Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Town Epsom Salary £44,806 - £53,134 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 18/05/2025 23:59 Interview date 30/05/2025
gesh Senior Clinical Auditor (Site Lead)
Band 6
*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers
Job overview
The role of the Site Lead Clinical Auditor provides clinical audit leadership within the gesh group. Providing oversight of clinical audit programmes, including managing resolutions to issues around participation, tracking and ensuring SMART action plans are embedded across gesh. The role also provides support of corporate level clinical audit projects.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder is responsible for triangulating multiple sources of information across their brief to create a coherent picture of clinical audit and effectiveness across gesh.
Working with group colleagues to review the output of compliance of all relevant areas, benchmarking within the group to avoid unwanted variations, and to embed best practice and maintaining an overall site picture.
The role also promotes and supports local clinical audit projects and delivers clinical audit project expertise to the designated site within the gesh Group. In addition, the position will support all clinical effectiveness and audit work as required, and contribute to the strategic development of clinical audit activity across gesh.
To mentor and support other members of the clinical audit and effectiveness team with the aim to improve the collaborative approach across the group.
The post-holder is required to work independently within established Group guidelines.
Whilst the post holder will have an administrative base at one location within gesh, they will be required to regularly work at other sites.
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Group Clinical Audit Programmes: Lead in the creation and oversight of the clinical audit programmes across gesh.
Corporate Level Clinical Audit Projects: Provide oversight and support for corporate level clinical audit projects.
Clinical Speciality Support: Work as the main contact for the designated site for clinical specialities and clinical audit enquiries.
Clinical Audit Expertise: Facilitate the development and implementation of multidisciplinary clinical audit across. Initiate, plan and manage clinical audit projects. Development of recommendations and action plans. Triangulating multiple data across the pillars of clinical governance tocreate a coherent picture of clinical audit and effectiveness across the Group.
Reporting: Ensuring central reporting of progress for clinical audit activity and discuss provision required to meet the Trust core clinical auditprojects. Provide project updates andsummary reports.
Establishing and Maintaining Relationships: To work with relevant stakeholders collaboratively on all aspects of the process of clinical audit. Attend relevant meetings to influence, develop, negotiate and inform on clinical audit and its role within the Clinical Governance agenda.
Training Programme: Provide a regular planned and ad-hoc audit trainingfor gesh staff, including design of training tools and course structure.
Other Responsibilities: Support other Group Clinical Auditors with all aspects of clinical audit and effectiveness as required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Batchelors Degree or relevant experience
* Clinical Qualification
Experience
* Clinical Audit Experience or transferrable skills
* Clinical Governance Experience or transferrable skills
* Clinical background
Knowledge
* National clinical audit knowledge
* Clinical effectiveness knowledge
* Clinical audit cycle
* National and regulatory reporting (e.g. Quality account)Clinical audit cycle
* Quality Improvement knowledge
* Project management knowledge
Skills
* MS Office including advanced MS Excel
* Data analysis skills
* Triangulation of data & information
* Advanced writing skills
* Skill to translate data for different audiences
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
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Name Adam Lewarne Job title Group Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Manager Email address adam.lewarne@stgeorges.nhs.uk Telephone number 02087251375 Additional information
Janet Kingdom: Group Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Manager
E: janet.kingdom@nhs.net
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