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Child Health Data Quality & Failsafe Administrator
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref
301-JP-24-6174767
Employer
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lawton House
Town
Trentham
Salary
Band 3
Closing
07/05/2024 08:00

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CHIS Data Quality & Failsafe Administrator

NHS AfC: Band 3

Job overview

1 Permanent Full-Time role required, 37.5 hrs per week, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

Salary: Band 3 (£22,816 - £24,336)

This is a permanent position and will be based at Lawton House, Bellringer Road, Trentham, Stoke on Trent ST4 8HH.

We are looking to recruit a Child Health Data Quality & Failsafe Administrator who is motivated, flexible, and enthusiastic to join our Child Health Information Service (CHIS) Team.

Working as a Data Quality & Failsafe  member of the Child Health Information Service (CHIS) Team, you will be responsible, as part of the CHIS team, for processing and validating a wide range of highly confidential activities to support the day-to-day functioning of the department, including running CHIS system reports for Health Professionals,  thus ensuring all aspects of the Healthy Child Programme are met.

Main duties of the job

The role will require a  Data Quality & Failsafe  Administrator who will create, review and amend computerised records for children who reside or are the responsibility of childhood services within the West Midlands CHIS-Northern Hub (Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin).  This is achieved by receiving information from Antenatal Services, previous Child Health Departments, GP Practices, Health Visiting, School Nurses Services etc. Data Quality checking and recording information of immunisations, surveillance, neonatal screening results and NHS Number on to the Child Health Information System.

The successful candidate will have a positive, can-do attitude to work and will strive to be a highly effective member of the CHIS team. The role consists of  quality checking, processing and updating health records for children to ensure these are correct and up to date, and it would be suited to someone who enjoys repetitive data review and entry and can carry out these tasks with a high degree of accuracy. They will need to be computer literate in Word,  with extensive use of Excel, and electronic mail displaying a high level of accuracy and attention to detail in data input.

Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping  your communities and in return for this, we will support you by; 

  • Supporting your career development and progression
  • Excellent NHS Pension scheme
  • Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Options for flexible working
  • Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
  • Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
  • If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
  • Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
  • Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
  • Free car parking at all trust sites
  • Free flu vaccinations every year
  • Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

•   To complete data quality and failsafe tasks, review, quality check and input missing information on to electronic record systems following Trust guidelines.
•    Produce and disseminate data quality reports to clinical staff from our bespoke Child Health Information System to agreed departmental standards.
•    To make, receive and action queries in a professional manner, as agreed by the service, liaising with colleagues, GP’s, and other agencies verbally, virtually by email and telephone.
•    To liaise with the clinical teams to support the delivery of services across West Midlands CHIS-Northern Hub.
•    To communicate information to and receive information from managers, colleagues, and others, whilst being aware of the need to maintain confidentiality.
•    To adopt a constantly flexible team working approach to ensure that all individual and team objectives are completed efficiently and within given timescales.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • Achieved grade
Desirable criteria
  • Achieved grade

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous experience
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Essential skills
Desirable criteria
  • Essential skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Deborah Dobb
Job title
Senior Team Leader - Data Quality & Failsafe
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01283 894988
Additional information

Interview to follow.

During the interview, a simple Test will be performed in Excel, to spot data anomalies, taking 10 minutes to complete.

Please note this vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Hybrid working will be considered after the initial in-house office training has been completed.

All essential requirements are outlined in the Person Specification document available on the NHS Jobs Website.

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