Job summary
Employer heading
Cardiothoracic Audit Nurse/Physiologist/Radiographer/ODP
Band 5
Job overview
Do you fancy a change? Do you want to do something different whilst still using your clinical skills and experience? Do you want to be part of a unique team monitoring and evaluating patient outcomes and improving patient care?
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Cardiothoracic Audit Department due to a recent vacancy and expansion of our team.
We are now looking to recruit a Band 5 Audit Nurse/AHP to work as part of our team.
The purpose of the role is to support the Cardiothoracic Audit Lead nurses and team to develop, implement and monitor an agreed programme of clinical audit and quality improvement with a focus on national cardiac audit requirements.
This role will be based at the James Cook University Hospital and will fulfil all tasks and work as part of a team to meet the needs of the service.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for individual who is committed to make a difference to patient care.
The successful candidate will have a professional qualification in health care e.g. RN or AHP and currently registered with a professional body.
· Collect and validate data for any of the national clinical audits and exported registries that apply to the Cardiothoracic and Cardiology Services (Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia)
· Work collaboratively with all members of MDT to ensure that data is exported to the essential NICOR databases to achieve national data quality and completeness standards within the submission deadlines set by NICOR and NHS England
· Support the Audit Lead Nurse in the delivery of the national audit agenda within the Cardiothoracic Services Directorate
· Support the Cardiothoracic audit team to ensure excellence in audit support for the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Care Services
This post may close at sufficient applicants.
Working for our organisation
Leadership and Improvement Training
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to
Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bite-size programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Good Microsoft Office skills
- Previous experience of participating in a service improvement or clinical audit project
- Good Cardiothoracic and/or Cardiology clinical knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Basic data analysis experience
- Experience with Cardiothoracic/Cardiology national audit data
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Microsoft Excel and Access
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in health care e.g. RN or AHP
- Currently Registered with a health care professional body
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at the leadership and development and improvement programme (4.5 days)
- Service improvement course or equivalent
- Excel training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Cardiothoracic and/or Cardiology experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a clinical audit team
- Previous NHS experience
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to plan own work to enable required deadlines to be met
- Excellent verbal and communication skills
- Professional and diplomatic attitude to work
- Maintains confidentiality at all times
- Positive and forward-thinking attitude
- Attention to detail
- An understanding of our Trust values
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of presenting
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lesley Day
- Job title
- Cardiothoracic Audit Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01642 850850
- Additional information
Lesley Day - ext. 57434
Tracey Smailes, Cardiothoracic Audit Lead Nurse
ext. 57604
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
The Recruitment Team
The Murray Building
The James Cook University Hospital
TS4 3BW
- Telephone
- 01642 850850, ext. 57396
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