Job overview

The Data Assurance and Quality Manager will ensure  processes to support the data services are robust and consistent - from data entry and collation to the production of internal reports and external submissions.

They also monitor how the Trust is viewed on external reporting  platforms and support audits processes.

The role also manages the Data Quality team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead on the provision of a responsive data quality function facilitating the building and maintaining a flexible data quality library for action, monitoring and reporting, and providing a partnership approach with the business. 

The post holder will also provide overall assurance for the collection, provision and analysis of information for statutory and mandatory returns and external submissions.

Provide assurance to the Trust regarding the reliability of information presented in the internal and external board reports. This will also involve alerting the Trust where any metric is that is an exception.

The post holder will be responsible for overseeing and ensuring all Data Quality policies and practices are accurate, current and disseminated across the team and the Trust. The post holder will need to ensure best practice is embedded in Data collection and management and data flows 

This is a key post in defining, maintaining and communicating the strategy and vision for Data Quality across the Trust, and supporting the continued move towards improving the data quality thought the trust.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search HHFT Climate Action or [email protected].

Priority will be given to existing employees within the H&IOW NHS System which includes the following Trusts. University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust