Job overview

We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic and innovative to join our neonatal team here at the RUH.

This is an administrative and data quality role, with a focus on ensuring that neonatal data is complete, accurate and reportable to Badgernet, National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP), Vermont Oxford (VON), South West Neonatal Network and departmental audit.

You will be responsible for collating and maintaining robust, timely and reliable data for upward reporting to demonstrate any variation in outcomes that may be impacted by health inequalities. 

The role involves providing high quality secretarial and administrative support to the Consultant Neonatal Nurse. There will also be some opportunities to work with other divisional secretarial and administrative colleagues.

This is a valued role in which you will provide data necessary to support the neonatal senior team to provide accurate analysis of service provision, and to ensure that all data relating to neonatal care is collated and processed in accordance with national and local timescales for data submission. 

You will be joining a friendly, welcoming team who are passionate about making a difference to our patients, their families and colleagues.

Main duties of the job

Data Capture and Reporting

• Ensure data collection within Badgernet is complete, accurate and thorough.
• To manually input data from paper notes or from elsewhere where there is missing data.
•  Manage patient documentation in line with Trust policy.
• Undertake data quality reporting within set timescales to ensure accurate and up to date service information is available
• Support the maintenance of Neonatal Community Outreach activity data
• Develop training and communication tools to drive up data quality; planning of training activities and scheduling diary of self and manager
• To assist with other data quality and validation issues facing the department, as required
• To ensure data is provided in a way that provides useful and understandable information to all levels of staff, and communicated with all those who require it.

• Actively monitor staff compliance with digital documentation and data entry.

Collaboration and Secretarial

• Communicate and collaborate with the Consultant Neonatal Nurse and a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• With support represent neonatal services within Southwest Neonatal Network data meetings.
• Collaborate with the secretarial and paediatric out-patient department.

• Support Consultant Neonatal Nurse in administrative duties
•  To ensure that patient confidentiality is always maintained.
• To assist in the training of new members of staff in the department, as required.

Working for our organisation

At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country. 

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.