Data Quality Validator - Northampton, United Kingdom - Northampton General Hospital

Northampton General Hospital
Northampton General Hospital
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Northampton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Service and Business Management To contribute to the development and implementation of departmental procedures and guidelines, ensuring they are embedded within the team, and monitor group wide policies, procedures and guidelines, proposing changes to improve data quality.

Assist the organisation in the improvement of data quality throughout the division, in line with Data Dictionary definitions, promoting the importance and a greater understanding of the need for good data quality throughout the organisation.

Provide expert help and advice to system users throughout the business as and when required, to ensure accuracy and completeness of data input is maintained and improved upon.

Develop close relationships with the users by making regular work place visits and identify potential data quality problems through links with the users.


Develop and maintain audit reports and improvement plans to comply with Information Governance, providing regular reports and dashboards to show progress and action plans for dealing with problem areas, and make recommendations to rectify any issues.

To keep abreast of new and amended processes of PAS and relevant key IM&T systems for different areas of the division, in order to determine correct advice and guidance when answering queries.

Maintain a data quality log and improvement plan and provide regular reports and dashboards to show progress and action plans for dealing with problem areas.

Analyse complex and sensitive data to identify data quality issues and create, develop and maintain data quality reports ensuring action is taken to amend anomalies found.


Undertake regular audits as required to comply with Information Governance requirements, provide audit reports to show results and identify areas of weakness, and make recommendations to rectify any issues.

Monitor data quality reports and audits, and investigate data quality queries raised by other sources, including external organisations i.e. ICS, GP practices etc.

Record issues and improvements, reporting these outcomes to relevant departments, proposing change in processes within these areas to improve their data quality.


Plan and develop training requirements based on needs analysis, liaising directly with staff/groups responsible for data quality issues, across the division, and deliver targeted core training in a number of different processes, and specialist training in data quality, informing manager of issues and action taken.

To analyse and interpret complex information from a number of different sources i.e.

patient clinical records, clinical information systems, demographic systems, external sources etc, using judgement to determine correct outcomes of data quality investigations, when information is not clearly defined.

Attend meetings to promote data quality and ensure delivery of the Data Quality Improvement Plan, discussing issues arising from audits and reports and provide suggestions for solutions.

Motivate and persuade all disciplines of staff necessary to achieve accurate data and timely, including Clinicians, Medical Secretaries, Nurses/Midwives, Ward Managers, Ward Clerks, GP practices, National Back Office etc.

Work closely with the Clinical Coding Team, ICT Trainers, Finance department and other departments across the group to develop appropriate documentation and reports to improve the quality of information provided for all information flows.

Motivate and persuade all disciplines of staff necessary to achieve accurate data and timely, including Clinicians, Medical Secretaries, Nurses/Midwives, Ward Managers, Ward Clerks, GP practices, National Back Office etc.

The role is expected to provide mentoring to junior colleagues in the department.

This will involve delivering training. Undertake any other reasonable and appropriate duties as may be requested, deputising in matters of Data Quality as required.

Systems and Governance To ensure compliance with all legislation and obligations relating to data, ensuring to review or amend existing departmental procedures are reviewed to ensure requirements are met.

Ensure the confidentiality of all information and documentation and adhere to the Data Protection Act 2018, as amended or replaced in future.

Complete requested system amendments when the user does not have access to be able to complete the task.

Professional / Personal Development The post holder will need to develop and maintain their own knowledge of developments and legislation relevant to the service area and ensure that each function reflects current professional guidance and standards.

The post holder will take responsibility for his or her own professional development, identifying training and educational needs and agreeing ways of addressing these with the Divisional Manager.

Please see attached job description and person specification for further details
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