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Salary for this role£32,073 – £39,043 a year
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Role description
Job summary
The Data Governance Officer supports the Data Governance Manager in the delivery of robust data governance across the Trust, acting as a specialist point of contact for data quality and governance advice, ensuring the quality and consistency of data used for the delivery of analytics, insights and reporting across the Trust.
Working as part of the wider Data Analytics and Insights team that delivers operational reporting, innovative and insightful visual analytics solutions and data platform development, this role focuses on supporting the implementation of data standards and the cycle of monitoring and improving the levels of quality and adherence to them.
The postholder will help ensure that data used to represent the activity and performance of Trust services is well-defined, consistently structured and aligned to agreed rules.
Main duties of the job
Acts as a subject matter advisor on data governance and data quality issues
Communicates complex and sensitive data quality and compliance issues.
Facilitates discussions with services to agree actions to address data quality issue
Regular production of complex data quality reports.
Support the promotion of data governance policies to support the single view of data.
Responsible for supporting the maintenance of the data dictionary and associated KPI library.
Support the Data Governance Manager to ensure that data models are implemented effectively.
Responsible for identifying and escalating areas of data quality for improvement.
Responsible for ensuring that data recorded and used is accurate, and compliant with data governance policies and procedures.
Support on training and coaching to staff in specialist software, data governance tools and approaches to data quality.
Contributes to the specification, testing and evaluation of data governance and reporting tools.
About us
Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.
Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
Benefits
27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service.
Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.
Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
£8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Work that wraps around your needs
Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.
Details
Date posted
14 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043 a year
per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
364-B-526
Job locations
The Lodge
Lodge Approach
Runwell
SS11 7XX
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Acts as a subject matter advisor on data governance and data quality issues, providing specialist advice and guidance to managers, senior clinicians and operational teams.
- Communicates complex and sensitive data quality and compliance issues clearly to nontechnical audiences, explaining root causes, implications and required corrective actions.
- Facilitates discussions with services to agree actions to address data quality issues and supports informed decisionmaking at service and departmental level.
- Responsible for the regular production of complex data quality reports that provide clear actions for the improvement of patient data and the teams responsible, to affect both national data submissions and team reporting and insight solutions.
- Independently analyses trends, variances and risks in data quality, exercising judgement in identifying priority issues for escalation.
- Develop dashboards in collaboration with the Performance and Insights team that enables services to view and address the data governance and compliance issues they are responsible for.
- Work with managers across the Trust to produce and share complex data quality information
- Support the promotion of data governance policies to support the single view of data.
- Responsible for supporting the maintenance of the data dictionary and associated KPI library, which ensures that the Operational Reporting and Performance and Insights teams have a shared common source for report and insight production that is aligned with Operational Services and contractual expectations.
- Support the Data Governance Manager to ensure that data models are implemented effectively, with a view towards creating models that support self service informatics.
- Support the change control processes, managing the log, producing reports to keep all stakeholders sighted.
- Responsible for documenting procedural instructions to support team knowledge sharing and business resilience, in a clear and transparent manner.
- Responsible for implementing approved Data Governance policies within own area of responsibility and proactively identifying areas for improvement, making recommendations to the Data Governance Manager.
- Promote the use of data governance policies to support the single view of data.
- Support the maintenance of the data dictionary and associated KPI library, which ensures that the Operational Reporting and Performance and Insights teams have a shared common source for report and insight production that is aligned with both Operational Services and contractual expectations.
- Facilitate version control and change management to the data models supporting clear and consistent alignment for all reporting across the department.
- Support the submission of highest quality data flows, nationally and locally with partners and commissioners, through robust feedback mechanisms to improve quality at source.
- Provides ongoing professional guidance and informal supervision to staff to support compliance with data governance standards.
- Has delegated responsibility for the effective and appropriate use of data governance tools, reports and systems within own area of work, ensuring resources are used efficiently and in line with Trust policies.
Person Specification
Shortlisting
Essential
Educated to degree or equivalent level of experience and knowledge
Demonstrable experience working to improve data quality and evidence of working at in a role that necessitated working independently
Desirable
Knowledge of NHS Performance and Data Standards or similar large organisation
Experience using Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, Access
Evidence
Essential
Evidence of continuing professional development
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.