Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Governance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 160-6477047
- Employer
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Fazakerley
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Governance Lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
We are looking for a Clinical Governance Lead to join a high performing and motivated Risk and Governance team. This is truly an exciting time to be joining this outstanding service and organisation. The successful candidate will be the lead for Clinical Governance within the organisation.
We are looking for a leader who has credibility, a passion for working with all types of challenges, can inspire and motivate teams and has the ability to operate at a strategic level, playing a key part in the continuing development of services.
This post provides a fabulous opportunity for the right person to shine and make a positive contribution to both the department and The Walton Centre.
Main duties of the job
To lead on the implementation and delivery of a range of clinical governance activities with a particular focus on incidents, investigations and risk management. Supporting the Trust to meet the regulatory requirements of external standards and inspections.
To manage the clinical governance agenda and further development of robust systems and processes throughout the Trust in relation to clinical governance and quality. Underpinning safe clinical practice and fostering multidisciplinary working across the Trust.
To be a specialist resource within the Trust, using knowledge and experience of clinical governance.
Operational lead to ensure the relevant systems and processes are in place to reflect the national patient safety strategy.
The post holder is responsible for developing systems and managing processes for sharing and implementing processes to ensure organisational learning.
Working for our organisation
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust is the only NHS trust to hold dual accreditation for the Investors in People. We invest in people and we invest in wellbeing standards and have been awarded Gold status for both. The Walton Centre is a leader in the treatment and care of neurology and neurosurgery, placing the patient and their family at the heart of everything we do. As the only specialist hospital trust in the UK dedicated to providing comprehensive neurology, neurosurgery, spinal and pain management services we are proud to be rated as an Outstanding Trust by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and champion change throughout the field of neuroscience. Originally formed in 1992, the Trust received Foundation Trust status in 2009.
With around 1,450 staff, The Walton Centre treats more than 127,000 outpatients and 18,000 inpatients each year. We have leading specialists and incredibly dedicated staff delivering excellent clinical outcomes for brain, spinal and neurological care nationally and internationally. Teams across our site in Fazakerley, Liverpool, offer a world-class service in diagnosing and treating injuries and illnesses affecting the brain, spine and peripheral nerves and muscles, and in supporting people suffering from a wide range of long-term neurological conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification document for detailed information about the job description for this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge plus additional specialist, management knowledge acquired through training and experience to masters level equivalent
- Post graduate qualification or equivalent experience in clinical governance
Desirable criteria
- Risk management qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Training/presenting qualification or relevant experience in training/ presenting within specialist area
- Good working knowledge of risk management in relation to the NHS
- Knowledge of the requirements of duty of candour
- Evidence of working in an NHS environment
- Evidence of using computer packages
- Experience of working with senior managers and leaders
Skills & Attributes
Essential criteria
- A strong commitment to making service performance improvements and a determination to achieve positive service outcomes for user
- Communicating the vision and rationale for change and modernisation, and engaging and facilitating others to work collaboratively to achieve real change.
- Ability to demonstrate and generate commitment to patient experience, public involvement and equality and diversity
- Able to produce policies and procedures and to cascade those upon implementation to other team members
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Mike
- Job title
- Duffy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 556 3084
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