Paediatric governance Lead | Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Paediatric Governance Lead to ensure quality and safety across children’s services. The role involves implementing risk management, coordinating investigations, and promoting compliance with governance processes. Candidates should have experience in clinical governance and excellent communication skills. Join us for a rewarding opportunity that supports professional growth and community care.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Strong community engagement

Commitment to staff development

Qualifications

• Experience in managing clinical governance processes.
• Ability to lead investigations and implement risk management strategies.
• Excellent communication skills to work with multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement risk management strategy across the Trust.
• Monitor risk issues and promote safety awareness.
• Coordinate investigations and ensure learning is shared across the organization.

Skills

Risk management

Clinical governance

Quality improvement

Communication

Leadership

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 postholder will lead and be responsible for efficient clinical governance processes working closely with the Divisional Governance lead and with service managers and stakeholders to ensure compliance with robust governance processes such as incident reporting, risk, and quality improvement to ensure the responsiveness of our services. 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. As the Lead for paediatric governance, the postholder, 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. This role is based at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust and may require working across hospital sites.

Working at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust offers a rewarding experience due to its strong sense of community, commitment to staff development, and focus on providing high-quality care. The trust emphasizes its values of vision, openness, integrity, compassion, and excellence, which are reflected in its culture and patient care. The role includes a range of benefits and opportunities for professional growth.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Coordinate and facilitate investigations in collaboration with 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.

Qualifications / Requirements

• 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.
• The post holder will work closely with the paediatric divisional teams in monitoring and evaluating compliance in Paediatrics against national and local guidelines and standards.
• The post holder will evaluate aspects of patient care through audit and monitor progress against identified action plans and will provide a continuum of direct support to the paediatric divisional teams with regards to external assessment processes e.g. CQC inspections.
• Assist the Division to identify and define the information needs required to monitor clinical effectiveness, patient safety and quality outputs.
• Assist with delivering education and training related to risk management, patient safety, clinical audit, and continuous quality improvement.
• Liaise with the Director of Clinical Improvement to identify key education requirements for Clinical Standards, Audit and Effectiveness requirements.

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