Job Description

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 s upport audits processes.



The role also manages the Data Quality team.



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.



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 contactclimateaction@hhft.nhs.uk .



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



Data Quality



Shape and drive a consolidated data quality strategy, based on establishing the right set of core metrics with transparent definitions



Embedding successful data quality governance by developing a structured comprehensive data quality meeting agenda across the Trust, with monthly highlight



Developing effective policies, guidance notes and presentations for data quality training and

management within department and across the Trust.



To support the delivery of quality requirements that may require operational performance or informatics support.



In cooperation with the Information Governance Manager develop and embed the Data Quality Policy for the Trust and ensure good practices are applied across the organisation.

Attend Health Records Committee, preparing papers as requested to support decision making to improve data quality



Identify a suitable communication strategy to ensure that the importance of data quality and

best practice working is understood across the Trust.



Ensure that the Data Quality user group is fit for purpose to identify root causes of data issues and form continuous improvement practices



Liaise with the Training department to ensure training packages support data quality objectives



In conjunction with Information Governance Team, develop a process to collate evidence to support the Information Governance toolkit. This may involve the creation of data audit programmes



Data Assurance



Provide assurance that data submissions are correct based on the correct data flow and processing into data submissions



To recommend remedial actions to improve these flows



Maintain a register of all external submissions with risk assessment to the robustness of

data entry and data processing for each submission



Lead on projects in conjunction within clinical, operational, administration teams that lead to better

data entry and data processing related to submissions



In conjunction with the wider Business Intelligence team, refine the process for addressing both ad-hoc and routine data challenges.



Provide assurance that the Business Intelligence team accurately and articulately detail data issues and convey problems/technical issues to relevant colleagues