Job Description

Sefton Sexual Health Service is a community integrated sexual health service delivering a Hub and Spoke model across Sefton.



Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust are looking for a Data Administrator to join the team at Southport and support all aspects of coding and mandatory data submissions within the service.



We offer a full range of sexual health services including testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and contraception.



The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills and will have the ability to forge and maintain good working relationships with administrative, nursing and medical colleagues all of whom are valued members of our team.



This post is subject to Standard DBS clearance



Interviews will take place on 14th August



Please note this vacancy may close early if sufficient applications are received.



The post holder will support Health Advisors with results management within the sexual health service



The post holder will develop an in depth knowledge and understanding of all sexual health mandatory datasets and be responsible for the cleansing of data within the sexual health service prior to validation and submission.



The post holder will work closely with the Health Adviser team and be responsible for minute taking at team meetings



The post holder will support The Health Improvement Team with the administration of the National Chlamydia Screening Programme in Sefton



Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.



We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services:

Acute Care



Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.



Primary Care



Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.



Community Services



Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.



Specialist Regional Services



We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme



Accurate inputting of data onto Electronic Patient Record



Investigate queries in relation to GUMCAD/SRHAD



Ensure timely provision of data to the Information to ensure the production of operational performance reports and KPIs



Interrogation of the sexual health computer system to ensure correct attendance type, activity and diagnoses attributed to episodes of care/attendance.



Contribute to the development of a data quality culture in the sexual health service by highlighting data issues, working to develop solutions and ensuring routine audit/validation of all data communicating data quality issues in SRHAD/GUMCAD to all staff and senior management through verbal or written means



Link with other Trust colleagues to enable an integrated view of performance to be taken



Contribute to the local and national audit requirements of the service



Supports all report production by working closely with the information team and service manager



To be responsible for minute taking in Health Adviser team meetings



Works closely with the Health Adviser team in relation to results management within the sexual health service



To acts as System Administrator for sexual health computer system and have thorough knowledge of all its functions and be the first point of contact for departmental IT issues in the absence of the Sexual Health Administration Manager



Be the first point of contact for all data reporting internally



Deal with telephone enquiries from sexual health staff in relation to GUMCAD/SRHAD coding