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Clinical Quality Practitioner - Childrens (XR07)

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

The closing date is 23 May 2025

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Job summary

Expected Shortlisting Date

23/05/2025

Planned Interview Date

02/06/2025

An exciting opportunity for an experienced, highly motivated passionate and proactive nurse to join the quality team.

A Quality Nurse is responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care within the Childrens hospital. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with teams to identify, assess, and implement strategies to improve patient outcomes and promote a culture of quality.

The role will form the Clinical effectiveness arm of the Quality team, acting on and responding to emerging patient safety issues and risks. Key responsibilities will include:

-Helping to progress the ward accreditation program for the Childrens Hospital

-Supporting QI projects for patient safety including pressure ulcers, falls and medication errors.

- The continued implementation and monitoring of standards of practice

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Childrens Nurse who has a passion for patient safety and Quality. Is a critical thinker able to work alongside and in partnership with different teams possessing emotional intelligence to be able to do so in sometimes challenging circumstances. Confidence in prioritisation and managing your own workload is essential.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work across the Childrens Hospital to support the delivery of quality governance, ensuring the fundamental standards of quality and safety are met.

The post holder will direct, coordinate, supervise and in collaboration with the The Childrens hospital management team ensure the provision of an efficient and effective service.

The Clinical Quality Practitioner will promote an environment which is conducive to learning, to enable personal and professional development of all team members.

The post holder will be required to be clinically competent and maintain competence in all aspects of nursing care and disseminate specialist knowledge & skills through experience, education and training.

The Clinical Quality Practitioner will support the CSU to improve the patient experience and to enhance staff, patient and public involvement in service changes. This role is fundamental in supporting the improvements within the service delivered by the Childrens Hopsital from a quality, clinical governance and standards of practice perspective.

The post holder will work closely with the Lead Nurse for Quality and Governance ensuring robust systems for quality, safety and governance are in place.

About us

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centred

Collaborative

Fair

Accountable

Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:

The beliefs and attitudes that underpin effective performance within the job role. Emphasis should be on the requirements of the role not the individual when completing this section. Examples might include: quality focus, mistakes are used as a continual learning experience, honesty, integrity etc.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Date posted

02 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9298-CHI-0370

Job locations

Leeds General Infirmary

Great George Street

Leeds

LS13EX

Job description

Job responsibilities

Quality

Lead on all aspects of quality within the CSU, ensuring standards are communicated and maintained and regular audits are undertaken.

Proactively forge and nurture good working relationships

Monitor available data/intelligence on quality to identify any trends and performance profiles

Undertake and supervise Route Cause Analysis/Patient safety learning investigations (RCA) looking at learning required and monitoring action plans.

Identify training needs of groups and individuals to support service and quality improvement

Facilitate group problem solving using known service improvement tools and techniques, driving and challenging to innovate

Attend CSU and Trust meetings to report on quality related issues, actions and outcomes.

Assist the HoN/Lead Nurse to improve, devise and implement consistent processes and systems for quality surveillance and assurance

Clinical

Work with ward managers/ Lead Nurse to ensure the development of nursing practice, reflecting the CSU and corporate Nursing objectives

Provide a clinical lead and role model to the nursing team by delivering high quality care as an expert practitioner

Ensure the delivery of high quality care through the setting & monitoring of standards, and benchmarking using nursing metrics e.g. the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Perfect ward and NMC standards

Ensure accurate and contemporaneous records (both paper and electronic) are maintained and updated using Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trusts documentation

Work with ward managers/ Lead Nurse to ensure that clinical governance processes encompass measures to ensure the quality of the fundamental and essential aspects of care

Support the implementation of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Nursing Care standards Work with Infection Control to monitor the environment to maintain and raise standards

Acts in accordance with the Nursing & Midwifery code of conduct

Ensure management of clinical services and efficient redeployment of staff according to service needs

Work with other members of the MDT to coordinate and participate in the development, implementation and evaluation of professional policies that affect your area

Acts in such a way that safeguards the health and well-being of children and vulnerable adults at all times. Is familiar with and adheres to the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Safeguarding Policies.

Management

Provide leadership to the clinical team and working with ward managers/Lead Nurse, develop new roles/ways of working

Delegate and empower staff without abdicating overall, continuing responsibility

Investigate and respond to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events

Lead and regularly participate in policy or service changes

Actively promote the incident reporting process, following appropriate training implement root cause analysis and devise an appropriate action plan, liaising where appropriate with the ward managers/Lead Nurse.

Raise concerns with regards to risk, danger, malpractice or wrong doing by following the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trusts Whistle Blowing Policy and supporting procedures.

Education

Ensure all staff have an individual performance development plan and work with clinical nurse educators where shortfalls are highlighted

Ensure all nursing staff maintain mandatory training requirement

Ensure implementation of the Trusts Study Leave policy

Ensure the induction and on-going development of staff

Promote and contribute to the development of a positive learning environment within the clinical area

Maintain detailed and accurate records regarding staff education and attendance management

Assist and facilitate in the supervision of pre and post registration nurses, specialist courses

Ensure continued personal development of knowledge and expert skills

Provide teaching, instruction and assessment to other professionals as required.

Core Values

Commitment to delivering high quality evidence based care

Commitment to working in a multi-disciplinary team

Commitment to promoting a positive and creative working environment

Commitment to own development and the development of junior staff

Promotes a professional image and a positive approach to problem solving

Promotes a culture of equality, mutual respect, diversity and trust

Commitment to maintaining standards through education, training and development

Commitment to support, uphold and demonstrate the core values and behaviours of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Core Behaviours and Skills

Teaching and assessing skills

Communication skills, ability to communicate to large groups complex messages

Time management skills, the ability to prioritise workload

Commitment to team working promoting a culture of trust and respect

Ability to act professionally at all times

Understanding of the process of change

To resolve and manage conflict particularly when delivering emotive messages

Uses initiative to resolve issues within their own control

Audit and risk management skills

Ability to manage data from a variety of sources and formulate into user friendly information

Ability to positively lead change, modernisation and new ways of working

Communicates with Patient and Public Involvement Groups in line with Trust policy

Core Knowledge and Understanding

An understanding of the organisational structure and working practices of the organisation

Understanding of the local and national nursing agenda

Awareness of Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust guidelines and policies

Understanding of National Service Frameworks