Job summary
Are you ready to make a significant impact on patient safety and care quality? Join us in our mission to deliver excellence in everything we do!
Join us at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), where every day, our teams save lives and improve health outcomes. As the largest employer in Nottinghamshire we serve over 2.5 million residents and are renowned for our dedication to excellence in healthcare across a diverse range of services.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and innovative lead for Governance, Quality and Safety to drive continuous improvement across our Neonatal Services.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
Lead the implementation and maintenance of quality and safety systems across the Neonatal Service.
Provide expert leadership to ensure compliance with the highest standards of quality and patient safety.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to identify quality improvement and governance training needs.
Support the investigation of events, learning response and subsequent implementation of recommendation and actions.
Support the Trust implementation of PSIRF ensuring the principles of compassionate engagement and a just and restorative culture support learning and improvement.
Drive transformational work to support continuous assessment, monitoring and improvement in healthcare delivery, providing support and oversight for the directorate team members.
Contribute to the directorate management team by reporting on regulatory compliance, assurance, learning and quality improvement initiatives.
Close working and liaison with multidisciplinary professionals to ensure triangulation of information and intelligence across the service, division and Trust. This is fundamental to support our teams to deliver the best service in a busy, multi-site Neonatal Service providing care to families living in a broad and varied social demographic.
About us
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- oPractitioner Registered with appropriate regulatory body (NMC. HCPC, GPC)
- oRelevant degree
- oEvidence of study at or working towards masters level qualification
- oUp to date knowledge of: clinical audit and effectiveness processes, patient safety and non- clinical risk, risk assessment, data analysis, interpreting and working NICE guidance, National and Royal College Service Frameworks., assurance processes within the NHS i.e. CQC & NHS Resolution, patient/carer feedback processes
- oKnowledge and competency in MS Office
- oAbility to produce graphs charts and cross tabulations
- oHave experience of using incident management database
Desirable
- Serious incident Management Investigation
- Risk Management Training
- Knowledge of human factors approach to incident investigations
Experience
Essential
- Significant clinical experience
- Change management
- Service improvement
- Risk management processes
- Incident reporting, investigation and analysis
- Experience of developing and implementing quality strategies
- Able to demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement
Desirable
- Previous leadership experience Professional leadership/ management qualification
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse clinical information, organisational processes and proposed projects and to recommend the best course of action
- Knowledge of and communicate relevant Government and Trust policy / strategy
- Ability to judge how Clinical Effectiveness fits into the wider Governance agenda
- Ability to identify problems and quickly report/act on them and support teams/individuals to find solutions
Planning and organisation skills
Essential
- oAble to work to, negotiate & co- ordinate deadlines in a variety of teams to meet local, Trust and National targets
- oTime Management skills including the ability to prioritise, plan and manage a large workload
- oAbility to work to variable work patterns that meet needs of the service and the wider divisional governance agenda
- oGood organisational skills
- oAble to work on own initiative
Physical skills
Essential
- oAbility to carry out clinical shifts when required
- oLift and move patients, and loads
- oKeyboards skills
Other requirements specific to the role
Essential
- Demonstrate resilience in relation to organisational working and with supporting teams/individuals following patient safety incidents
Communication and relationship skills
Essential
- Proven ability to negotiate, persuade, influence, motivate and gain the respect of other healthcare professionals
- Ability to communicate complex information to colleagues in a clear and precise manner
- Good presentation skills to support team training
- Ability to manage contentious and sensitive information and must be able to handle this information appropriately/sensitively
- Manage and lead those staff who report to them
- Work within trust Human Resource policies in managing self and others
- Ability to manage professional conflict within teams
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- oPractitioner Registered with appropriate regulatory body (NMC. HCPC, GPC)
- oRelevant degree
- oEvidence of study at or working towards masters level qualification
- oUp to date knowledge of: clinical audit and effectiveness processes, patient safety and non- clinical risk, risk assessment, data analysis, interpreting and working NICE guidance, National and Royal College Service Frameworks., assurance processes within the NHS i.e. CQC & NHS Resolution, patient/carer feedback processes
- oKnowledge and competency in MS Office
- oAbility to produce graphs charts and cross tabulations
- oHave experience of using incident management database
Desirable
- Serious incident Management Investigation
- Risk Management Training
- Knowledge of human factors approach to incident investigations
Experience
Essential
- Significant clinical experience
- Change management
- Service improvement
- Risk management processes
- Incident reporting, investigation and analysis
- Experience of developing and implementing quality strategies
- Able to demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement
Desirable
- Previous leadership experience Professional leadership/ management qualification
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse clinical information, organisational processes and proposed projects and to recommend the best course of action
- Knowledge of and communicate relevant Government and Trust policy / strategy
- Ability to judge how Clinical Effectiveness fits into the wider Governance agenda
- Ability to identify problems and quickly report/act on them and support teams/individuals to find solutions
Planning and organisation skills
Essential
- oAble to work to, negotiate & co- ordinate deadlines in a variety of teams to meet local, Trust and National targets
- oTime Management skills including the ability to prioritise, plan and manage a large workload
- oAbility to work to variable work patterns that meet needs of the service and the wider divisional governance agenda
- oGood organisational skills
- oAble to work on own initiative
Physical skills
Essential
- oAbility to carry out clinical shifts when required
- oLift and move patients, and loads
- oKeyboards skills
Other requirements specific to the role
Essential
- Demonstrate resilience in relation to organisational working and with supporting teams/individuals following patient safety incidents
Communication and relationship skills
Essential
- Proven ability to negotiate, persuade, influence, motivate and gain the respect of other healthcare professionals
- Ability to communicate complex information to colleagues in a clear and precise manner
- Good presentation skills to support team training
- Ability to manage contentious and sensitive information and must be able to handle this information appropriately/sensitively
- Manage and lead those staff who report to them
- Work within trust Human Resource policies in managing self and others
- Ability to manage professional conflict within teams
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).