Main area Quality Improvement / Governance / Learning from Deaths Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 223-SLD-659-A
Site The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital Town Shrewsbury Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 08/10/2024 23:59
Job overview
Are you an experienced individual who is passionate about quality improvement and promoting best practice within healthcare? Do you want to help make a difference for patients and their families promoting a positive culture of learning from deaths within the organisation? If so, we would love to hear from you! Ideally you will be a registered healthcare practitioner with a clinical background however applicants with a non-clinical background who have the appropriate experience are also encouraged to apply.
The successful candidate will need to be inspirational, motivated, and determined in their approach, enjoy a challenge and have a proven ability to positively influence others. As a member of a small team, you will provide expertise and leadership across the organisation, supporting the well-established mortality review process and wider learning from deaths programme of work, liaising with a variety of internal and external stakeholders at every level of seniority.
The post is based at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, although travel between hospital sites within the Trust may be required.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Senior Learning from Deaths Manager is crucial to help foster a culture of learning across the Trust to facilitate the delivery of outstanding care to patients who access our services. The post holder will play a pivotal role in ensuring that the Trust maintains a forward thinking approach to learning from deaths and maintains a focus on continuous improvement within the wider Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Agenda within the organisation.
Working for our organisation
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.
Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust's catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west, to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east. The main towns include: Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Whitchurch (in Shropshire); Newport, Telford and Wellington (in Telford & Wrekin); and Newtown and Welshpool (in Powys) - all beautiful and unique.
Our main service locations are The Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) in Shrewsbury which are located 20 minutes' drive apart. Together they provide 99% of our activity. Both hospitals provide a wide range of acute hospital services including accident & emergency, outpatients, diagnostics, inpatient medical care and critical care.
We also provide services such as consultant-led outreach clinics at the Wrekin Community Clinic, Telford, the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen and the Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Whitchurch Community Hospitals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the full duties and responsibilities of this post, please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.
Person specification
Qualifications
* BSc degree qualification or equivalent experience in a healthcare related discipline
* Clinical registration for example, NMC or AHP
Experience and Knowledge
* Knowledge of key performance indicators and compliance against quality, governance and risk agendas
* Knowledge of Quality Governance and Risk Management systems and processes
* Knowledge of the NHS and the improvement agenda, particularly in relation to service delivery
* Knowledge of the National Quality Board Learning from Deaths Guidance
* Knowledge of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)
Experience, skills and behaviours
* Experience in an operational managerial role within an NHS Trust or other complex healthcare environment
* Relevant experience working in a governance related role within the NHS or other complex healthcare environment.
* Proven performance management of services and delivery of targets within agreed timescales
* Experience of working collaboratively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders including those at a senior level
* Demonstrable experience of leading and effectively managing change in large complex environments
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Fiona Richards Job title Head of Learning from Deaths & Clinical Standards Email address fiona.richards8@nhs.net Telephone number 01743 261000
If you have problems applying, contact
Address The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Shrewsbury Business Park
1 Douglas Court
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6LG
Telephone 01743 492402
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