Job summary
- Main area
- Administrative
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 1 year (Fixed term adoption leave cover.)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 249-6720739
- Employer
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Western Hospital
- Town
- Swindon
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Head of Insights and Learning.
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.
Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.
We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Job overview
A fantastic amd exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated experienced and euthusiastic individual to work witin the insights and learning team
Would you like to be part of a dynamic and highly motivated team to improve patient care, whilst ensuring effective working relationships across the trust. The ideal candidate must have a flexible proactive attitude as they will work alongside the wider Divisional teams across organisational and professional boundaries to support the delivery of high-quality patient centered care.
We are looking for a manager with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You should have experience and understanding in all aspect of patient safety, demonstrable organisational skills and be able to work autonomously and as part of a team. You must have good and clear leadership skills and evidence of change management practice.
A flexible approach is needed to manage the changing picture in line with the National agenda, driving the services forward to embed all aspects of the National Patient Safety Strategy.
GWH is in an excellent location, convenient for the M4, surrounded by the Wiltshire countryside and with good links to the Cotswolds, Bath, Oxford and Bristol.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible and accountable for the delivery of elements of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework, including responsibility for managing the incident reporting system; facilitation in responding to patient safety incidents; Patient Safety Incident Investigations and other effective learning responses as defined by the trusts Patient Safety Incident Response Plan and reporting and ensuring that the Trust effectively discharges the legal Duty of Candour and adheres to the involvement and engagement policy as defined by the trust.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring incident reporting and the subsequent learning response processes are embedded within the organisation, providing and evidencing analysis, trends and learning from incidents experienced within the organisation and for raising the profile of incident reporting and the implementation in conjunction with trust identified learning response leads, of improvement actions.
Working for our organisation
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are.
Service We will put our patients first
Teamwork We will work together
Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect We will act with integrity
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Provide expert advice on Quality Governance / Risk / Patient Safety / Audit / Assurance and support all aspects of Clinical Governance and Patient Safety
2. Develop the consistent and clear use of data to provide assurance and facilitate clinical governance arrangements across the Trust.
3. Monitor the delivery of the Trust Quality Governance framework and oversee routine auditing of the effectiveness of clinical governance arrangements within Divisions (excludes board assurance).
4. Lead the Patient Safety Team to design, implement and maintain quality governance dashboards and reports, data collection tools, reporting and escalation mechanisms across the organisation which facilitate the provision of assurance, transparency and creates an environment where clinical excellence can flourish.
5. Work in consultation with the divisions and the Divisional Governance Facilitators to develop and embed the use of the quality metrics that are monitored, reported on an on-going basis in order to assess and develop the quality of services provided and the effectiveness of leaning responses as defined by PSIRF.
6. Lead the Patient Safety Team to work in consultation with the divisions and the Divisional Governance Facilitators to ensure that information is available in an appropriate format and timely manner, in order to support delivery on the key components of Quality Governance. Assemble and analyse quantitative and qualitative data information in ways that assist staff in reflecting and improving on service delivery and practice, which is both actionable and measurable.
7. Work in consultation with the divisions and the Divisional Governance Facilitators to ensure that constructive challenge is provided to service leads on the delivery of key governance and quality Key Performance Indicators (KPI)’s / metrics, escalating to divisional management teams when targets are not met.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master’s degree level qualification or equivalent training and experience
- Quality governance / risk management or related training
- Quality Improvement qualification or demonstrable experience
Desirable criteria
- Clinical qualification and hold current registration with the relevant professional body
- Teaching certificate Clinical risk management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of quality governance work in the NHS or healthcare setting
- Experience of working with complaints and clinical or non-clinical incidents
- Experience of healthcare governance including knowledge of corporate governance, risk management, and assurance frameworks
- Extensive experience of risk management systems, monitoring and measuring of quality and safety and complex data analysis
Desirable criteria
- Experience of The Datix DCIQ database
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate complex aspects of quality governance in a style that all staff can comprehend and implement
- Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with staff at all levels
- Project and change management skills
- Analytical skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to develop and implement organisational policy
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
- Helen Winter
- Job title
- Associate Director of Nursing.
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01793605391
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