Job summary
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a senior nurse or midwife with neonatal experience to join our Governance and Training team at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
The successful candidate will be motivated and enthusiastic, and will join our team as a Neonatal Governance Manager and will work closely with the Governance Lead for Maternity and Neonates and the other members of the Governance Team playing an integral part in supporting the system-wide perinatal quality and safety agenda.
We are looking for a compassionate and approachable nurse or midwife whose role will be to achieve consistency of practice, high standards of care and innovation with a strong patient safety focus. Engagement with staff is key, ensuring service changes are clearly communicated and embedded in practice.
Main duties of the job
You will play a pivotal role within the governance and training team, working closely with members of the multi-disciplinary team across the neonatal speciality as well as the maternity team and wider teams within the trust. You will take the lead on service and quality improvement in clinical governance and risk management, alongside the wider Governance Team within the Women's and Children's Division, to enable a joint focus on keeping women and babies safe and at the centre of the care provided.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The governance nurse manager will be responsible for
ensuring the co-ordination of evidence-based guidelines (including SOPS, guidelines
and patient information leaflets), the clinical audit programme and
coproduction of services within the Childrens Directorate, specifically,
Neonatal Services.
There is potential scope for further development and responsibility within this role.
Please see the job description for further detail.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The governance nurse manager will be responsible for
ensuring the co-ordination of evidence-based guidelines (including SOPS, guidelines
and patient information leaflets), the clinical audit programme and
coproduction of services within the Childrens Directorate, specifically,
Neonatal Services.
There is potential scope for further development and responsibility within this role.
Please see the job description for further detail.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Graduate level of education and/or relevant professional qualification, or significant governance experience within the NHS.
- Evidence of continued learning or professional development.
- Teaching qualification or appropriate level of teaching/presentation experience.
- Active registration as a healthcare professional.
- Neonatal QIS qualification
Desirable
- Masters level qualification (or working towards same)
- Certificate in leadership and Team skills (or working towards)
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience within an associated specialty within clinical governance.
- Relevant experience in clinical governance within a medium to large NHS organisation.
- Supervisory Management Role.
- Experience of the clinical governance function within healthcare.
- Experience of involvement in clinical audit.
- Experience of working closely with clinicians of varying seniority.
- Experience of analysing problems and identifying solutions.
- Experience of using Windows based software.
- Proven track record of delivering clinical governance objectives in line with organisational strategy.
- Understanding of and working experience of process mapping.
- A track record in delivering presentations and developing and delivering training.
- Development and use of information systems to support change.
Desirable
- Experience of using clinical outcomes systems.
- Ability to concentrate for long periods of time while analysing data and producing reports /trackers
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Graduate level of education and/or relevant professional qualification, or significant governance experience within the NHS.
- Evidence of continued learning or professional development.
- Teaching qualification or appropriate level of teaching/presentation experience.
- Active registration as a healthcare professional.
- Neonatal QIS qualification
Desirable
- Masters level qualification (or working towards same)
- Certificate in leadership and Team skills (or working towards)
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience within an associated specialty within clinical governance.
- Relevant experience in clinical governance within a medium to large NHS organisation.
- Supervisory Management Role.
- Experience of the clinical governance function within healthcare.
- Experience of involvement in clinical audit.
- Experience of working closely with clinicians of varying seniority.
- Experience of analysing problems and identifying solutions.
- Experience of using Windows based software.
- Proven track record of delivering clinical governance objectives in line with organisational strategy.
- Understanding of and working experience of process mapping.
- A track record in delivering presentations and developing and delivering training.
- Development and use of information systems to support change.
Desirable
- Experience of using clinical outcomes systems.
- Ability to concentrate for long periods of time while analysing data and producing reports /trackers
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
