Job Description

Data Entry Specialist (Temp)

Contract: November 2025

Salary: £13.90 per hour

Location: Canary Wharf, London

This is a temporary contract role until the end of the November for an Data Specialist role with an immediate start date (Compliance dependant) for a three-month duration offering a hybrid work setting and a London location (Canary Wharf).

Both Temporary Workers will work as Data Entry Specialists on the Abortion Notification Service (ANS) at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). Under the Abortion Act 1967, the Chief Medical Officer must be notified of an abortion within 14 days via a HSA4 form. In this role, Temporary Workers will be part of the team working to process and enter paper HSA4 forms to support monitoring compliance with the Abortion Act and the preparation of datasets for the Abortion Statistics Team.

They will be trained on how to use our data processing systems and the safe use of equipment such as a guillotine, scanner, and shredder. They will work alongside four experienced Data Entry Specialists and will be part of a friendly and supportive wider team. The role is office-based in order to process paper forms. The team are based at 10 South Colonnade in Canary Wharf, London and the post holder will need to travel to this location.

They will follow guidance documents and exercise some independent judgement in carrying out instructions, under general supervision. The post holder is likely to be involved in all stages of processing paper HSA4 forms, including but not limited to:
* Sorting parcels containing paper HSA4 forms and visually checking forms for errors
* Using a guillotine to cut the HSA4 forms to size, ready for scanning into our Abortion Notification System
* Scanning HSA4 forms.
* Reviewing electronic forms that have been created from the scanned images to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
* Checking missing details on HSA4 forms.
* Shredding HSA4 forms once they have been processed

Key Skills and Experience:
* Some prior experience of administrative roles and/or processing and entering data.
* Good attention to detail
* Good teamwork and communication skills
* Ability to work at pace.
* Experience of using Microsoft Office and learning to use different IT systems

Brook Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you.

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.