Data Governance Officer

NHS Jobs runwell Posted 26 Oct 2026 Closing: 25 Nov 2026

Permanent On-site

Competitive

Clinical Role Overview

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 analyzes 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.

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