Data Capturer

About the Role

Wits Health Consortium is offering a Data Capturer position on a 12-month contract to gain hands-on experience in health data management. The role focuses on accurately and timely data capture into electronic records while maintaining high data quality through regular checks and cleaning. It supports reliable healthcare data for research, reporting, and patient care outcomes. What You'll Do

• Create and capture new patient files.

• Capture blood results received from the laboratory.

• Identify missing data, inconsistencies and errors and follow-up or report on missing data or errors.

• Refer administrative support to the Project co-ordinator.

• Compile and generate relevant reports.

• Maintain and update patient files.

• Perform daily data cleaning and quality control checks.

• Check the accuracy of manually captured data.

• Check and compare patient history and data.

• Resolve discrepancies and queries with relevant parties.

• Print relevant documentation and file it in patient files.

• Accurately and timeously capture data for assigned research studies.

• Clean data based on error reports for assigned research studies.

• Ensure research activities are completed within allocated time frames. What We're Looking For

• Grade 12 / Matric certificate.

• Minimum of 1 year's experience in Data capturing or Administration.

• Good administrative skills together with working knowledge of Microsoft Office and database packages.

• Demonstrated data capturing speed and accuracy.

• Good attention to detail.

• Ability to meet deadlines.

• Good communication skills.

• Self-motivated and able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.