SEND Data Quality Officer – Education - Triumph Consultants Limited : Job Details

What's involved with this role: Interim SEND Data Quality Officer – Education Bristol 5260657 Enhanced DBS required for this roleKey Requirements:

• Recognised qualification to a minimum of level 3 or equivalent experience.
• Experience using System-C is highly desirable.
• Significant experience of working in health, social care or education environment and working in partnership with children, young people and their families, particularly those with special educational needs and/or disability.
• Good knowledge of all relevant current legislation e.g. SEND Code of Practice and Children and Families Act.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working with data, including ensuring the integrity of the data and cleaning bad data.

The successful candidate will work closely with the project team and service officers to manually cleanse the data in use on the council’s education systems. This will involve rectifying errors, matching tasks, and contacting officers and educational establishments to clarify details. The successful candidate will work closely with, and be supported by, the project team throughout their appointment.The role is crucial in supporting the overall improvement of the quality of the data in use in the SEND service.Key Responsibilities:

• Undertaking manual cleansing of the EYES and EHM education management systems. This will involve checking records to ascertain their accuracy, adding in missing details and removing system ‘conflicts.
• Engaging with service officers to assess and determine the accuracy of the records of the learners they case manage.
• Escalating complex errors to the project team for resolution.
• Contacting and working with schools, when required, to determine the accuracy of records they send via the live data feed.
• Promote data cleansing best practice with service staff.
• Analyse the causes of data quality issues through the cleansing process, sharing these with project team.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work.  It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address.Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and exact job title.If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please