Main area Nursing and Midwifery Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent: Predominantly Monday to Friday, occasional unsocial hours including occasional weekends Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Predominantly Monday to Friday, occasional unsocial hours including occasional weekends) Job ref 190-7584-DIR
Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site 3rd floor Broomcross Building Town Sheffield Salary £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 06/05/2024 23:59 Interview date 17/05/2024
Clinical Governance Coordinator
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity for an experienced healthcare professional to engage comprehensively with the governance agenda within a large, diverse, and forward-thinking care group. Joining a team with a proven track record of adherence to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals' core governance principles, you'll provide expert advice and support across all staff levels. Additionally, you'll contribute to the essential training program, ensuring compliance with both mandatory and job-specific requirements.
Your responsibilities will span various governance facets, including incident management and compliance monitoring, involving thorough investigation and detailed reporting. With a primary focus on enhancing patient and staff safety, the role demands strong communication and influencing skills to drive positive change. You'll play a crucial part in fostering a supportive environment aligned with the values of the SCS/SMR Governance Team and the broader Trust.
The successful candidate will operate across three hospital sites, covering multiple specialties.
Main duties of the job
We seek a highly driven and clinically adept individual with a solid grasp of governance principles. The ideal candidate will possess recent or current experience within the acute NHS setting and demonstrate exceptional interpersonal abilities.
These competencies include effective engagement with diverse professional cohorts, collaboration within a small team, active participation in governance discussions during multidisciplinary meetings, offering well-rounded perspectives on governance matters, and providing sound clinical and professional guidance to peers. Proficiency in computer usage, along with strong critical analysis and report writing skills, is essential.
The successful candidate must be flexible to work across NGH and RHH sites. While the role primarily operates within Monday to Friday office hours, occasional out-of-hours work, such as weekends and nights, may be necessary to support Bronze command as needed.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes a firm commitment to professional development of it’s staff together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Experience
* Extensive and relevant professional qualification experience
* Experience of working effectively in a relevant multi-disciplinary environment, some of which must be at AFC 6
* Experience of developing patient centred services
* Experience of incident investigation
* Evidence of managing change
Skills and Knowledge
* Working knowledge of the Governance Strategy and Complaints Policy
* Experience of clinical audit
* Experience of Risk Management
Education and Qualifications
* Registered nursing professional or Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience
* 1st Level Degree or evidence of working towards.
* Evidence of relevant professional development
* To have completed the national PEAP programme for practice supervisors or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998
* Clinical Audit course/Basic risk management/health and safety qualification
Personal Qualities
* Influencing and negotiating skills
* Evidence of well-developed written and report writing skills
* Flexible to meet the needs of the service
* Willingness to maintain clinical skills, working clinical shifts as necessary
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You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. All communications should be sent via your Trac system account.
If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.
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The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.
Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.
All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.
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