Clinical Governance Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

You will work as part of the LIVES team leading on all clinical governance activity and supporting our external governance clients. Providing oversight and assurance of all clinical activity whether that be our volunteer Community First Responders, Medic Responders and Critical Care Teams or our Community Emergency Medicine services and external governance clients. Ultimately you will help ensure the patients we treat get the best possible care.

Job Description

As our Clinical Governance Manager you will be the person that ensures the care LIVES provide is not only safe, caring, effective, reactive to need and that we strive for excellence in all that we do. You will have a recent clinical background and a willingness to apply your experience and ideas within the leading emergency response charity in Lincolnshire.

You will be able to use a variety of reporting methods to tell our stories and demonstrate our clinical standards as an organisation to a wide range of audiences from Commissioners and grant funders to members of the public as well as our trustees and other colleagues.

Collaboration is a key part of the role requiring you to work closely with the Medical Director, Systems and Information Manager and other colleagues to ensure delivery of a comprehensive clinical audit programme. With the information from this, wider evidence and using your strong communication skills both written and verbal you will be able to identify and share ideas which we can use to improve our clinical services. You will enjoy working within an innovative motivated team who are always looking for new ways to meet the need of the Lincolnshire communities we serve.

You will work closely with colleagues within our Education team to ensure the training standards required to deliver excellent care are met. You will also jointly lead on regular Morbidity and Mortality reviews and sharing of good practice and learning from events.

You will be responsible for the internal investigation process, working with partner organisations where necessary. You will lead investigations and review processes to ensure the safety of patients, the wellbeing of staff and volunteers, and that learning is shared across the organisation. At LIVES we all believe a Just Culture is essential for our team to do the very best for their patients and you will be an exemplar of this.

You will use our teams collective expertise and experiences to support our external clinical governance clients to deliver safe and effective care in a range of industrial and emergency response systems across the country.

Most importantly, youll care - youll understand why LIVES is so important to the people of Lincolnshire and youll want to do everything you can to support our volunteers and your colleagues to keep our service clinically safe, effective and achieving the very best outcomes for our patients.

We believe it takes a team to save a life this role is a key part of that team!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• - Have no sanctions or restrictions to practice on your professional registration.
• - Have an up to date practice portfolio.
• - Be Level 3 qualified in Safeguarding Adults and Children (or willing to undertake training on appointment)
• - Hold a full UK Driving Licence with no more than 6 points.

Experience

Essential

• Have recent clinical exposure within an Emergency or Primary Care setting.
• Act with integrity at all times and do the right thing even when its difficult.
• Work within a busy multidisciplinary team with varied pressures requiring you to be flexible and problem solve.
• Have experience of chairing meetings, facilitating events and sharing learning.
• Have strong IT skills and be proficient in the use of standard Microsoft Office packages. A willingness to use technology to improve the way we work within the organisation is vital.
• Be able to plan your own workload and prioritise tasks. This requires excellent time management and organisational skills, and being able to work well both as part of a team and independently.
• Be comfortable communicating with people face to face, over the phone or email.
• Have to deal with sensitive or confidential information, the ability to maintain confidentiality is essential.
• Take a focused and considered approach to quality and patient safety.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

LIVES

Address

Boston Road Industrial Estate

Horncastle

Lincolnshire

LN9 6SB

Employer's website

https://lives.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)