ICNARC Clerk

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team to ensure the ongoing development of the ICNARC and CCMDS database system, ensuring accuracy and validity of the care organisation data submission.

You will require a proactive and dynamic approach to data analysis and reporting, ensuring key quality indicators on all documentation is accurately recorded and inputted, and where may issues arise, that this is escalated to the lead consultant / nurse / clinical director and/or directorate manager as applicable.

In addition, you will provide assistance to the clinical director and critical care consultants in the co-ordination of the biweekly M&M and MDT meeting; this will include recording actions and outcomes and national data collection, and other data collection identified by the MDT.

Main duties of the job

• Timely and accurate submissions of data to ICNARC and CCMDS database systems. Ensuring knowledge and expertise is used to interpret data and ensure its accuracy before submission.
• To retrieve raw data from a variety of sources, including medical records and hospital information systems for the purpose of data analysis, reporting and presenting at national, regional and Alliance level.
• Provide clinical and management teams with reports and analysis that ensures benchmarking is undertaken and key quality indicators for critical care nationally are addressed.
• Support the clinical teams with project developments and report generation from the Medicus database and CCMDS to ensure benchmarking and achieving key quality indicators are achieved. All patient data will be handled with utmost sensitivity following data protection guidelines and also the organisations information governance policies.
• Support the clinical teams with timely data retrieval and submission of reports and teaching material to the critical care team. Acting as a bridge between clinical teams and data systems.
• Facilitation of and attendance to the fortnightly MDT and Mortality & Morbidity meetings ensuring they run effectively and have the necessary information required to function. This includes reporting and maintaining all related documentation and information and ensuring team decisions are recorded accurately onto designated programs.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.