Quality and Governance Specialist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Quality and Governance Specialist| Clinical Governance | Manchester | Part time - 22.5 hours a week

Spire Manchester is now recruiting a Quality and Governance Specialist to their well-established team.

The successful candidate will play an important role in driving quality improvement across the hospital through supporting the delivery and development of the clinical governance agenda.

SpireManchester Hospital is a £65m state-of-the-art healthcare facility offering you the opportunity to work across a wide variety of specialisms.

You will be able to develop your clinical skills in a modern and progressive environment. The Manchester team currently consists of over 800 colleagues and we are rapidly expanding as we increase the scope of services we provide across our experienced and dynamic teams.

Duties and responsibilities:

• To support the Head of Clinical Governance, Quality and Risk in incident management and investigation, working with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure timely and accurate reviews.
• To provide effective management of corporate and local policies, including developing and maintaining tracking systems, ensuring timely reviews and quality assurance.
• To manage the process of dissemination and review of NICE guidance and best practice guidelines, maintaining tracking systems, writing compliance reports and ensuring audits are routinely scheduled where necessary.
• To support the delivery and development of the hospital's audit and effectiveness program, ensuring programs are focussed on the key areas for quality improvement.
• To work closely with clinical and non-clinical staff to develop robust improvement plans in response to various clinical governance intelligence and oversee the implementation into practice.
• To facilitate the sharing of learning plans with relevant teams across the hospital, utilising electronic systems to track and evidence action plan completion, implementing checks to gain assurance on the effectiveness of the actions taken.
• To write comprehensive reports in line with the Spire's Governance Process and as directed by the Head of Clinical Governance, Quality and Risk.

Who we're looking for:

• A registered health professional is essential
• Experience of undertaking clinical audits
• Computer literate with a comprehensive understanding of word and excel and be able to transfer data into charts with Excel and other programmes such as Datix.
• Good facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of report writing and minute taking, demonstrating excellent attention to detail
• Ability to collate and interpret data accurately

Benefits

We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Colleague recognition - Inspire people awards
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
• 'Spire for you' reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
• Free Bupa wellness screening
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Spire Share Save scheme
• Subsidized canteen
• Uniform/clogs provided

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward. Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue.

From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care. For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Sarah Whittaker at or call 07525887973

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A registered health professional is essential

Experience

Essential

• Experience of undertaking clinical audits
• Computer literate with a comprehensive understanding of word and excel and be able to transfer data into charts with Excel and other programmes such as Datix.
• Good facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of report writing and minute taking, demonstrating excellent attention to detail
• Ability to collate and interpret data accurately

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Spire Healthcare Ltd

Address

170 Barlow Moor Rd, Manchester M20 2AF

Manchester

M20 2AF

Employer's website

https://www.spirehealthcare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)