Employer: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Freeman Hospital
Town: 317 01 Freeman Hospital
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/11/2024 23:59
Interview date: 05/12/2024
Clinical Governance and Patient Safety Lead
Band 7
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under-represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
Are you ready to take the next step in your career and join our dynamic team in this newly created exciting opportunity within the board of Surgery and Associated specialties at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals?
We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated, dynamic person who is passionate about improving patient care and clinical outcomes by ensuring quality and safety is an integral part of the patient pathway. We are looking for a candidate with knowledge of risk management, audit and quality improvement and who is passionate about quality and safety to become a patient safety lead within the clinical board.
The patient safety lead will bring clinical leadership experience and excellent interpersonal skills to support the delivery of our clinical board quality and safety strategy. The patient safety lead will work closely with the Medical Quality and Safety Lead and Head of Nursing in collaboration with key stakeholders across the board and wider trust facilitating the delivery of the patient safety incident framework. As part of this process it is essential that we develop a robust approach to shared learning across the board, linking with all staff groups. The patient safety lead will play a key role in strengthening our approach to learning for improvement.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator and an ambassador for high quality patient care. It is essential that you bring a flexible and adaptable approach to meet the exciting challenge of this role, supporting the multi-professional team in enhancing quality and improving the patient experience.
* To focus on patient safety by working with all services within the Clinical Board to promote and create a culture of openness, transparency and collaboration
* To support the delivery of the quality and safety agenda within the clinical board
* As a key member of the Quality Oversight Group (QOG) for the Clinical Board, facilitate learning and continual improvement in response to concerns raised, incidents and complaints and in doing so create a culture of shared learning
* Provide leadership, guidance and support across the Board on all patient safety and clinical governance issues
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Work with all services within the Clinical Board to promote and create a culture of openness, transparency and collaboration, including ensuring compliance with duty of candour and being open.
* Promote a culture of incident reporting and support investigations into adverse events, incidents, and near misses, identifying systems issues, implementing corrective actions, and facilitating local and organizational learning.
* Participate in and support the embedding of PSIRF within and across the Clinical Board.
* In conjunction with and on behalf of the Medical Quality and Safety Lead, Head of Nursing and CGARD Clinical Board representatives, support the development of a robust patient safety and clinical governance framework within the Board to ensure the provision of safe and high-quality care.
* Collaborate with Quality and Safety leads, Head of Nursing and Matrons within the board and other stakeholders to champion patient safety initiatives and drive continuous improvement.
* As a key member of the Quality Oversight Group (QOG) for the Clinical Board, facilitate learning and continual improvement in response to concerns raised, incidents and complaints. Sharing local learning within the Board and contributing to Trust wide learning forums e.g. Patient Safety Briefings.
* Assist in the development of cross cutting policies, procedures, and guidelines that promote a culture of patient safety, risk identification and mitigation throughout the Clinical Board.
* Understand the highest risks facing the Clinical Board and the potential mitigating actions being put in place to address these.
* In conjunction with the Head of Nursing, Medical Quality and Safety Lead, Matron, clinical governance and audit leads for the Clinical Board advise on all aspects of clinical governance, clinical risk management and patient safety.
* As an integral part of the Clinical Board QOG, facilitate, develop and co-ordinate clinical risk management within the Board. Foster a just culture in line with the corporate objectives, resulting in the delivery of a high-quality, cost-effective service.
* Promote a positive learning environment where lessons are learnt and changes implemented to ensure a quality service working in partnership with the Director of Operations, Clinical Board Chair, Head of Nursing, Matron and Clinical Directors.
* To work closely with colleagues to raise the profile of clinical governance and risk management, highlighting in practice the relationship between patient safety and the management and everyday clinical practice and the effects on the patient to identify areas of good practice and highlight areas that can be improved.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
* Degree level qualification and evidence of CPD
* Post-graduate qualification to Masters level or significant experience in clinical practice, involvement in developing practice, clinical risk management and/or clinical audit/QI
* Qualification or CPD relevant to patient safety/clinical governance/quality improvement
* Masters level qualification in a related topic
Knowledge & Experience
* Proven experience in a clinical leadership role including involvement in incident reporting and investigation
* In depth knowledge of clinical governance frameworks, QI methodologies and patient safety principles
* Evidence of continuous professional and personal development
* Project leadership
* Production of written work to a high standard within tight deadlines
* Evidence of leading programme/programmes of education and/or training
Skills & Abilities
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in person and written
* Analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends and lead data driven improvement initiatives
* Presentation skills, computer use including word processing, Excel and database
Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.
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