Quality Governance Facilitator
Job Description
Job summary
Are you enthusiastic about ensuring our patients have the high quality of care they deserve? Do you want to join a newly formed Team?
We would love to hear applicants who feel they can really make a difference.
What does the job involve?
This role offers a new and unique opportunity to help shape high quality patient care as part of newly formed teams.
As a Quality Governance Facilitator, you will help support the delivery of the Group Clinical Governance agenda within our newly formed Care Group structure. You will directly support care groups with their clinical governance activity, facilitating effective quality governance, risk, and assurance in addition to implementing and monitoring the incident management process. With a drive and passion for improving services for our patients and staff you will have the ability to adapt working across supportive multi-disciplinary teams. You will also be able to demonstrate your effectiveness and building and sustain respectful relationships, whilst working effectively with others.
This also includes the implementing and monitoring the incident management process and providing support to the care groups.
You will work in partnership with the Quality Governance Manager and Quality Governance Coordinator and Group Leadership Teams, to achieve our clinical governance objectives alongside our Group values. You will also work in collaboration with the clinical teams allocated within each Care Group.
Main duties of the job
You must be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and have previous experience of clinical governance, and an ability to work flexibly and responsively to the needs of the service and the wider community.
You should be very well organised, motivated and reliable and have flexibility to support multiple leaders and meetings within the cluster of care groups and the wider group. In return you can expect to be supported with your personal and professional development.
Assisting the Quality Governance team in contributing to monitoring and reporting of the Care Groups progress in achieving their quality governance objectives. This will include supporting the management of risks within the Care Groups, management of incidents and supporting the Care Groups with the delivery of compliance with the Duty of Candour regulation. The post holder will also provide support relating to clinical audit, NICE guidance, supporting the development of patient information leaflets, other governance related functions and will attend Care Group and Speciality level governance meetings.
The post holder will undertake these functions under line management of the Quality Governance Manager, whilst also working closely with other staff members within the Quality Governance Central Team and staff within the Care Groups in order to support the overall implementation of the Quality Governance agenda.
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HUTH would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
Job responsibilities
Support the delivery of governance functions working flexibly within the Care Group governance team.
Work closely with all teams within the Quality Governance Care Group to support the teams mission statement and Care Groups governance framework.
Duties and responsibilities will be flexible and will include incident management using incident systems, attendance and support to governance meetings, support on the Duty of Candour process and other key governance processes.
Monitor and review incidents, escalating when appropriate and work with the Risk Team and Patient Safety Team as required.
Where do I find additional information?
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Suitable experience of working within an acute trust or other care sector
- Evidence of effective working in a multi-disciplinary setting
Desirable
- Proven ability of delivering solutions to manage risk and patient safety
- Experiencing of developing and implementing practical user-friendly solutions for risk management
- Use of incident reporting system
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in relevant discipline or the equivalent level of knowledge gained through e.g. diploma and/or experience
Desirable
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Masters qualification in relevant discipline or working towards one/additional specialist risk management knowledge through training
- Project management qualification
- Risk management qualification
Skills
Essential
- An understanding of risk management and/or patient safety principles, tools and techniques
- Proven report writing skills, including using data from multiple sources to provide analysis and identification of themes
- Computer skills with working knowledge of databases and spreadsheets
- Proven report writing skills
Desirable
- Understanding and commitment to quality governance and assurance
- Understanding of medical terminology
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Hull Royal Infirmary
Anlbay Road
Hull
HU3 2JZ
