Location
Salary
£59,490 - £66,239 Per annum
Profession
Administrative and IT
Grade
Band 8
Deadline
11 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
27 Jun 2025

Job overview

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a passionate and dedicated Data Assurance Manager to Join our Performance & Information Directorate. This role offers the individual the opportunity to Lead the Trust in delivering is ambitions of providing high quality, complete and accurate data to support analysis, research and decision making within the Trust.

The Royal Marsden has a vital role in championing change and improvement in cancer care through research and innovation, education, and leading-edge practice. We are incredibly proud of our international reputation for pushing the boundaries and for our ground-breaking work ensuring our patients receive the very best and latest in cancer treatment and care.

Contact Details for Further Information About the Role

Lianne Mellor Deputy Chief Information Officer [email protected]

Main duties of the job

The postholder has responsibility for ensuring the Trust has appropriate standards, systems, processes and training in place to ensure highly quality complete and accurate data is available to meet all analytical, research and corporate needs of the Trust.

To develop the Trust’s Data Quality and Assurance Policy and the Data Quality (DQ) Programme in accordance with both national initiatives and local requirements to drive up data quality.

This involves clearly establishing required data entry and classification standards and setting strategies to ensure that those standards can be met and sustained within available resources in the Trust.

The postholder has responsibility for designing and embedding a data quality framework to ensure appropriate monitoring and management of Trust data collection, transformation and processing against these standards.  They will regularly monitor data quality and provide interpretation and summarisation of any identified issues or concerns to stakeholders, and data  owners.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information please refer to the job description and personal specification.

  • To develop and maintain an active granular understanding of data collection and data flows inside the organisation, as well as existing internal and national data standards and requirements.
  • To develop and embed local data collection and data management standards across the organisation in order to deliver high quality data to meet the organisations needs and the needs of the NHS as a whole.
  • To develop and embed an organisational data quality framework, that describes how data flows from input to output, and determines how the data content and quality is monitored across these data flows, with issues being flagged and acted upon.
  • To oversee the design and scope of data quality-related work queues in Epic and ensure appropriate specification, ownership and management of these to deliver high quality data.
  • To lead on the design and specification of reports that measure data quality and to ensure the appropriate readily-available information relating to data issues and current compliance against data standards.
  • To ensure that issues are owned by the correct operational/clinical leads and that there are robust processes to identify, understand and quickly resolve issues so that quality remains high at all times.