Job summary
An exciting, fixed term or secondment opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual. The ideal candidate will have previous experience of working with clinical governance and patient safety, and an understanding of mortality surveillance data and managing dashboards. They will be educated to post graduate level (or have an equivalent qualification or experience).
The post holder will require excellent communication and negotiation skills in order to write and present reports and potentially challenge colleagues across all levels of seniority and across all departments within the Trust.
The Integrated Governance Manager will lead on Trust mortality surveillance and monitoring as well asprovide appropriate advice and support in relation to organisational governance process. The post holder will work also alongside and support senior Trust leaders in quality and patient safety, as the Trust transitions towards the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework as part of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy. We are looking for someone who is passionate about improving patient safety through learning and improvement and who is dedicated to championing a positive and open safety culture.
The post holder will be able to work autonomously and as part of a team, supervising other staff and delivering against key objective.
Main duties of the job
- Interview Date: 5 December 2023
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37 hours 30 minutes/week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
This role works within the Patient Safety Team within the Clinical Governance and Risk Department.
The post holder will have a Trust-wide remit with responsibility for leading and facilitating developments in mortality surveillance, working closely with the Trust Medical Examiners. As we transition to a new structure across the organisation, this post holder will also be responsible for supporting Clinical Boards with their quality and safety governance and will work closely with the Board Quality and Safety Leads as well as the Patient Safety Manager and Trust Patient Safety Specialists.
About us
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description:
- To lead on mortality surveillance and monitoring, supporting the quality review process and also being responsible for supporting a number of key Trust Quality and safety priorities
- To lead on the effective use of obtaining data from quality management systems
- To lead on the production of various clinical effectiveness dashboards, including medical revalidation and mortality monitoring.
- Provision of training for clinical and non-clinical users of data capture and Datix incident reporting and risk register systems
- Using the risk management systems, support Directorates to identify key patient safety and risk areas.
- To lead on mortality surveillance and monitoring, supporting the quality review process and also being responsible for supporting a number of key Trust Quality and safety priorities
- To lead on the effective use of obtaining data from quality management systems
- To lead on the production of various clinical effectiveness dashboards, including medical revalidation and mortality monitoring.
- Provision of training for clinical and non-clinical users of data capture and Datix incident reporting and risk register systems
- Using the risk management systems, support Clinical Boards to identify key patient safety and risk areas.
- Support the Root cause analysis/incident investigation process to ensure lessons are learnt and shared, particularly in relation to SUI monitoring of unexpected deaths.
- To ensure that the Trust continues to comply with a number of NHSLA risk management standards
- To contribute to the CQC assurance process for relevant risk related outcomes.
Main responsibilities:
- Responsibility for the production of various clinical effectiveness dashboards including medical revalidation, mortality monitoring and clinical indicator monitoring.
- Provide reports to Trust Board and sub-committees in relation to Mortality monitoring and clinical effectiveness.
- Responsibility for specific National and local audits.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description:
- To lead on mortality surveillance and monitoring, supporting the quality review process and also being responsible for supporting a number of key Trust Quality and safety priorities
- To lead on the effective use of obtaining data from quality management systems
- To lead on the production of various clinical effectiveness dashboards, including medical revalidation and mortality monitoring.
- Provision of training for clinical and non-clinical users of data capture and Datix incident reporting and risk register systems
- Using the risk management systems, support Directorates to identify key patient safety and risk areas.
- To lead on mortality surveillance and monitoring, supporting the quality review process and also being responsible for supporting a number of key Trust Quality and safety priorities
- To lead on the effective use of obtaining data from quality management systems
- To lead on the production of various clinical effectiveness dashboards, including medical revalidation and mortality monitoring.
- Provision of training for clinical and non-clinical users of data capture and Datix incident reporting and risk register systems
- Using the risk management systems, support Clinical Boards to identify key patient safety and risk areas.
- Support the Root cause analysis/incident investigation process to ensure lessons are learnt and shared, particularly in relation to SUI monitoring of unexpected deaths.
- To ensure that the Trust continues to comply with a number of NHSLA risk management standards
- To contribute to the CQC assurance process for relevant risk related outcomes.
Main responsibilities:
- Responsibility for the production of various clinical effectiveness dashboards including medical revalidation, mortality monitoring and clinical indicator monitoring.
- Provide reports to Trust Board and sub-committees in relation to Mortality monitoring and clinical effectiveness.
- Responsibility for specific National and local audits.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Degree level qualification
- Post-graduate qualification to Masters level or equivalent experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of risk registers, quality management systems and data capture.
- Extensive experience of healthcare systems
- Experience negotiating with senior managers
- Experience delivering training to large audiences
- Knowledge and understanding of legislation and regulations
- Detailed understanding of the concepts of Risk Management, Quality and Patient Safety
Desirable
- Experience of current generation IT systems
- Knowledge of Datix System
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and presentational skills, and ability to represent the Directorate engendering respect and confidence and explain complex issues to managers and colleagues
- Ability to think strategically and creatively, and contribute to success of the Directorate
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Degree level qualification
- Post-graduate qualification to Masters level or equivalent experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of risk registers, quality management systems and data capture.
- Extensive experience of healthcare systems
- Experience negotiating with senior managers
- Experience delivering training to large audiences
- Knowledge and understanding of legislation and regulations
- Detailed understanding of the concepts of Risk Management, Quality and Patient Safety
Desirable
- Experience of current generation IT systems
- Knowledge of Datix System
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and presentational skills, and ability to represent the Directorate engendering respect and confidence and explain complex issues to managers and colleagues
- Ability to think strategically and creatively, and contribute to success of the Directorate
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).
