Head of Data Quality & Establishment Control


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£75,328 to £86,114 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Denmark Hill, SE5 8AD
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	7 Oct 2026
Closing date:	21 Oct 2026

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Summary

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.

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