Senior Administrator - Data Quality Kingston upon Hull, England
Job description
The Data Coordinator post is a fundamental role within the Trust’s Trauma Audit Team ensuring that clinical information from patient records for trauma patients is extracted, interpreted and submitted in line with national deadlines, guidance and requirements.
The Data Coordinator will work within a small team providing administrative and secretarial support to the Trust’s Major Trauma Unit. A key function of the role is ensuring that all significant patient data is collected and recorded promptly and accurately on the Trauma Unit’s Silver Tracker in preparation for submission to national databases. This will involve the identification, using identified inclusion criteria, of patients admitted to the Trust with major trauma and subsequent completion of data submissions via the Electronic Data Collection and Reporting (EDCR) system.
The Data Coordinator will have the responsibility for data submission for a specialist database and will support other colleagues within the wider Trauma Audit Team when required; to ensure efficiency and compliance in the collection and submission of eligible patient data. The databases used by the team of Data Coordinators include, but is not limited to; British Spinal Surgery, Neck of Femur, Patient Reporting Outcome Measures (PROMS), Refer a Patient and Trauma Audit Research Network (TARN).
The postholder will maintain close working relationships with other members across the Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service to facilitate cross-site working.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust strongly encourages new starters to have the Covid-19 vaccine. However, it is not a mandatory requirement to work for us.
HUTH has two main sites: Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital with an annual budget of approximately £800 million. The Trust employs around 11,000 staff and serves an extended population of 1.25 million, delivering a number of outpatient services from locations across the area.
The Trust’s secondary care service portfolio is comprehensive, covering the major medical and surgical specialties, routine and specialist diagnostic services and other clinical support services. These services are provided primarily to a catchment population of approximately 600,000 in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire area.
HUTH provides specialist and tertiary services to a population of 1.25 million extending from Scarborough in North Yorkshire to Grimsby and Scunthorpe in North East and North Lincolnshire respectively.
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
