Job summary
- Main area
- Quality Governance
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (end date - 31st of August 2025)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-6656471
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Finchley Memorial Hospital CDC
- Town
- Finchley
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 7 Quality Governance Manager CDC
Band 7
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a fixed term position working with the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust and Finchley Memorial CDC as a quality governance manager.
Under the direct supervision of the senior operations manager, the post holder will support the development and dissemination of the patient safety, risk and patient experience strategies within the service. This involves fostering a culture amongst teams that ensures clinical quality, risk management and patient experience remain one of the top priorities within the service.
Please see the attached job description for further information about the role.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate is required to be able demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification. In particular you should have proven experience of working within the field of quality governance for a large organisation handling substantial amounts of personal data, and deploying innovative technology.
If you believe you meet the criteria of the person specification and would like to join the Royal Free at this time, we would be interested in receiving your application.
Working for our organisation
This is an exciting time to be working at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation one of the biggest NHS Trusts in the UK, delivering care to more than 1.6 million people per year.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further information about the role.
Person specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Undergraduate Degree/equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience
- Masters level qualification, or equivalent experience
- Evidence of further professional and personal development
Desirable criteria
- Business/Project Management qualification, or equivalent experience
- Clinical qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience in project management in an acute care environment
- Ability to collate and analyse statistical and qualitative information
- Experience of implementing change projects
- Experience of effective working within a team and alone
- Experience working with minimal supervision
- Knowledge of the components of governance, risk management and assurance function; current NHS national policies, standards, requirements and directions that relate to measuring and improving the quality and safety of patient care
- Demonstrates commitment to improving the quality of patient care
- Ability to support a range of staff and quality/ clinical services/ professional activity
- Experience of working with patients/service/stakeholders to improve quality of service
- Experience in setting objectives and performance management and holding people to account
Desirable criteria
- Experience in providing advice on complex professional and other HR issues
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Ability to deal confidently with staff at all levels of an organisation
- Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a range of professionals
- Ability to make decisions and solve complex problems
- Advanced planning and organisational skills
- Excellent leadership, influencing and motivational skills
- Excellent abilities in concise and accurate report writing and presentation of information
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Proficient in the use of MS Office applications: Microsoft Word, Outlook, Access, Explorer, Powerpoint, Teams and Excel
- Ability to define, collate, retrieve & manipulate data
- Knowledge and understanding of professional standards and requirements
- The ability to maintain and respect confidentiality- Information Governance, Issues of confidentiality (Data protections, Freedom of Information Act, Caldicott)
Desirable criteria
- Able to negotiate and influence at an organisational level and externally with a range of stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills at all levels, confident when speaking in public and at large meetings
- Developing & delivering training programmes
Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential criteria
- Collaborative and team approach to work.
- Self -motivated and proactive approach with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent time management skills
- Completer finisher working to tight deadlines
Others
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elizabeth Pickering
- Job title
- Senior Operations Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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