Senior Sister /Charge nurse for Governance

Barts Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking a Governance Lead for its cardiology service in London. The role involves leading quality governance activities, ensuring compliance with NHS standards, and contributing to patient safety improvement projects. Ideal candidates will have extensive cardiology experience, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to quality care.

Qualifications

• Extensive cardiology (CCU) experience at a senior grade.
• Evidence of Degree level study or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrable experience of effectively managing staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver quality governance activities at unit level.
• Ensure compliance with governance and risk framework.
• Implement the site's Safe and Compassionate Quality Improvement plan.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Critical thinking

Complaints handling

Data analysis

Team collaboration

Education

1st level degree or equivalent experience

Management qualification or equivalent

NMC Registered Nurse

Post Registration Clinical course

Tools

Datix

Job description

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the cardiology service, we are looking for someone with extensive leadership experience working in the cardiology field and have a strong interest in improving patient safety. Experience with governance and the framework used within the NHS is essential, if you have the skills mentioned then this is the post for you.

The post offers a great opportunity to contribute to the delivery of safer care. The role will allow for the successful candidate to be involvement in quality improvement projects.

The post allows for an experience individual to work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to set up robust systems to maintain safe practice and safe patient experience.

Please note previous applicants need not apply

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as a senior member of the CCU team to lead and deliver a range of quality governance activities at unit level and within professional teams' groups, to ensure compliance with the site's governance and risk framework. This includes effective complaint handling, gathering patient feedback, patient safety, incident handling and meeting the regulatory requirements of external standards and inspection such as those undertaken by the Care Quality Commission.

As Governance Lead the post holder will have a key part to play in the implementation of the site's Safe and Compassionate Quality Improvement plan and activities and in developing a proactive, open learning and improvement culture, in order to reflect Bart's Health ambition to be a leader in safety and health care excellence

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• 1st level degree or equivalent experience or study
• Completion of a management qualification or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Completion of leadership qualification
• Good level of clinical governance knowledge

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills with MDT and patients and their carers
• Ability to support the development of others
• Evidence of critical thinking and initiative to solve problems and mange workload
• Extensive cardiology (CCU) experience at a senior grade.
• Complaints handling and investigation experience.
• Experience of evaluating 'evidence' against prescribed standards for a range of assessments
• Demonstrates skills in analysis and interpretation of risk, performance, clinical and other data and reports
• mpetent Datix user and demonstrable evidence that they can teach others to use the system
• The ability to work on personal initiative and as part of a team, working across professional boundaries at all levels of the service and site

Desirable criteria

• solve problems and mange workload Ability to respond to challenges in a proactive and flexible way

Communication

Essential criteria

• Able to maintain effective relationships and develop networks both internally and across the trust to ensure effective governance
• Can handle sensitive situations and communicate appropriately with patients, complainants, and relatives when things have gone wrong, as a result of the PSIRP or complaints process
• Able to present complex issues clearly and concisely at all levels of the service

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NMC Registered Nurse
• Post Registration Clinical course
• Evidence of Degree level study or equivalent experience
• ILS

Desirable criteria

• Mentorship course or relevant teaching course

Personal and people development

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience of effectively managing staff and the professional development of self and team
• Can develop and deliver training and facilitate Task and Finish Groups / work streams

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals' who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Heath NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

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.

Application numbers

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received.
Documents to download

• Senior Sister Charge Nurse Governance (PDF, 539.5KB)
• Our Values and Behaviours (PDF, 334.9KB)
• Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 92.0KB)
• Candidate Information Pack (PDF, 549.5KB)