Job summary
- Main area
- Radiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Secondment: 1 year
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-B-CVA27-RE
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division B
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 p.a. pro rota
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Data Coordinator
Band 4
Job overview
To provide high quality analytical and performance monitoring support, producing regular reports and data sets as well as ad-hoc analysis on time and to specification.
To actively manage the pathways for patients within the Radiotherapy Service ensuring all national and local targets are met. Deputising for the Directorate Support Manager when necessary.
Main duties of the job
1. Extract, analyse and present detailed and complex information in response to both routine and ad hoc user requirements from a range of data sources including corporate systems, departmental systems and external data sources
2. Carry out all analysis and reporting tasks efficiently, choosing appropriate software tools, and making full use of the technical reporting infrastructure, including SQL Server, MS Office software, Crystal Reports and other specialist reporting tools.
3. Contribute to reporting activities
4. Design and use appropriate validation mechanisms to ensure that all reports produced meet the users requirements and are accurate, reliable and clearly presented. Investigate results in detail if figures appear inaccurate, go against the trend, or are queried by report users.
5. Identify weaknesses in information systems data flows and data quality, and work proactively with appropriate staff to ensure identified problems are resolved.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment or fixed term contract. For secondments, you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract, you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position
As per Home Office guidelines, please be aware that, unfortunately, the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular position.
For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 23rd November 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to A level or NVQ level 3 Customer Service/ Business Admin /ITQ or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Team leader/management qualification
- Computer qualifications
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a busy clerical/office environment or reception service
- Administrative experience
- Prioritising, planning and organising own tasks
- Working within guidelines
- Experience of dealing with difficult situations and confrontations
- Data entry experience and documentation
- Advance use of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access
- Experience of producing documents to a high standard
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working in NHS
- Previous experience of working with medical records
- Recruitment and Selection of staff
- Experience of supervising staff
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of confidentiality and data protection
- Sound knowledge of office procedures
- Understanding of customer service
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the Trust including awareness of priorities
- Knowledge of Trust information systems
- Knowledge of Medical Terminology
- Awareness of NHS targets and Trust priorities
- Analytical and numeric skills
- A basic understanding of the NHS Cancer Plan, and Specifically its 31 and 62 day breach targets
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills including telephone, email, face to face
- Ability to organise and manage own time keeping to schedule and deadlines
- Ability to allocate and monitor work of others
- Ability to use own initiative and work autonomously
- Ability to demonstrate leadership skills
- Willing to take on/learn new skills
- Ability to show attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to adapt to change
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to store and safeguard confidential documents
- High degree of numeracy
- Use of software tools to query databases to manipulate and analyse data
- Ability to explain report trends and issues to non technical staff
- Familiarity with Databases
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of hospital administration systems
- Knowledge of medical terminology
- Experience of recording quality data
- Use of Crystal reporting or similar reporting packages
- Use of SQL query language
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nikoleta Spicer
- Job title
- Directorate Support Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 256803
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