Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Effectiveness Unit
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-7593-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Hallamshire Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/05/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Effectiveness Facilitator
NHS AfC: Band 5
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Are you interested in improving patient care? Do you want to make a difference?
If so, come and develop your knowledge and skills and equip yourself to help drive the quality agenda in the Trust.
Applications are invited from highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join the Clinical Effectiveness Unit as a project Facilitator. Working within an established team, the successful candidate will be expected to provide advice and support to clinicians on a variety of multi-professional clinical effectiveness projects.
Main duties of the job
Provide a specialist advice and support service to healthcare professionals with the aim of promoting evidence-based practice and ultimately improving the quality & outcomes of clinical care for patients.
Have key involvement in the delivery of a prioritised Trust Clinical Audit Programme of projects.
Communicate audit results and other clinical effectiveness information (e.g. basic training on clinical audit methods), both orally and in writing, to multi-disciplinary / speciality clinical audiences
Liaise with clinicians and other healthcare professionals for the development of audit project databases and advise on data analysis methods.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-graduation experience of working in a multidisciplinary healthcare environment & liaising with healthcare professionals.
- Report writing / presentation experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in clinical audit, research or patient experience
- Experience of co-ordinating teams, teaching small groups, interviewing patients
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Excellent clinical audit knowledge & skills
- Excellent analytical skills and experience of data management e.g. data analysis, interpretation of results, basic statistics
Desirable criteria
- Clinical effectiveness skills e.g. literature searching, critical appraisal, study design
- Knowledge of hospital information systems and coding principles
Other Factors
Essential criteria
- Flexible, can demonstrate able to work as part of a team or independently
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of confidentiality and medical terminology • accurate • thorough • persistent • tactful and diplomatic
Special Skills/Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to relate effectively with senior clinical / managerial staff.
- Excellent organisational skills with ability to prioritise workload and use initiative
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Professional package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access database design)
Desirable criteria
- Time management skills with ability to work to tight deadlines
- Knowledge of statistical packages (esp. SPSS)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Janet Brain
- Job title
- Senior Manager, Clinical Effectiveness
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01142713858
- Additional information
Best contacted via e-mail
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