Child Health Information Service (CHIS) Specialist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
This CHIS Specialist role involves inputting data and performing crucial data quality checks to support Child Health service outputs. The post holder will follow systems to promote and improve data quality across Child Health services, while developing expertise in CHIS IT systems and assisting with data preparation and reporting. The Child Health Information Service provides an information system and clinical record for children's health and screening activities, ensuring key health and demographic information is up-to-date for health professionals and safeguarding.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date Child health data records and office management systems.
- Ensure Child Health data is effectively processed and quality assured according to NHS policies and procedures.
- Input and update information accurately via data entry onto RiO Access and word processing relating to children's birth details, vaccination, immunisation, pre-school, and school health data.
- Deal competently with queries from users and other agencies in a professional and efficient manner.
- Prioritise workload daily, liaising with team members to ensure service continuity.
- Respond to queries and requests for information as directed by office procedures, guidelines, and protocols, referring complex requests to management.
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 Business Administration or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to develop skills and complete further training
- Knowledge and Experience
- Higher level Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Microsoft Office systems and the internet
- Higher knowledge of NHS health information systems.
- Good knowledge and understanding of general office management systems and procedures.
- Experience of working with key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Setting up and using IT data collection formats and databases to produce reports for management information
- Proven experience in delivering a range of administration tasks to a high standard in a patient/service focused environment
- Good literacy and numeric skills
- Experience of working in a team
- Experience of the delivery of objectives within a constantly changing environment
- Understanding confidtiality and data protection legislation.
- RiO knowledge
- Basic supervisory experience
- Experience in an NHS / Medical services environment
- Knowledge of the Trust vision, values and strategic objectives
- Skills and Aptitudes
- Advanced keyboard skills for the regular use of computer systems
- Good interpersonal and communication skills with experience of dealing with people at a variety of levels
- Strong organisational skills- able to deliver agreed objectives within an agreed timeframe
- Ability to undertake training on department systems as required.
- Able to identify service improvements opportunities for consideration
- Able to recognise issues and difficult situations, referring to manager as required
- Ability to act on own initiative and independently within policies and procedures, referring to manager as required
- Advanced Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
- Demonstrate willingness to contribute to the delivery of an effective and efficient administrative service.
- Ability to work on own initiative and be a good team player
- Demonstrate ability to pay good attention to detail
- Reliably check and record data and identify anomalies
- Able to self-check completed work.
- Problem solving skills and excellent attention to detail
- Experience of dealing with customers
- Be willing to participate in the promotion of effective team working
- Be proactive in contributing to service improvement
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's values, e.g. put patients at the forefront of everything you do, making everyone feel special, showing kindness and respect and apologising when things go wrong
- Take personal responsibility, having the courage to challenge and continuously learning and improving, having pride in your team.
- Ability to work under pressure/meet deadlines whilst delivering high quality work
- Demonstrate a responsible, dependable, enthusiastic and honest character along with a caring and sensitive nature.
- To be responsible for own personal development and taking advantage of any appropriate training and development opportunities which would enhance the service.
- Committed to hitting targets and improving services.
- Act in ways that support equality and value diversity
- Ability to be flexible and to work in other areas throughout the Trust, as and when required in accordance with operational service needs.
- NVQ Level 3 Business Administration or equivalent
- Willingness to develop skills and complete further training
- Knowledge and Experience
- Higher level Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Microsoft Office systems and the internet
- Higher knowledge of NHS health information systems.
- Good knowledge and understanding of general office management systems and procedures.
- Experience of working with key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Setting up and using IT data collection formats and databases to produce reports for management information
- Proven experience in delivering a range of administration tasks to a high standard in a patient/service focused environment
- Good literacy and numeric skills
- Experience of working in a team
- Experience of the delivery
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Child Health Information Service (CHIS) Specialist
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
The CHIS Specialist post requires inputting data and carrying out crucial data quality checks that support the Child Health service outputs and following systems that promote & support the continued development and improvement of data quality across Child Health services. Whilst also developing expertise in CHIS IT systems (CHISS) and providing support to the preparation and presentation of data and reports.
Our Child Health Information Service deliver an information system and clinical record for individual children on childhood health and screening related activities, on behalf of Public Health England's Healthy Child Programme and children's countywide services, which includes Universal, Specialist Children and Community Paediatrics, screening and immunisation services. Ensuring that key information on a child's health, GPs, Schools and demographic information is up to date and available for health professionals involved in their care and for the use in the safeguarding of children.
The team work collaboratively across care settings, agencies and regions to ensure that children and young people in Cumbria receive all the care and services that they are entitled to, as well as providing a national population health
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