Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Manager

Job summary

To provide support to the Head of Clinical Effectiveness (HoCE) with management of the Trust's clinical audit and effectiveness programme.

The primary focus of the job will be to manage and support the Trust's clinical audit team and its delivery of key goals and objectives related to the Trust's clinical audit and clinical effectiveness programme. This post will report directly to the Head of Clinical Effectiveness (HoCE).

Main duties of the job

• Manage the Clinical Audit Management and Tracking (AMaT) system (or equivalent software); developing specialist knowledge for its use and becoming the subject expert that can provide support and training for its use.
• Provide support for the management of mortality and morbidity data and the Trust's learning from deaths programme.
• Help support and assist with wider adoption of the AMaT system in the future as/when other quality management modules are added.
• Supervise, mentor, train and line manage the clinical audit team to support individual and the teams' development, including staff appraisals and CPD.
• Work with the clinical audit team to increase engagement with the divisions.
• Help prepare and present clinical audit/NICE and clinical effectiveness progress and assurance reports.
• Work with relevant stakeholders to lead and implement the clinical audit forward plan and strategy through project design, analysis, report preparation, dissemination of series of audits, action planning of all aspects of the audit cycle.
• Plan, implement, and facilitate allocated audit and clinical effectiveness projects.
• Support data collection and undertaking specific audits/projects as requested by the HoCE. For instance, CQUINs, 7-Day Service Assessments, and preparing/collating data for the Trust's Annual Quality Accounts

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk