Job summary
Are you passionate about improving patient care and driving quality standards? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment, working across teams to deliver real change? If so, we invite you to apply for the role ofCo-ordinator - Quality and Patient Safetywithin the Medical Director's Quality and Patient Safety Team at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
As a key member of our Quality and Patient Safety Team, the post holder will support senior managers within the Medical Director's Quality and Patient Safety Team and will contribute to delivering high-quality patient safety initiatives and ensuring effective collaboration across the Health Board.
The role focuses on managing and co-ordinating Quality and Patient Safety performance assurance functions, embedding quality and safety within care provision, and promoting a culture of learning and improvement.
Additionally we welcome applications from registered healthcare professionals who bring expertise, innovation, and a commitment to patient safety (registration is not mandatory for this role).
Main duties of the job
- Co-ordinate and monitor clinical audit programmes, ensuring compliance with national standards and local priorities.
- Support the implementation of NICE and Health Technology Wales guidance, patient safety solutions, and mortality review processes.
- Analyse and interpret complex data from national audits and internal systems, producing reports, dashboards, and presentations for senior leadership.
- Support the Deteriorating Patient and Sepsis Strategy.
- Act as a key liaison between clinical teams, divisional leads, and corporate functions to promote shared ownership of quality and patient safety outcomes.
- Maintain confidentiality and compliance with GDPR and Health Board policies at all times.
About us
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac
Job description
Job responsibilities
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to work as part of a team to achieve success
- Self-motivated and ability to work unsupervised effectively
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to work on own initiative within guidelines
- Ability to work calmly under pressure and check own work in an objective manner
- Flexible in approach and able to respond to sudden, unexpected demands
- Satisfactory Standard/Enhanced DBS clearance including Adults and Children's Barred List check
- Ability to be independently mobile to meet the requirements of the post, including travelling to different Health Board sites
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Degree or equivalent demonstrable level of knowledge and experience
- ECDL or equivalent level of proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and other standard business management systems used by the Health Board
- IQT Bronze
- Evidence of Continual Professional Development
- An appropriate qualification and/or Health Board experience in audit methodologies
Desirable
- Project management qualification/experience
Experience
Essential
- Clinical Audit Theory and Practice
- Knowledge of Evidence Based Guidance and Practice, Clinical Effectiveness, Clinical Governance
- Evaluation and analysis of data
- Experience of using ABUHB Information Systems, including Myrddin, CWS and Datix
- Involvement in quality improvement project
- Writing reports and presenting data
- Literature searches
- Understanding of the NHS
Desirable
- Statistical Process Control theory
- Model for Improvement Methodology for Improvement
- Experience in providing training and developing workshops
- Experience in presenting to groups with audio-visual aids
- Participation in wider clinical governance issues
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to convey highly complex statistical or technical information to a small group of multidisciplinary staff
- Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written
- High standard of report writing skills
- Advanced IT skills in Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, browser technology and keyboard use
- Experience of using PowerPoint for presentations
- Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
- Able to demonstrate a high degree of numeracy skills and an ability to think analytically
- Excellent data manipulation skills, including databases and spreadsheets and ability to extract, collate, analyse and summarise data in tables, charts and pivot tables
- Excellent Time Management skills and the ability to prioritise
- Skills for supporting project management
Desirable
- Ability to present to a wider audience
- Ability to speak Welsh
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to work as part of a team to achieve success
- Self-motivated and ability to work unsupervised effectively
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to work on own initiative within guidelines
- Ability to work calmly under pressure and check own work in an objective manner
- Flexible in approach and able to respond to sudden, unexpected demands
- Satisfactory Standard/Enhanced DBS clearance including Adults and Children's Barred List check
- Ability to be independently mobile to meet the requirements of the post, including travelling to different Health Board sites
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Degree or equivalent demonstrable level of knowledge and experience
- ECDL or equivalent level of proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and other standard business management systems used by the Health Board
- IQT Bronze
- Evidence of Continual Professional Development
- An appropriate qualification and/or Health Board experience in audit methodologies
Desirable
- Project management qualification/experience
Experience
Essential
- Clinical Audit Theory and Practice
- Knowledge of Evidence Based Guidance and Practice, Clinical Effectiveness, Clinical Governance
- Evaluation and analysis of data
- Experience of using ABUHB Information Systems, including Myrddin, CWS and Datix
- Involvement in quality improvement project
- Writing reports and presenting data
- Literature searches
- Understanding of the NHS
Desirable
- Statistical Process Control theory
- Model for Improvement Methodology for Improvement
- Experience in providing training and developing workshops
- Experience in presenting to groups with audio-visual aids
- Participation in wider clinical governance issues
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to convey highly complex statistical or technical information to a small group of multidisciplinary staff
- Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written
- High standard of report writing skills
- Advanced IT skills in Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, browser technology and keyboard use
- Experience of using PowerPoint for presentations
- Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
- Able to demonstrate a high degree of numeracy skills and an ability to think analytically
- Excellent data manipulation skills, including databases and spreadsheets and ability to extract, collate, analyse and summarise data in tables, charts and pivot tables
- Excellent Time Management skills and the ability to prioritise
- Skills for supporting project management
Desirable
- Ability to present to a wider audience
- Ability to speak Welsh
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).
