Job vacancy: Head of Clinical Registries and Audits, Arden and GEM Commissioning Support Unit, Leicester

Job summary

Main area: Admin and Clerical
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 880-6765053

Employer: Arden and GEM Commissioning Support Unit
Employer type: NHS
Site: St John's House
Town: Leicester
Salary: £74,290 - £85,601 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/11/2024 23:59

Head of Clinical Registries and Audits

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Arden & GEM is a leading Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) working across the health and care system in England to provide transformational solutions, business support and clinical services. We work in partnership with other health and care organisations to design, develop and deliver better care for patients that improves health outcomes while making efficient use of resources. Regardless of function, specialism, or location, we are all united in our commitment to improving health and wellbeing for everyone.

Our services are built on a strong foundation of experienced people who build great relationships, a commitment to NHS values and a thorough understanding of our clients and the challenges they face.

Arden & GEM CSU is committed to supporting the redeployment of our at risk employees. In line with our policy, staff at risk may be given preferential consideration to posts that could be considered suitable alternative employment. We reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. We apologise if you experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· Work with the Associate Director of Business Intelligence to deliver a robust service - responsible for providing an efficient, effective, high quality professional and well-co-ordinated service capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements ensuring alignment with the activity of the organisation.

· Provide strong leadership, role modelling AGEM values and establishing a productive and cohesive culture.

· Identify opportunities to maximise the use of national clinical registry and audit data to improve patient care and clinical outcomes.

· Ensure the service has robust governance in place, assuring outputs generated by the service are made available to relevant parties in a timely and robust manner.

· Ensure effective governance is in place between Clinical Registries teams, NHS England and associated partners.

· Provide pro-active leadership to the totality of the service and be the escalation point for all clinical registry team and senior customer base.

· Ensure the service is resilient and responsive to evolving needs and has effective service management planning in place.

· Utilise own initiative to develop a forward-thinking clinical registries and audit service that is optimally performant.

· Undertake coordination and identification of shared requirements across all AGEM led registries and audits to drive efficiency.

· Embed a culture of “US”, developing an AGEM clinical registry identity, where all team members feel part of that team and recognise their role and value whilst also ensuring we maintain the individual identity of each registry for external recognition and reputation.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Experience in effective stakeholder engagement and management.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines.
• Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.

Desirable criteria

• Experience with an established clinical registry or audit
• Ability to carry out procurements for highly detailed, high value contracts that require analysis, comparison and assessment.

Please submit your application form without delay to avoid disappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Please check the email account (including your junk mail) that you supplied as part of your application on a regular basis following the closing date and throughout the recruitment process, as this is how we will communicate with you.

All new entrants to the CSU for a permanent position will be subject to a 6 month probationary period. For new entrants appointed on a fixed-term basis, the probationary period is between 1 and 6 months.