Paediatric governance Lead

Bolton Nhs Foundation Trust; Bolton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Bolton seeks a Paediatric Governance Lead to enhance safety and quality in children's services. The role involves governance leadership, risk management, and compliance monitoring. Qualified candidates should have relevant education in risk management and experience in clinical audit. The position is offered full-time for 12 months, with the possibility of part-time consideration.

Benefits

Wide range of staff benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in implementing risk management strategies.
• Knowledge of clinical governance and safety standards.
• Ability to conduct clinical audits and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead governance in children's services.
• Implement risk management and monitor safety.
• Facilitate investigations into incidents.

Skills

Risk management

Patient safety

Clinical audit

Quality improvement

Education

Education and training in risk management

Job description

Overview

We are keen to recruit an inspirational individual, to the position of Paediatric Governance Lead within our Acute Paediatric service. The post holder will provide strong wide integrated governance leadership on safety, quality & risk management across children’s services. The post holder will be working as part of the divisional governance team. This is a key role in providing assurance that our services are compliant and deliver high quality care to our patients. The post is fixed term/secondment offered for 12 months, subject to potential extension, and is offered at full time, part time may be considered. As with all secondment opportunities, interested parties should discuss the opportunity with their line manager before applying.

Responsibilities

• The Lead for paediatric governance, within the framework of Clinical Governance, will work collaboratively with the senior leadership team in delivering the quality, governance and safety strategy in Children’s services and ensure that policies and procedures are in place to enable risks to be identified and managed appropriately.
• Main responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
  • The post holder will implement risk management.
  • Strategy which supports internal reporting and communication across the Trust and external agencies.
  • They will be instrumental in monitoring any risk issues and promote and encourage safety awareness.
  • They will be using learning from incidents to inform and develop clinical practices and communicate the learning across Children’s services.
• Facilitate risk management, clinical audit, and clinical effectiveness programs, triangulating with patient experience data.
• Encourage staff and clinician engagement in key clinical governance processes and programs, extending to relationship building within the Division and the Trust.
• Work closely with the paediatric divisional teams in monitoring and evaluating compliance in Paediatrics against national and local guidelines and standards.
• Evaluate aspects of patient care through audit and monitor progress against identified action plans and provide direct support to the paediatric divisional teams with regards to external assessment processes (e.g. CQC inspections).
• As a member of the Child Health Governance Team, work with all grades of staff on all hospital sites to implement changes into clinical practice with the aim to improve safety.
• Coordinate and facilitate investigations in collaboration with the lead investigators, including assisting with the writing of investigation reports, ensuring adherence to deadlines.
• Ensure that actions arising from incident investigations are completed within the given timeline and that learning is shared across the organisation where appropriate.
• Undertake these functions under the line management of the paediatric matron and Head of Clinical Governance.

Role requirements / Qualifications

• Education and training in relation to risk management, patient safety, clinical audit, and continuous quality improvement.
• Liaise with the Director of Clinical Improvement to assist in identifying the key education requirements for Clinical Standards, Audit and Effectiveness requirements and assist with delivering these programmes.
• Assist the Division to identify and define the information needs required to monitor clinical effectiveness, patient safety and quality outputs of the service provided.
• Support the Division to develop robust systems and processes in relation to clinical governance and quality (remaining accountable to the Head of Clinical Governance).
• Develop and maintain inter-divisional and Patient Safety Team relationships to ensure that incidents are investigated in accordance with the relevant Trust policy and in alignment with Trust values.
• Co-ordinate and facilitate investigations in collaboration with the lead investigators, including assisting with the writing of investigation reports, ensuring adherence to deadlines.
• Ensure that actions arising from incident investigations are completed within the given timeline and that learning is shared across the organisation where appropriate.
• Provide continuum of direct support to the paediatric divisional teams with regards to external assessment processes e.g. CQC inspections.

Additional context

The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment. We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture, if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of staff benefits please click on the link below to see what current benefits we have. Staff benefits - Bolton NHS FT (boltonft.nhs.uk)

Notes

From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.