Job summary
- Main area
- Governance
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 225-CORP-5831017
- Employer
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- New Cross
- Town
- Wolverhampton
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/07/2024 09:00
Employer heading
Governance Officer
Band 5
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and results driven individual to fill the above key role within the Trust.
The candidate will be responsible for the promotion and delivery of the governance/assurance agenda within Directorates. Your main activities will centre on co-ordinating, facilitating and managing numerous Governance work-streams for a range of specialties. Excellent communication and negotiation skills are required in order to present reports, both written and verbal to a wide range of professionals across the organisation. You must be able to identify problems/ concerns and suggest solutions/ changes in practice in collaboration with appropriate multi-disciplinary teams to support continuous quality improvements.
Main duties of the job
To support and facilitate the delivery of the Directorates responsibilities in relation to the Governance and Assurance agenda including incident management, risk management, Duty of Candour, NICE guidance compliance and clinical audit. Ensuring Directorates are aware of their responsibilities and identification of key areas of concern or opportunities for shared learning. Providing expert advise and support on key work-steams.
To work under direction, within the Assurance Team, to implement continuous quality improvement activities identified by the Assurance Department, Divisions and Directorates as part of the Trust Assurance work programmes.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To assist, facilitate, support and provide guidance to directorates in all areas of governance/assurance.
To assist in delivering a work programme which enables directorates to undertake quality improvement activities, which include:
- Incident reporting and management
- Duty of Candour
- Risk management
- Compliance standards (including, Health & Safety, Information Governance, external accreditation standards)
Monitor the implementation of NICE guidance and External agency visits.
To support the Directorates in the development and implementation of a rolling annual programme of prioritised audit which is linked to both local and national requirements.
In conjunction with the Compliance Team to assist Directorates with the identification and collation of evidence for the following:
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- Care Quality Commission (CQC)
- Information Governance (IG), including Data Protection Act
- Health & Safety
To assist directorates with aspects of data management relating to governance activities and accreditation systems. This may include data collation, database development and management, data manipulation, data presentation, report generation from existing systems.
To plan and deliver specialist training and maintain appropriate materials and literature for training purposes.
To facilitate the learning of lessons across the Trust.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- NVQ4 in relevant subject plus NHS experience OR Professional qualification
Experience/Skills
Essential criteria
- Understanding of risk management processes and procedures
- Identifies problems and suggests solutions or improvements
- Good understanding of the principles of Clinical &/or Corporate Governance
- Good understanding of quality improvement techniques- e.g. clinical audit, risk management, complaints
Desirable criteria
- Good understanding of healthcare and risk management accreditation systems
- Implementing Clinical Audit, Incident and Risk management systems
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
- Joanne Colgan
- Job title
- Healthcare Governance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07385425590
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