Overview
Interview date
07/02/2023
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond – come and take your place with us.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a full time (37.5hr) enthusiastic and motivated person to a full-time position working Mon-Fri (8am to 4pm) within the Data Quality department.
Working with a well-established and highly skilled team where all staff are based across the Northern Care Alliance which consists of Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Salford. At present all staff are working from home, but in the future you could be based at any of the sites within the Northern Care Alliance.
Main duties of the job
You will provide support to ensure the quality of patient records, demographic and hospital activity data within the Trust Core system (PAS) are of a standard sufficiently high enough for the Organisation to carry out its obligation to patients and for use in clinical governance, income recovery, business and financial functions.
Strong communication skills and having a keen eye for detail and accuracy are an essential part of the post. A good working knowledge of the Trust Core System (PAS/Patient Centre) would be beneficial as would a knowledge of the patient pathways – Inpatient, outpatient and A&E and the admission, discharge and transfer process’ on PAS.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.
In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, marital status, social background or trade union membership.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
NVQ Level 3 Business Admin
Literacy & Numeracy Level 2 or Stand equivilant
ECDL or ECDL competencies
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of medical records processes
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of data quality processes within the Trust Core System (PAS)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate a willingness to learn
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Able to work to deadlines
- Able to manage own workload
- Good time management skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of promoting good quality data within an NHS system
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in a healthcare environment
COVID-19 Vaccination Information
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/covid-19-vaccination-programme where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
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We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from everyone. We value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of our local community. If you are disabled and require reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact the Recruitment Team to discuss.
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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.
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