Job Overview
An exciting opportunity for a Clinical Intelligence and Assurance Co-ordinator to join the Clinical Directorate. The successful candidate will support effective use of clinical data to improve healthcare delivery across the Trust, contributing to high quality clinical audit, insight for service improvement, patient safety and better outcomes.
Main Duties
* Provide support across the clinical audit cycle, including identifying best practice, developing audit methodologies, assisting with data collection and analysis, interpreting findings and implementing improvement actions.
* Play a significant role in the delivery of the Trust's Clinical and Digital Strategies, coordinating, facilitating and delivering high quality, innovative, clinical audit.
* Collaborate with the Clinical Intelligence and Assurance Team, Research and Innovation Department, Clinical Improvement Team, Health Informatics and the WAST Innovation and Improvement Network (WIIN) to promote a culture of evidence‑based improvement.
* Contribute to design, delivery and review of Clinical and Ambulance Service Indicators through audit and interpretation of electronic Patient Clinical Records (ePCRs).
* Participate in the wider NHS quality assurance monitoring processes, evidencing and achieving the Health and Care Quality Standards (2023).
* Travel to different sites as required.
Qualifications and Knowledge – Essential
* Degree level education or equivalent knowledge and experience.
* Qualification in clinical audit or equivalent experience.
* Detailed knowledge of clinical audit processes including gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data.
* Working knowledge of SQL.
* Comprehensive knowledge of GDPR, FOI Act, Caldicott Principles and Clinical Governance.
Skills and Attributes – Essential
* Research, evaluation and audit skills.
* Ability to understand and present complicated information simply and address opposition and resistance.
* Highly numerate, able to collect, analyse, interpret and present multifaceted clinical data.
Desirable
* Welsh language skills (levels 1–5 in understanding, speaking, reading, writing).
Experience – Essential
* Delivering and facilitating clinical audit within a healthcare setting.
* Leading and undertaking clinical audit projects, analysing and presenting complex data using qualitative and quantitative methods.
Other
* Displays a passion for excellence and for the role of clinical audit in improving patient care.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The Trust actively seeks to recruit and appoint people currently under‑represented in the workforce, including women, people with disabilities, LGBT individuals and those from minority ethnic groups. All staff are encouraged and supported to learn Welsh.
Location
Base: Swansea, Wales.
Salary
Salary will be as per the 2026/27 Agenda for Change Pay Award effective from 1 April 2026.
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