Data Quality Officer


Location
Salary
£34186.00 to £37389.00
Profession
Officer (discipline unspecified)
Grade
Band 4
Deadline
19 Oct 2026
Contract Type
Fixed term: 18 months (End Date TBC)
Posted Date
13 Oct 2026
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Job requirements

Essential

26 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Other

    Patient focused.

  • Other

    Ability to manage sensitive information regarding patients treatment at the Trust.

  • Other

    Flexible approach to work and the ability to prioritise workload.

  • Other

    Ability to work across all hospital sites.

  • Other

    Ability to work remotely for part of the working week.

  • Other

    Friendly and able to interact with colleagues.

  • Other

    Professional appearance.

  • Other

    Able to attend training at off-site venues.

  • Other

    Awareness of confidentiality in the workplace

  • Skills

    Ability to receive and understand complex information about a patient pathway or patient record.

  • Skills

    Ability to negotiate with stakeholders on a routine basis.

  • Skills

    To be able to manage a range of facts or situations, requiring comparison of a range of options in order to make a decision about a potential correction to patient information.

  • Skills

    Excellent communication and presentation skills - both verbal and written.

  • Skills

    Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex concepts to diverse groups.

  • Skills

    Ability to assess and prioritise information to plan a daily workload to avoid duplication of effort across the team.

  • Skills

    Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Outlook).

  • Knowledge

    Knowledge of national targets with respect to the patient pathway.

  • Knowledge

    A sound knowledge and demonstrable competence re: 18-week referral to treatment rules.

  • Experience

    Experience in NHS or equivalent patient care setting.

  • Experience

    Evidence of a positive approach to working in complex environments.

  • Experience

    Experience of office work procedures and practices.

  • Experience

    Practical or theoretical experience of correcting information in a patient administration system, involving daily data entry

  • Qualifications

    Educated to GSCE level or equivalent, including Math’s and English.

  • Qualifications

    NVQ Level 4 or equivalent or A Level

  • Qualifications

    Higher level knowledge or equivalent experience to NVQ 4 level.

  • Qualifications

    ECDL or equivalent experience e.g. experience of a range of IT packages such as Microsoft Applications, Word, Excel and Outlook

Desirable

7 listed

Additional qualities the employer would prefer.

  • Knowledge

    Knowledge of workflows and data sets within relevant hospital systems

  • Experience

    Knowledge of RTT Rules and the application of RTT rules to a patient’s pathway.

  • Experience

    Proven track record of working in NHS trusts and significant exposure to operational managers.

  • Experience

    Experience of Cerner Millennium/PAS System.

  • Experience

    Knowledge of the National Spine.

  • Experience

    Experience interpreting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

  • Experience

    Experience of managing 2nd line service desk requests.

Job overview

* 2 part time positions*

Barts Health is looking to recruit into the role of Data Quality Correction, a dynamic, highly motivated and conscientious individual who is able to work on their own initiative. The candidate must have strong interpersonal and communication skills, together with attention to detail. The post holder must be flexible with their approach to decision making and problem solving. This post requires an enthusiastic, adaptable and committed person.

This is a very exciting role that will support the Data Quality agenda for the Trust through the intervention of Data Quality campaigns within the clinical specialities working closely with front end users to resolve any data quality errors in EPR.

The contractual base for the role is Canary Wharf, however the role may require working at operational sites (Royal London Hospital, Mile End Hospital, Newham Hospital, St Barts Hospital & Whipps Cross Hospital).

This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone who is passionate about Data Quality and would like to develop their skills whilst supporting one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country. The role will provide opportunities to work with senior leaders, clinicians and supporting projects for local and national initiatives in line with the Trust Data Quality Mission and the National Data Quality Principles.

For further details/informal visits, please contact:

Beth Hill

Data Quality Training and Delivery Manager

beth.hill6@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

Provides ongoing admin support to the management team to help resolve day to day problems independently and to act as the first point of contact for enquiries from stakeholders.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the patient administration system contains accurate information, ranging from the validation of pathways, to ensuring the accuracy of demographic data, accurate commissioning information and assisting operational efficiency measures.

Data Quality (DQ) issues will be raised on the Trusts Alemba system, this system will be routinely monitored by the post holder to ensure that all DQ issues are appropriately acted upon.

The post-holder will utilise the Trust’s Patient Tracking List (PTL), Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reports and Trust Service desk queue (Alemba) to identify and validate a patient pathway. This involves actively validating patient data on admitted and non-admitted care pathways to support the Trust in achieving the national RTT and Data Quality performance targets.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that any newly identified data quality issues are highlighted to their manager and any potential RTT breaches are escalated appropriately to enable pathways to be proactively managed and resolved prior to any potential breach.

Post-holders must be able to supply their own PC/Laptop if/when working remotely.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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