related data held within the Trust is accurate and complete enabling reliable and robust reporting to support clinical and business processes, statutory information returns and income generation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the recording of high-quality data on the Trusts patient-based systems.
• Use systems to identify data quality issues on the Trusts patient-based systems using a variety of tools and in collaboration with the services identify the root causes of the issues.
• Work with the services to develop solutions to the issues e.g. development of standard operating procedures.
• Monitor and report on performance and improvements until the data quality levels required are sustainably achieved.
• Be an expert in all aspects of data quality and patient data management ensuring knowledge and adherence to all relevant national policy and procedures.

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community.