Job overview
Working within the Family Services Care Group leadership team aided by their Professional background and professional insight the post holder will provide expertise for clinical governance across the division and the specialties within it. Reporting to the Matron for Gynaecology, and
working closely with the Director of Nursing, the post holder will support the Care Group management team to ensure robust governance and the delivery of high-quality safe patient care.
This role encompasses incident management, risk management, clinical audit and clinical effectiveness programs, actively leading and delivering an effective, high-quality governance and risk management program across the Care Group.
The post holder will coordinate harm reviews, multidisciplinary team meetings and after-action reviews and facilitate reports. The postholder will support colleagues within the division to drive
the clinical governance agenda. The post holder will have a key role in ensuring that actions from incident reviews, multidisciplinary team meetings and after-action reviews are completed within
the division and that trend analysis of incidents and learning is shared across the organisation where appropriate. The post holder will also provide support to ensure that external inspections have appropriate action plan and that corrective actions are completed with follow up audit as required. The post holder will work closely with the corporate Governance team.
Main duties of the job
governance processes
Quality and Audits
Health and Safety
Incidents and Never Events
Morbidity and Mortality
Leadership
Staff Development and training
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person specification
education qualifications
Essential criteria
1. •Intermediate qualification or demonstrable experience in the use of Microsoft Office Applications
2. •Experience of working in the NHS
3. •Experience of Governance, Risk Management and/or Health and Safety, which includes the ability to evaluate current local position against national and local standards within the NHS.
4. •Experience of evaluating ‘evidence’ against prescribed standards for a range of assessments Educated to Masters Level (or willing to work towards) or equivalent level of experience
Desirable criteria
5. Training in PSIRF, Root Cause Analysis or experience in undertaking investigations
6. Registered Health Care Professional (NMC/ HCPC)
Knowledge Training and Experience
Essential criteria
7. •Knowledge of Governance and risk management systems
8. •Understanding of the quality standards applicable to the NHS
9. •Knowledge of legislation and standards relating to health and safety, security, complaints, claims and incidents.
10. •Provides learning and development to colleagues within area of responsibility/division
Desirable criteria
11. Experience and knowledge of current approaches to serious incident management, evidence and awareness of safeguarding, Quality Improvement, infection control, pressure ulcer review
Employer certification / accreditation badges