Data Governance Officer

Job overview

The Data Governance Officer supports the Data Governance Manager in the delivery of robust data governance across the Trust, acting as a specialist point of contact for data quality and governance advice, ensuring the quality and consistency of data used for the delivery of analytics, insights and reporting across the Trust.

Working as part of the wider Data Analytics and Insights team that delivers operational reporting, innovative and insightful visual analytics solutions and data platform development, this role focuses on supporting the implementation of data standards and the cycle of monitoring and improving the levels of quality and adherence to them.

The postholder will help ensure that data used to represent the activity and performance of Trust services is well-defined, consistently structured and aligned to agreed rules.

Main duties of the job

• Acts as a subject matter advisor on data governance and data quality issues Communicates complex and sensitive data quality and compliance issues. Facilitates discussions with services to agree actions to address data quality issue

Regular production of complex data quality reports.

Support the promotion of data governance policies to support the single view of data.

Responsible for supporting the maintenance of the data dictionary and associated KPI library.

• Support the Data Governance Manager to ensure that data models are implemented effectively. Responsible for identifying and escalating areas of data quality for improvement. Responsible for ensuring that data recorded and used is accurate, and compliant with data governance policies and procedures. Support on training and coaching to staff in specialist software, data governance tools and approaches to data quality. Contributes to the specification, testing and evaluation of data governance and reporting tools.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Acts as a subject matter advisor on data governance and data quality issues, providing specialist advice and guidance to managers, senior clinicians and operational teams.

- Communicates complex and sensitive data quality and compliance issues clearly to non‑technical audiences, explaining root causes, implications and required corrective actions.

- Facilitates discussions with services to agree actions to address data quality issues and supports informed decision‑making at service and departmental level.

- Responsible for the regular production of complex data quality reports that provide clear actions for the improvement of patient data and the teams responsible, to affect both national data submissions and team reporting and insight solutions.

- Independently analyses trends, variances and risks in data quality, exercising judgement in identifying priority issues for escalation.

- Develop dashboards in collaboration with the Performance and Insights team that enables services to view and address the data governance and compliance issues they are responsible for.

- Work with managers across the Trust to produce and share complex data quality information

- Support the promotion of data governance policies to support the single view of data.

- Responsible for supporting the maintenance of the data dictionary and associated KPI library, which ensures that the Operational Reporting and Performance and Insights teams have a shared common source for report and insight production that is aligned with Operational Services and contractual expectations.

- Support the Data Governance Manager to ensure that data models are implemented effectively, with a view towards creating models that support self service informatics.

- Support the change control processes, managing the log, producing reports to keep all stakeholders sighted.

- Responsible for documenting procedural instructions to support team knowledge sharing and business resilience, in a clear and transparent manner.

- Responsible for implementing approved Data Governance policies within own area of responsibility and proactively identifying areas for improvement, making recommendations to the Data Governance Manager.

- Promote the use of data governance policies to support the single view of data.

- Support the maintenance of the data dictionary and associated KPI library, which ensures that the Operational Reporting and Performance and Insights teams have a shared common source for report and insight production that is aligned with both Operational Services and contractual expectations.

- Facilitate version control and change management to the data models supporting clear and consistent alignment for all reporting across the department.

- Support the submission of highest quality data flows, nationally and locally with partners and commissioners, through robust feedback mechanisms to improve quality at source.

- Provides ongoing professional guidance and informal supervision to staff to support compliance with data governance standards.

- Has delegated responsibility for the effective and appropriate use of data governance tools, reports and systems within own area of work, ensuring resources are used efficiently and in line with Trust policies.

Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.