Deputy Divisional Governance Lead (MCEC)

Job responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities:

Responsibility with the Governance Manager for the delivery of the Clinical risk Management and Clinical Governance agenda within the Division

Promotes cultural change and service ownership of being open and Duty of Candour process, through role modelling, advice and support.

Facilitates investigations and After Action Reviews/debriefs to clinical teams following incident investigations

Provides thematic analysis of complaints and PALS concerns, identifying potential clinical risk and learning

Promotes a patient safety culture, supporting service areas to improve care practice, systems and awareness following clinical incidents.

Managerial responsibilities:

Facilitates the effective delivery of Clinical Governance and risk activities across defined area within the Division

Support the Specialty/Departmental Clinical Governance Committees and liaise with the leads to ensure the appropriate agenda and actions are followed and facilitating learning across the division.

Responsible for leading on investigations into patient safety incidents across the Division collating complex information, communicating with staff, patients and relatives. Responsible for supporting complaint investigation officers to investigate complaints and produce timely and comprehensive responses to formal complaints.

Support the Division to achieve compliance with best clinical practice and external National requirements e.g. CQC.

Responsible with the Governance team for co-ordinating and facilitating systems and processes across the Division to ensure the dissemination and implementation of lessons learnt from PSIs, Complaints, audit results, internal and external reviews and recommendations.

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Deputise for the Divisional Governance Manager at both Division and Trust meetings when required.

Please see attached job description for more information.

Education and Training

Essential

• Education to Degree level or equivalent
• Registered qualification in medicine/nursing/AHPs
• Post Graduate Qualification in Risk Management or equivalent experience.

Desirable

• Additional RCA risk management training/education
• Datix user

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• oKnowledge of Databases, MS Word and Excel
• oAwareness of the Trust Incident Reporting Procedure
• oAwareness and understanding of NHSLA standards & assessment process
• oDemonstrate an understanding of the role CQC
• oUnderstanding of the risk assessment process
• oUnderstanding of Clinical Governance Agenda
• oAdvanced report writing skills
• oAbility to work within a multi-professional team and to develop team working
• oHighly motivated with excellent negotiation and persuasion skills and an ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships with all professional disciplines
• oAbility to analyse highly complex clinical issues/problems, identify necessary action and make recommendations and follow these through
• oPro-active approach to problem solving with a proven ability in the formation and drafting of policy/strategy within national guidelines

Desirable

• oAwareness of Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

Experience

Essential

• oExtensive relevant experience in an acute hospital setting
• oExperience of training staff
• oExperience of undertaking risk assessments and contributing to the local risk register
• oExperience investigating incidents and complaints
• oExperience in working with a broad range of staff
• oExperience of promoting a patient safety culture, supporting service areas to improve care practice, systems and awareness following clinical incidents and patient feedback.
• oRisk management and assessment

Personal Attributes

Essential

• oAwareness for the need of confidentiality
• oGood previous attendance record
• oLeaderships skills
• oArticulate
• oFlexible approach to working hours and practices

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).