Main area Clinical Audit Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (4 days per week) Job ref 210-2025-188
Employer Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Victoria House, Ellesmere Port Hospital Town Ellesmere Port Salary £29,970 - £36,483 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 11/04/2025 23:59 Interview date 18/04/2025
Clinical Audit Facilitator
Band 5
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, staff pride themselves on not only leading through clinical excellence, but also by creating an environment where all staff are valued and appreciated. To achieve this, the Trust has embarked on an exciting new strategy focused on continuous improvement.
Our vision is to improve the lives of our community and provide excellence in healthcare, through partnership and innovation.
Our High Performance Culture will support everyone to be the best version of themselves by being true to our Trust vision, values and behaviours.
We welcome applications from colleagues from our local and neighbouring communities of all backgrounds and identities, who are currently under-represented within our region such as Black, Asian, Minority ethnic and those with disabilities.
Job overview
Working Part time : 30 hours per week
To play an active role in implementing the Trust’s Clinical Audit Plan throughout the Trust.
To advise and assist clinicians and other Health Care Professionals with collating, analysing, preparing and presenting data from a variety of hospital information sources for Clinical Audit. To generally contribute to the promotion of Clinical Audit within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
1. To assist with the implementation of the Trust’s Clinical Audit Plan throughout the Trust.
2. To support and facilitate and formally present audit outcomes at multi-disciplinary Clinical Audit Management groups in nominated Directorates.
3. To advise, co-ordinate and implement Divisional Clinical Audit Programmes.
4. To develop strategies and action plans for audit activity and ensure completion of planning and reporting requirements within the specified timetable.
5. To advise Clinicians on the feasibility of proposed Audits.
6. To retrieve and summarise relevant information for Clinical Audit from the appropriate source(s) eg Networking with other Departments/Trusts, Intranet, Internet, Hospital Information Systems, Datix system, etc.
7. In collaboration with Trust staff initiate, design, plan, develop, format and implement audits and maintain information systems to record data for audit purposes.
8. To analyse and present data from completed clinical audit projects making practical recommendations and providing advice for changes in practice to improve patient care as appropriate meeting deadlines.
Working for our organisation
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
* The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
* Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
* Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to BTEC, Diploma or equivalent knowledge / experience 1st level Degree.
Knowledge and Experience
* Significant previous experience in Clinical Audit / Research / Evaluation.
Skills and Abilities
* Understanding of the Quality Accounts.
* Understanding of Clinical Audit methodologies.
* High degree of computer literacy particularly MS Word, Access, Excel and PowerPoint.
* Knowledge of hospital information systems/Datix system.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
If the role is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name Amanda Sadler Job title Head of Clinical Audit Email address Amanda.sadler2@nhs.net Telephone number 07809686959 Additional information
Please contact Amanda Sadler for further information/ informal meeting.
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