Head of Data Quality & Establishment Control

• Be the senior Trust lead for ESR, ensuring effective governance, optimisation and strategic use of the system across the organisation.
• Provide expert leadership on ESR functionality and its relationship with workforce, payroll, recruitment, learning, rostering, finance and other corporate systems.
• Ensure appropriate arrangements are in place for the management of ESR releases, upgrades, elective changes, testing and implementation, with risks and dependencies clearly understood and managed.
• Ensure that significant system configuration changes are subject to appropriate impact assessment,testing, approval, documentation and change control.
• Provide strategic leadership and corporate ownership of the Trusts Establishment Control framework, ensuring robust integration between workforce and financial controls.
• Develop and maintain a clear Trust-wide Establishment Control policy and associated processes, setting out responsibilities, approval routes, controls, service standards and escalation arrangements.
• Work in close partnership with senior Finance, Recruitment, Payroll, Workforce and operationalcolleagues to ensure that funded workforce establishments are accurately reflected within ESR.
• Provide strategic oversight and governance of ESR workstructures and organisational hierarchies across the Trust.
• Ensure organisational structures within ESR are designed and maintained in a way that supports accurate workforce and financial reporting and aligns, wherever appropriate, with the Trustsorganisational and financial structures.
• Establish Trust-wide standards for the creation and maintenance of organisations, positions, jobs, grades, locations, cost centre mappings and associated structural information within ESR.

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of knowledge and experience relevant to workforce systems, workforce information, HR technology, informatics or a related field
• Chartered Member of the CIPD (or willingness to gain this registration within 12 months of appointment)
• Masters level qualification or equivalent knowledge and experience

Essential

• Substantial senior experience of leading workforce, People or HR systems within a large and complex organisation
• Significant Project Management experience with a track record of bring innovations to operational reality
• Highly developed specialist knowledge of the Electronic Staff Record (ESR), including its role within core NHS workforce processes
• Experience of identifying and resolving significant ESR/workforce data-quality issues through structured improvement programmes
• Strong understanding of the relationship between ESR, Finance, Payroll, Recruitment, Rostering and other workforce systems

Essential

• Ability to understand, manipulate and analyse electronic HR data and present appropriately.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and familiar with the concepts of relational databases.
• Experience of communicating with a wide range of people on complex issues and/or in complex situations.