Job Overview
We would love to hear from both clinicians and administrative staff if you have a passion for safety and governance and understand how this role can impact on the service we provide to our patients.
We are a progressive team and welcome new ideas. If you think that you have an analytical mind, good team spirit, IT skills, and great communication skills, then we would love to hear from you. We have been unsuccessful in previous recruitment and are waiting for the right person - could it be you?
If you have previously applied for this role within the last 3 months, please do not reapply.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be responsible for contributing to the provision of a first-class service to patients by ensuring the Directorate meets NHS clinical governance objectives and targets. This is a vital role that has a major impact on developing a clinical governance culture and ensuring patient safety. The postholder will work on a day-to-day basis with and be part of the patient safety team across all sites of the organisation.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first-class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work-life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours. We do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Risk Management experience/qualification
Desirable criteria
* At or working towards degree level in relevant studies
* NMC Registration or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
* Basic use of IT packages e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
* Experience of developing and delivering training
Desirable criteria
* Presentation skills, written and verbal
* Report writing skills
* Knowledge of Trust patient admission system
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Evidence of ongoing professional development
* Able to make logical operational decisions based on the current situation
* Excellent verbal and written skills with evidence of good quality report writing, logical problem solving, and analytical skills
* Ability to demonstrate a high degree of tact and diplomacy when dealing with highly sensitive, confidential, or emotive information
* Able to undertake appraisal process to ensure staff development
* Ability to monitor/manage databases
* Understand Clinical Governance, Patient Safety and Quality processes
Desirable criteria
* Recent experience of working in relevant specialty
* Understanding of risk assessment
* Experience of clinical audit/promoting quality issues within healthcare
* Able to influence and negotiate change
* Able to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate own and others training needs
* Identify potential personnel issues with team and initiate appropriate action
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
* Occasional requirement to exert moderate physical effort for several short periods
* Frequent requirement for concentration where work pattern is unpredictable
* Frequent exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances and occasional exposure to highly distressing/emotional circumstances
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
* We will expect your values and behaviours to mirror those of the Trust
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well-performing, well-led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as a £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state-of-the-art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users, and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together, and Facing the Future.
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