An exciting opportunity has arisen for a secondment within the surgical care group to support clinical governance and quality. This post will be for an initial 6-month period. We are hoping to appoint a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the existing governance team to support the ongoing governance and quality assurance. This individual must be a good team worker but also able to work independently to meet time deadlines. This is a varied role as the surgery care group covers many specialties. The surgical care group is varied, providing many services for our patients, offering lots of opportunities to learn and develop.
Main duties of the job
As a clinical governance facilitator, you will work closely within a small team to support the surgical care group in the management of patient safety & quality assurance. Day-to-day responsibilities will include supporting clinical staff with the management of Ulysses safeguards, patient safety investigations (using PSIRF framework), complaint responses, management of the Risk Register, and compliance around policies/NICE Guidelines/LoCsips etc.
You will need to build solid working relationships with clinical staff, Patient safety teams, and wider organisational colleagues. A key element of this role is to support the care group in identifying themes around harm, areas of good practices, and to give assurance to our patients and stakeholders that learning has been shared and actions, following learning can be demonstrated. Although this is an office-based role, with potential for optional working from home on occasion, the expectation is that the successful candidate will visit wards and departments to maintain visibility of the service.
The nominal base is yet to be confirmed. (DMH/UHND)
Please contact Kel Reed to discuss this opportunity.
About us
We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield, and Weardale as well as over 80 other community-based settings and providing care in patients' homes.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.
From April 1, 2024, we are unable to offer sponsorship for healthcare roles that do not meet the minimum salary. If you are in the UK on a VISA, please ensure you have no restrictions that would prevent you from taking this post.
Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will directly report to the Associate Director of Nursing who is the governance lead within the surgical care group.
The successful candidate will facilitate the quality and governance metrics for the care group in conjunction with ADN, Associate Director of Ops, and Clinical Director.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Relevant experience of the health service within a clinical governance/quality related discipline.
* Working in an appropriate manner with patient sensitive data.
* Understanding of National Health Service improvement methodologies including productive Series.
* Relevant experience in communicating and facilitating work streams with patients/carers.
* Working with risk management processes including patient safety, risk registers.
* Management of complex data streams and ability to analyse data.
Desirable
* Experience with supervising staff.
Special Requirements
Essential
* Trust wide working.
Qualifications
Essential
* Educated to degree level or equivalent demonstrable experience.
* Working knowledge of clinical governance and quality issues in health care.
* Knowledge of patient safety, clinical audit, patient experience, risk register processes.
Desirable
* Complaints procedure.
* Experience within NHS.
Special Skills and Knowledge
Essential
* IT skills (Excel/Word/Teams).
* To be able to work to deadlines.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Professionalism/Team worker.
* Adherence to IG principles.
* Report Writing.
* Attention to detail.
* Be able to handle sensitive data.
* Work to deadlines and prioritise work.
* Positive and motivated.
Employer details
Employer name
County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Darlington Memorial Hospital NHS Trust
Hollyhurst Road
Darlington
County Durham
DL3 6HX
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