Clinical Governance and Patient Safety Lead

Freeman Hospital

Carthage (MO)

On-site

USD 58,000 - 74,000

Full time

24 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Staff Benefits

Flexible working

Job summary

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Governance and Patient Safety Lead to join the Medicine, Emergency Care and Community board. You will provide clinical leadership, drive risk management, audits and quality improvement, and promote a culture of safety across services.

The role requires strong communication, collaboration with Medical Quality and Safety Lead, Head of Nursing, and CGARD representatives, and the ability to deliver the patient safety framework through

Qualifications

Degree level qualification with CPD evidence.
Masters level qualification or equivalent experience in clinical practice.
CPD related to patient safety/clinical governance/quality improvement.
Management qualification or experience.

Responsibilities

Promote openness and collaboration, ensure duty of candour and incident reporting.
Support development of a robust patient safety and clinical governance framework.
Lead on the Patient safety incident framework across the Clinical Board.
Foster a just culture and drive continuous improvement with key stakeholders.
Promote learning and dissemination of local and trust-wide learning.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Incident reporting

Quality improvement

Risk management

Analytical skills

Communication

Presentation skills

Education

Masters level qualification

CPD in patient safety

Degree level qualification

Job description

Urgent treatment centres
Management qualification or experience

Employer heading

Clinical Governance and Patient Safety Lead

Band 7

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

Are you ready to take an opportunity to join our dynamic patient safety team within the board of Medicine, Emergency Care and Community at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals?

We are looking for someone who is passionate about patient quality and safety, is highly motivated, dynamic and experienced in clinical practice with knowledge of risk management, audit and quality improvement.

The patient safety leads bring clinical leadership experience and excellent interpersonal skills to support the delivery of our clinical board quality and safety strategy. As a patient safety lead you work closely with the Medical Quality and Safety Lead and Head of Nursing in collaboration with key stakeholders across the board and wider trust facilitating the delivery of the overarching patient safety incident framework supporting high quality patient care. This will incorporate fostering a safety culture through quality improvement methods such as risk management, audit and quality initiatives through QI methodologies and patient safety principles using well established communication skills and credibility.

The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator and act as an ambassador for high quality patient care. It is essential that you bring a flexible and adaptable approach to meet the exciting challenge of this role, supporting the multi-professional team in enhancing quality and improving the patient experience.

Main duties of the job

Work with all services within the Clinical Board to promote and create a culture of openness, transparency and collaboration, including ensuring compliance with duty of candour and being open. Support a culture of incident reporting and support investigations into adverse events, incidents, and near misses, identifying systems issues, implementing corrective actions, and facilitating local and organizational learning. Lead on our Patient safety incident framework within and across the Clinical Board.

In conjunction with and on behalf of the Medical Quality and Safety Lead, Head of Nursing and CGARD Clinical Board representatives, support the development of a robust patient safety and clinical governance framework within the Board to ensure the provision of safe and high-quality care. This will involve collaboration with Quality and Safety leads, Head of Nursing and Matrons within the board and other stakeholders to champion patient safety initiatives and drive continuous improvement. As a key member of the Quality Oversight Group (QOG) for the Clinical Board, facilitate learning and continual improvement in response to concerns raised, incidents and complaints. Sharing local learning within the Board and contributing to Trust wide learning forums e.g. Patient Safety Briefings.

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Locations

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle Dental Hospital
Cramlington Manor Walks
Urgent treatment centres
Newcastle Fertility Centre
Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on Careers at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit our website: Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The Medicine and Emergency Care Clinical Board is made up of 18 quality and safety teams across the RVI and Freeman hospitals, covering 19 medical wards, Medical Assessment Suite, Emergency Department, Urgent Treatment Centre’s, Dialysis Unit, Diabetes Centre and 7 additional outpatient departments covering a number of specialities, we also support out teams in community as they form part of our clinical board.

You may be required to assist in the development of cross cutting policies, procedures, and guidelines that promote a culture of patient safety, risk identification and mitigation throughout the Clinical Board. In conjunction with the Head of Nursing, Medical Quality and Safety Lead, Matron, clinical governance and audit leads for the Clinical Board advise on all aspects of clinical governance, clinical risk management and patient safety.

As an integral part of the Clinical Board QOG you will facilitate, develop and co-ordinate clinical risk management within the Board. Foster a just culture in line with the corporate objectives, resulting in the delivery of a high-quality, cost-effective service. In addition, promote a positive learning environment where lessons are learnt and changes implemented to ensure a quality service working in partnership with the Director of Operations, Clinical Board Chair Head of Nursing, Matron and Clinical Directors.

You will be a key driver in raising the profile of clinical governance and risk management, highlighting in practice the relationship between patient safety and the management and everyday clinical practice and the effects on the patient to identify areas of good practice and highlight areas that can be improved.

Person specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential criteria

Degree level qualification and evidence of CPD
Post-graduate qualification to Masters level or significant experience in clinical practice, involvement in developing practice, clinical risk management and/or clinical audit/QI

Desirable criteria

Qualification or CPD relevant to patient safety/clinical governance/quality improvement
Masters level qualification in a related topic.
Management qualification or experience

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

Proven experience in a clinical leadership role including involvement in incident reporting and investigation.
In depth knowledge of clinical governance frameworks, QI methodologies and patient safety principles.
Evidence of continuous professional and personal development
Project leadership
Production of written work to a high standard within tight deadlines

Desirable criteria

Evidence of leading programme/programmes of education and/or training

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in person and written
Analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends and lead data driven improvement initiatives
Presentation skills, computer use including word processing, Excel and database

Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e‑mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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