Job summary
Exciting opportunity to join the Surgery Division Quality and Safety Team for a permanent full time post as a Clinical Governance Facilitator.
You will join a well established team Surgery Quality and Safety team and have opportunity to oversee and support specialties within the Surgery Division with governance.
The role will give you insight into all aspects of governance with involvement in incident management, risks, preparation of action plans for inquests and identifying shared learning for the division.
You will work closely with the Harm Free Care Nurses and provide deep dive analysis of data to inform shared learning and support improving standards of care and new ways of working to ensure quality and safety are met for our patients .
The Surgery Specialties are within 3 Directorate and you will work with a group of specialties across the Directorate with the Harm Free Care Nurses.
Main duties of the job
Surgery Division Quality and Safety Team
Band 5 Clinical Governance Facilitator
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Surgery Division Quality and Safety Team for a Band 5 Clinical Governance Facilitator.
The Clinical Governance Facilitator will support the Surgery Division in the coordination of all aspects of quality and patient safety across the Division. You will work with the Specialty Management Teams , Specialty Governance Leads, Matrons, Harm Free Care Nurses and Specialty General Managers to embed the quality and patient safety agenda throughout all the specialties with the Division.
You will need to have excellent communication skills and be able to convey information to all levels of staff. It is essential to have good IT skills to be able to record, analyse data to show where improvements are required for the Specialty Governance Teams in the Division. The role requires you to be able to use trust systems to review risks and incidents and escalate potential issues of patient safety appropriately.
About us
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.
You will work within the surgery quality and safety team supporting 4 directorate of different surgical specialties.
The quality and safety team includes 4 x Governance Facilitators, 4 Harm Free Care Nurses, a Quality and Safety matron, Deputy Divisional Governance Consultant and an Assistant Divisional Nurse for Quality and Safety we further have support from an apprentice in the team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide support for the specialty teams within directorate across the Division in the delivery of an effective Clinical Governance agenda.Facilitate and support the development of annual clinical governance programmes within the Division and to ensure all staff groups can contribute to the development of clinical governanceprogrammes.
Identify priorities for action, taking account of national and local priorities, such as national reports and guidance papers e.g. Care Quality Commission Standards, NSFs, NICE guidance etc.Ensure that clinical governance programmes reflect key areas for action, including those identified through risk assessment & management, complaints, service user feedback, clinical audit and research.Provide regular updates to the Division on progress made in the delivery of the annual clinical governance programme and specific activities, making them aware of potential problems or obstacles.Support and encourage staff to undertake clinical audit based on the results of complaints, critical incidents, risk management issues and/or evidence of effectiveness, ensuring a unified approach across sites, and utilising results to change practice where this is indicated.
Contribute new ideas to develop clinical governance within the Division and the work of the clinical governance support team.
Understanding the value of information and how data may be turned into business intelligence and used to solve problems.
Produce reports, activity and trend analysis data for the Division on a regular basis, adhering to Divisional, Trust and national deadlines.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide support for the specialty teams within directorate across the Division in the delivery of an effective Clinical Governance agenda.Facilitate and support the development of annual clinical governance programmes within the Division and to ensure all staff groups can contribute to the development of clinical governanceprogrammes.
Identify priorities for action, taking account of national and local priorities, such as national reports and guidance papers e.g. Care Quality Commission Standards, NSFs, NICE guidance etc.Ensure that clinical governance programmes reflect key areas for action, including those identified through risk assessment & management, complaints, service user feedback, clinical audit and research.Provide regular updates to the Division on progress made in the delivery of the annual clinical governance programme and specific activities, making them aware of potential problems or obstacles.Support and encourage staff to undertake clinical audit based on the results of complaints, critical incidents, risk management issues and/or evidence of effectiveness, ensuring a unified approach across sites, and utilising results to change practice where this is indicated.
Contribute new ideas to develop clinical governance within the Division and the work of the clinical governance support team.
Understanding the value of information and how data may be turned into business intelligence and used to solve problems.
Produce reports, activity and trend analysis data for the Division on a regular basis, adhering to Divisional, Trust and national deadlines.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Communication
Essential
- verbal and non verbal communication
- Good Computer Skills
Desirable
Data analysis
Essential
- Data presentation & IT skills
Desirable
- Able to produce comprehensive reports
Planning
Essential
- Plan and manage large work load that can be varied
Desirable
- Able to meet deadlines
- Balancing conflicting priorities
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Communication
Essential
- verbal and non verbal communication
- Good Computer Skills
Desirable
Data analysis
Essential
- Data presentation & IT skills
Desirable
- Able to produce comprehensive reports
Planning
Essential
- Plan and manage large work load that can be varied
Desirable
- Able to meet deadlines
- Balancing conflicting priorities
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).