East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
The Clinical Audit & Improvement Facilitator supports the development and implementation of the clinical audit improvement programmes through facilitation of clinical audit projects to meet local and national objectives, and sharing of learning.
This post holder will be a team player, able to work with care groups and divisional leads to coordinate and lead on clinical audit and improvement projects.
They will promote clinical audit within the Trust via training and awareness, ensuring the Trust stays up to date with guidance changes.
This role is pivotal in providing the evidence of EKHUFT clinical, assisting to capture where improvements are needed.
Main duties of the job
The EKHUFT Clinical Audit & Improvement Team supports clinical audit & other related quality activities within East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
It is the philosophy of the service to provide a consistently high level of facilitation and support to all health and social care professionals.
You will need to have the ability to manage a number of clinical audit projects on a day to day basis to help deliver a significant clinical audit programme in collaboration with clinicians and executive colleagues within the Corporate Nursing department. This will be challenging, but rewarding.
We are therefore looking for a well-motivated individual, with sound decision making and negotiation skills, and who has the ability to work as a clinical audit specialist and decide how project outcomes can be best achieved.
We positively promote flexible working practices with agile working arrangements available, and to ensure that our workforce reflects the population we serve, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community.
Job responsibilities
1. Facilitate and manage an annual programme of clinical audits allocated to the post holder, ensuring the programme meets local and national requirements for assigned specialities.
2. Work with Care Groups to ensure clinical audit work programmes are in place and completed, and recommendations are embedded to improve practice.
3. Co-ordinate and lead on clinical audit and improvement projects to meet external requirements e.g. CQC, National Clinical Audit etc.
4. Work closely with Clinical Audit Leads to embed processes and completion of clinical audits within Care Groups, escalating where projects are failing to progress or have been abandoned without formal closure.
5. Support Care Groups in the development and implementation of clinical audit projects, including action planning, using Trust approved processes.
6. Liaise and communicate with all levels of healthcare professionals including managers ensuring opportunities for clinical audit are identified, pursued and supported.
7. Facilitate multi-disciplinary groups within specialities to plan and oversee clinical audit projects.
8. Analyse and interpret a range of complex data and facts and report the findings in a variety of formats suitable for the particular audience associated with the individual audit projects.
9. Demonstrate the ability to employ a range of alternative methods, including the use of modern technology, to deliver well planned and effective clinical audit projects.
10. Assist assigned specialities to identify improvements to patient care through the clinical audit programme.
11. Participate in the development and delivery of education programs to inform Trust staff about clinical audit and improvement.
12. Ensure compliance with the Trusts Risk Management Policies and Procedures.
13. Collaborate across the Clinical Audit Team to share learning and identify trends and themes for future focus.
14. Maintain records within the central clinical audit database and produce reports for various Trust Groups/Committees (i.e. Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Committee, Care Group meetings, Quality and Safety Committee, IAGC) and within Trust publications (Annual Quality Report, RiskWise).
15. Co-ordinate the review and implementation of NICE guidance.
16. Undertake/facilitate various aspects of the audit and improvement process: identification of standards, define aims & objectives, audit methodology and sample design of data collection tools and surveys, data collection, database design, data analysis, reporting and presentation of results, action planning, change implementation, re-audit.
17. Attend designated Care Group audit/Clinical Governance meetings as appropriate.
18. Support Trust clinical audit training and fully participate in seminars and workshops to enhance clinical audit across the Trust.
19. Keep up to date with NHS policies and guidance.
20. Respond to new NICE guidance contacting relevant clinicians to determine whether the Trust is compliant if the service/care is provided.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to Degree level or relevant experience.
Experience
* Experience in project Management.
* Experience of clinical audit, research or other quality improvement processes.
Knowledge
* Awareness of current NHS strategies and initiatives.
* Numerate with understanding of basic statistics.
* Computer literate with knowledge of word processing and data handling.
* Knowledge of change management strategies.
Skills
* Computer skills - e.g. Microsoft office.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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