Job summary
- Main area
- Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (ending 12 months from start date)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-7455885
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 per annuum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 27/10/2025
Employer heading
Database Administrator-Hepatology
NHS AfC: Band 4
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Database Administration- Hepatology who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Hepatology Team at the East and North Herts NHS Trust for a 12-month period based at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. The post involves working alongside the Liver Specialist Nurses, Consultants and PA's to support the hepatology team to fulfil the national requirement for a robust Liver Surveillance registry.
The EoE Cancer Alliances have worked collaboratively with Eclipse and the NHS Cancer Programme National Team to create a live interactive database to support the LSP across the EoE Region by creating additional functionality into Eclipse database.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
The Database Administration will identify patients that should be on the LSP that are not currently listed, including those that have failed to attend and / or are lost to follow-up.
To populate the mandatory field template in relation to the Eclipse portal to ensure the named patient has been added to the portal with all relevant details.
To work with the hepatobiliary service to ensure all patients that should be listed on the LSP registry are added appropriately.
The successful candidate will have the ability to access local hospital patient administration systems and data to identify appropriate patients.
To add newly identified patients to LSP as identified by the local service.
To contact patients that are lost to follow-up or disengaged with LSP and support them back into the surveillance programme.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Diploma or equivalent and /or relevant research experience.
Desirable criteria
- Graduate qualification
- Relevant training courses in clinical research
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in clinical trial administration including data management.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a healthcare setting.
- Experience of staff supervision.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the clinical trials process.
- Familiar with GCP guidelines/EU directives.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of medical terminology.
- Knowledge of patient information systems.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good organisational skills.
- Good computer skills.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Attention to detail.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of case report forms.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tina Davies
- Job title
- SCO for Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438 284245
- Additional information
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