Grade V Officer: Data Manager, National Burns Unit

**Role Title:** Grade V Officer: Data Manager, National Burns Unit **Job Reference Number:** 002742 **Closing Date:** Sunday, 1st November 2026 **Purpose of the Role** The Data Manager will provide a comprehensive data management service to the National Burns Unit, ensuring that clinical, operational and administrative data (in-patient and out-patient) are accurate, current, complete, secure and fit for purpose, and are collected, validated, analysed and reported to support patient care, service delivery, statutory and national reporting, service evaluation and future planning. The post holder is a hands-on data practitioner and first-line manager: they own the quality and timeliness of defined Burns data flows and reporting products, not the hospital's overall data strategy or its legal position as data controller. As this is a new role within a new National Burns Centre, it will evolve in line with service needs, with significant opportunity to shape data governance, reporting frameworks and performance measurement for Burns services. **Requirements:** * Have not less than two years satisfactory experience in an administrative capacity within the Public Sector / Hospital / Health Care or other environment relevant to the role. * Possess sufficient administrative capacity to discharge the functions of the grade. * Proficiency in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams) and advanced in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookups, data cleaning, summarising and charting large datasets). * Experience preparing and presenting data in a clear, meaningful format, with excellent attention to detail and data accuracy. Data collection, transformation and validation, including profiling data for quality issues and cleansing datasets before use. * Experience with Power BI dashboards and reports; sound data visualisation and dashboard design for non-technical audiences. * Ability to write and maintain clear documentation, data dictionaries, metadata and SOPs. * Demonstrable understanding of clinical data, terminology, care pathways and outcome measures as they apply to an acute hospital service. **Desirable:** * Experience working in a critical care, burns or related speciality * MS SQL/Python and other data analysis tools; querying, filtering, joining and aggregating relational data. * Experience with Clinical Information Systems (e.g. Critical Care CIS) and patient administration/EPR system data. * Awareness of Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Azure data services and the Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate); awareness of data governance and reference/master data; familiarity with version control for analytical work. * Clinical audit and/or clinical data management experience; experience in benchmarking and performance analysis.