Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a divisional governance and assurance officer to work within the Corporate Cancer Services team.
The post holder will work closely with the Corporate Cancer Nursing Team and Site Divisional Governance Teams, promoting and facilitating the Quality Governance Framework within the Division. Applicants should have a good understanding and knowledge of the Governance agenda across the NHS.
Reporting to the Assistant Director of Nursing for Cancer, the post holder will have responsibility for supporting all aspects of governance across the Division, including incident and complaint management, risk, and clinical audit and effectiveness processes.
The post holder will have good analytical skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills. Candidates should have skills and experience of key governance and assurance principles. This role also requires individuals with excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage their own workload without supervision within a busy environment
Main duties of the job
Support the Cancer Services team in the development, implementation and monitoring of a standardised quality and governance framework, including risk management and clinical effectiveness
To support the Service in the monitoring of Divisional Risk Register
To support the Clinical Director and Associate Director of Nursing Nurse in monitoring and reporting of all outstanding actions associated with mitigation of risks within the Service
Support the service in monitoring and reporting compliance with local SOP's, quality standards and service specification, identifying deficiencies and developing mitigations and action plans
Support the trust wide Cancer Harm Review process, coordinating and managing the returns for external submission and development of thematic reports to inform the Cancer Improvement Programme.
Support the delivery of excellent Cancer MDT governance through the Cancer Improvement Programme
Support the divisional review of incidents in line with the patient safety framework. Highlighting cases for further review mini-initial analysis reports, writing timelines, supporting High Impact Learning assessment meetings and supporting the learning response lead as required.
Support the implementation of Learning from Death Reports review across the Cancer Services Division assisting with investigations required and lessons learned needs.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Promote and facilitate the development of effective governance andassurance. Provide support to key leaders within their area of responsibility in the delivery of their governance objectives. This will include clinical directors, care group leads, audit and governance leads, matrons and ward managers. Support local identification of incidents requiring more detailed investigation Aug 2023 or review
Support the effective monitoring of the Trusts Risk, Incident and Complaints process within their area of responsibility. Lead the oversight of concise investigations, duty of candour compliance and learning from events within their area of responsibility. Provide leaders with regular data and reports that support them to take action and implement learning Implement systems and processes for effective and proactive dissemination of information arising from investigations and reviews to promote the sharing of information and lessons learnt. Act as local point of contact for the Datix system and ensure theadministrative requirements of incident, complaint and risk managementprocess are met. Assist in the development of local policies and procedures associated with governance and assurance and the promotion of good documentmanagement practices in their area of responsibility, ensuring all are updated within the appropriate time frame. Provide support to the Governance Lead in the delivery of key governance objectives. Work closely with the Governance and Assurance Administrator. Work alongside colleagues in other key roles within the governance structure to ensure your areas of responsibility look at data and identify learning collaboratively Establish and maintain close working relationships with the Patient Advice and Complaints Team. Establish and maintain close working relationships with Legal and RiskManagers established within the Trust. Attend local meetings in relation to governance.
Support the Cancer Services governance structure ensuring that significant meetings have robust administration in place and that Trust policy and procedure are followed to ensure compliance with the respective terms of reference.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Promote and facilitate the development of effective governance andassurance. Provide support to key leaders within their area of responsibility in the delivery of their governance objectives. This will include clinical directors, care group leads, audit and governance leads, matrons and ward managers. Support local identification of incidents requiring more detailed investigation Aug 2023 or review
Support the effective monitoring of the Trusts Risk, Incident and Complaints process within their area of responsibility. Lead the oversight of concise investigations, duty of candour compliance and learning from events within their area of responsibility. Provide leaders with regular data and reports that support them to take action and implement learning Implement systems and processes for effective and proactive dissemination of information arising from investigations and reviews to promote the sharing of information and lessons learnt. Act as local point of contact for the Datix system and ensure theadministrative requirements of incident, complaint and risk managementprocess are met. Assist in the development of local policies and procedures associated with governance and assurance and the promotion of good documentmanagement practices in their area of responsibility, ensuring all are updated within the appropriate time frame. Provide support to the Governance Lead in the delivery of key governance objectives. Work closely with the Governance and Assurance Administrator. Work alongside colleagues in other key roles within the governance structure to ensure your areas of responsibility look at data and identify learning collaboratively Establish and maintain close working relationships with the Patient Advice and Complaints Team. Establish and maintain close working relationships with Legal and RiskManagers established within the Trust. Attend local meetings in relation to governance.
Support the Cancer Services governance structure ensuring that significant meetings have robust administration in place and that Trust policy and procedure are followed to ensure compliance with the respective terms of reference.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of applying key governance and assurance principles
- Demonstrable experience of risk & incident management in a health care setting
Knowledge
Essential
- Basic knowledge of risk management principles
Desirable
- Good understanding of the Governance agenda across the NHS
- Knowledge of Risk, Clinical Audit & Effectiveness, Regulatory Compliance and Incident and Complaints management processes
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to carry out incident investigations
- Ability to convert complex sensitive medical information into "layman's terms".
- Ability to communicate with staff at all levels of the organisation and with patients.
- Ability to present information utilising basic IT skills
- Ability to interpret data and present in excel
- Understanding of the Serious Incident Framework and Governance agenda
- Ability to motivate, persuade and negotiate in pressurised and difficult situations.
- Ability to manage own workload without supervision
- Excellent organisational skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of applying key governance and assurance principles
- Demonstrable experience of risk & incident management in a health care setting
Knowledge
Essential
- Basic knowledge of risk management principles
Desirable
- Good understanding of the Governance agenda across the NHS
- Knowledge of Risk, Clinical Audit & Effectiveness, Regulatory Compliance and Incident and Complaints management processes
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to carry out incident investigations
- Ability to convert complex sensitive medical information into "layman's terms".
- Ability to communicate with staff at all levels of the organisation and with patients.
- Ability to present information utilising basic IT skills
- Ability to interpret data and present in excel
- Understanding of the Serious Incident Framework and Governance agenda
- Ability to motivate, persuade and negotiate in pressurised and difficult situations.
- Ability to manage own workload without supervision
- Excellent organisational skills
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
