Detailed job description
and main responsibilities
The post holder will work with Corporate Directorates and Clinical Care Groups supporting staff across all sites to identify, design, implement, analyse and present clinical audits.
The post holder will support speciality and directorate clinical audit leads to develop and implement clinical audit plans for their areas. The post holder will support the identification of recommendations and action plans from clinical audit results and where relevant, ensuring that the effects of changes in practice are assessed through the process of re-audit.
The post holder will ensure that the Trust's regional and national requirements for clinical audit are considered by their specialties’ when developing clinical audit programmes and that all clinical audits undertaken are ethically sound and data is collected in accordance with Information Governance requirements.
The post holder is expected to contribute to the development of the Trust clinical audit strategy and clinical audit plan.
A detailed job description is attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Qualification or equivalent experience to degree level
Desirable criteria
2. Clinical audit (e.g. HQIP or equivalent) qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
3. Experience of working with IT systems and databases
4. Experience in analysing data and making judgements
5. Experience in data collection and/or clinical audits
Desirable criteria
6. Experience of working in a healthcare setting
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential criteria
7. Excellent IT skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Knowledge
Essential criteria
8. Knowledge of medical terminology and the ability to deal with confidential data of a highly sensitive nature
9. Knowledge of Information Governance
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
10. Good communication skills
Language requirement
Essential criteria
11. Able to speak English as necessary to undertake the role