Clinical Governance and Patient Safety Matron

Job summary

The post holder will operationally lead day to day coordination of the Neonatal and Children's (Child Health) services within the Care Group's Governance, Patient Safety and Quality agendas which is led by the Head of Nursing. You will be responsible for coordinating and further shaping, monitoring, collating and advising on all aspects of quality, patient safety, experience and risk management.

As a team we are working hard to ensure we put Children and Young People at the heart of everything we do. We are on an exciting improvement journey and can offer you a rewarding, and supportive role within our Child Health service,

We are offering a Governance Matron role working with staff of all disciplines in our Children and Young People services to ensure patient safety. As a Matron in our team, you will have the opportunity to take a lead role in line with your personal development plans.

Main duties of the job

You will gather, analyse and interpret information in order to provide reports for Child Health to the Care Group Quality, Patient Safety, Patient Experience and Risk Meeting and Care Group Governance Board (as appropriate) in respect of key quality, risk and patient safety and experience indicators. This also entails having an active role in the Care Group's Quality Safety, Patient Experience and Risk Meetings and Performance Meetings that the Care Group operates.

You will act as a resource for Child Health in relation to Clinical Quality, Patient Safety and Governance issues. A close working relationship with the Corporate team is required so that you can source expert advice and guidance when necessary. The role consists of facilitating the investigation of serious incidents, internal investigations and complaints in accordance with Trust policies and procedures and ensure that lessons are learned are implemented and embedded.

The post also has a key role in ensuring compliance across Child Health to the CQC fundamental standards and standards of other regulators and professional bodies. This will entail working closely with the Corporate quality improvement and transformation teams.

A key theme will be to assist the Head of Nursing to embed Safety and Quality development and learning from audits, serious incidents and complaints.

About us

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with fivehospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

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Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above