Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job ref
- 423-6906737
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale NHS Trust
- Town
- Keighley
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Women's and Children's Risk and Governance Nurse (Band 7)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
The post holder will support the coordination of risk and governance within the women’s gynaecology and children’s services directorates.
The post holder will play a key role in leadership, development, and transformation to support the delivery of the highest possible quality of services for service users through highly developed robust Risk Management & Clinical Governance processes.
To work in partnership and in collaboration with members of the multidisciplinary services actively learning from clinical incidents or complaints. Participate in service improvement projects or development programmes that contribute to the modernisation of gynaecology and children’s services, providing both professional and clinical advice
as necessary.
To lead the development, implementation and audit of clinical guidelines, protocols and policies to ensure evidence based clinical practice and safe, high quality care that is embedded into practice.
To engage effectively with clinical leaders and others to ensure that the women’s and children’s workforce work in an environment that enables them to provide safe, high quality, appropriate care for patients/service users, within available resources, demonstrating improvements to patient/client care, productivity, and efficiency.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of the WC+SS Risk and Governance team to support the clinical teams in the Women's , Children's and Specialist Services Division to maintain and improve patient safety by responding to clinical incidents, and identifying risks within the directorates. The post holder is responsible for the delivery of evidence-based clinical standards, ensuring high quality care, and providing effective leadership for staff in their area of work.
The post holder will promote a culture of openness and transparency through regular and effective two way communications; and by role modelling the Trust’s Right Care Behaviours.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details of roles and responsibilities please find attached in the Job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered Nurse / Midwife with current NMC registration
- • Relevant Health Related Degree
- • Evidence of recent continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- • Risk and governance related qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of supporting clinical staff with Quality Improvement
- • Recent experience of working at Band 7
- • Supporting clinical teams following incidents
- • Achievement of high quality care through evidence based practice
Desirable criteria
- • Leadership of clinical governance and patient safety
- • Updating clinical guidelines /NICE Guidance assessments
- PMA / PNA
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of providing motivational, professional leadership with highly developed interpersonal skills
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in Chairing meetings
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Able to demonstrate wide knowledge of health policy and application to practice
- • Good knowledge base regarding clinical information systems
- Knowledge of current local and national priorities
- • Knowledge of the NHS patient safety strategy
Desirable criteria
- • Competent in the use of databases and spreadsheets
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fiona McFadyen
- Job title
- Risk & Governance Lead for WCSS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535292219
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