Job responsibilities
Main Duties - To provide leadership and support strategically across Shaftesbury to further
develop and establish best practice based clinical governance processes.
Maintain clinical quality across services in order to identify any learning or
concerns in a timely manner.
Continue to develop clinical audit programme across the organisation to enable
the organisation to understand effectiveness of its services and areas for
improvement and development.
Continuously review Clinical Governance processes to ensure that they provide a
robust framework for a safe and high quality service whilst meeting statutory
requirements.
Promote positive experience and wellbeing for the people we support and
facilitate the best outcome together and with them.
Identify policies and procedures that need to be in place within the organisation.
Have responsibility for developing these policies in partnership with appropriate
professionals within their ability and ensure timely review.
The Clinical Quality Lead will be responsible for leading, overseeing, evaluating
and developing practice for their discipline across Shaftesbury.
Support the development clinical quality improvement plans
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Ensure that NICE and other clinical guidance and alerts are distributed across the
organisation.
Ensure the governance systems contributes to the development and
implementation of evidence-based protocols, documentation processes,
standards, policies and clinical guidelines, through interpreting and synthesising
information from a variety of sources and promoting their use in practice
To analyse clinical risk, incidents and near misses and ensure that lessons
learned are captured and are reflected in improvement plans.
Work with the safeguarding lead with regards to clinical incidents and support
clinical safeguarding processes across services as required.
Work closely with the learning academy and clinical roles within it to identify
training and learning needs across services in order to ensure services are
delivering the highest quality of care.
Further develop systems which ensure clinical information is collated
organisationally for analysis and shared with the executive team and Trustees.
Producing the required monthly reports.
Ensuring that NICE guidance relevant to services, is cascaded and communicated
via the Clinical Governance Steering Group and compliance with such guidance is
monitored and reported to the Steering Group.
Lead on quality improvement projects relating to agreed priorities, which
contribute to ensuring the much-improved outcomes for the people who use
Shaftesbury service.
Undertake audit of services and work closely with members of the quality,
compliance and innovation team.
Work with the Quality Improvement partners when auditing nursing and
rehabilitation services.
To take part in the National on call arrangements, to ensure we are able to
provide frontline operational teams with the appropriate support at all times. This
will be on a rota arrangement and assigned in a consultative way.
Coach/mentor members of the quality team to enable accurate audit of
nursing/rehabilitation resources.
Essential Functions
Engage internal and external stakeholders, using effective negotiating and
influencing skills to develop and improve practices.
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Be receptive to challenge and prepared to challenge others, escalating when
necessary concerns that affect patient safety and best practice
Critically apply legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures
and codes of conduct.
Be an integral member of the quality, Compliance and Quality Team, ensuring the
safety of people we support. Ensure clinical assurance, serious incident
investigations and associated learning, clinical governance oversight and
contributing to the development of services.
Contribute to, and lead on, the development of quality and assurance reports for
regular and ad hoc meetings.
Advise the Lead for Quality, Compliance and innovation, Director of Operations on
safety issues, fitness to practice and wider clinical quality issues.
Play a key role in providing clinical quality advice and support to the Quality,
Compliance and Innovation Team, executive team, Area managers, Registered
Managers, clinical and care workforce ensuring a seamless quality response for
the areas that they oversee. Monitor and develop quality initiatives in line with local and national requirements
and guidelines; take a lead role in the facilitation of such initiatives
Attend relevant meetings regularly to influence clinical governance decisions
making with regards to service delivery provision, quality, audit and safety.
Manage own diary and workload
Act in such a way as to be a credible, effective leader, demonstrating effective
clinical leadership on a daily basis
Undertake clinical supervisions as necessary for appropriate clinical professionals.
Competencies
Practice autonomously, whilst being accountable and self-directed, in line with the
Nursing and Midwifery Council code of professional conduct.
Have advanced communication skills in presenting, decision-making and problemsolving skills.
Work in partnership with others; delegate and refer as appropriate to optimise
health outcomes and resource use; and provide direct support regarding clinical
quality matters across Shaftesbury.
Will work in partnership to identify and safeguard against abuse and support
people to manage and live their lives.
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Use their professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care
events, and capture the learning from these experiences to improve service
delivery and quality.
Work collaboratively and draw upon an appropriate range of multi-agency and
inter-professional resources in their practice
Able to analyse complex clinical information, identify required improvements and
develop plans for implementation.
Generate and apply new knowledge to their own and others practice in structured
ways.
Work collaboratively to identify and meet the learning and development needs of
others, as appropriate
Advocate and contribute to the development of an organisational culture that
supports continuous learning and development, evidence-based practice and
succession planning
Work Environment
This is a home based role, however the role will require extensive travel across the
UK either for audits or meetings.
Physical Demands
For the demanding but rewarding role of Clinical Quality Lead, you must be prepared
to travel throughout the UK.
Working Relationships
Internal Close working relationship with the Quality, compliance and innovation
team, The Learning Academy, Area Managers and Registered Managers.
External External partners and stakeholders including referrers and suppliers
This job description and person specification is not exhaustive and amendments and
additions may be required in line with future changes in the post holders duties.
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Physical Demands
Essential Experience
Qualifications:
First level registration Adult Nurse