Quality Governance Manager Visa Sponsorship Uk

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our trust has around 10,000 employees who serve 1.6 million patients. It includes Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, and the Royal Free Hospital, as well as over 30 community services. This larger-scale organisation gives us an unprecedented chance to continue our pioneering work, particularly in identifying methods to provide even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to provide world-class care and expertise in our clinical services, supported by world-class teaching and research, and we will continue to track our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, safety and compliance with external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We are proud of our diversity, and we continue to launch new projects to improve equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers, and persons with disabilities, as well as to encourage good relations and understanding among our employees.

Detailed job description and primary responsibilities

1. Responsibilities.

Incident, Risk, and Investigations

Maintain professional conduct at all times and promote a favourable image of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust in accordance with World Class Care values.

Access, monitor, and review clinical occurrences recorded through the Trust’s incident reporting system (DCIQ). Liaise with senior nursing teams and the clinical governance lead to ensure that investigations are completed and submitted within the Trust’s timeframes.

Collaborate with the Head of Quality Governance to oversee and manage all areas of the quality governance agenda, including the development of an effective patient safety framework that is quality-centric.

Ensure that the rolling programme of governance activities is delivered in accordance with the trust, hospital, division, and service needs.

Develop and coordinate effective integrated governance practices within the business unit.

Supporting the establishment and maintenance of good working relationships, communication, collaboration, and engagement with internal stakeholders.

Assist the Head of Quality Governance in evaluating and assessing the applicability of national policy and guidelines, and provide assistance to governance teams with implementation and evaluation.

Liaise with the Head of Quality Governance to agree on and complete deliverables as needed.

Provide expert assistance on quality assurance for patient safety and clinical governance.

Provide inspection and challenge to highly complicated, technical, and sensitive clinical and non-clinical data.

Analyse complicated data from incident investigations (including patient safety investigations) and audits, and collaborate with performance and contracting colleagues to develop suitable action plans to effect good change.

Leading and guaranteeing the division’s compliance with the Duty of Candour.

Collaborate with the complaints and legal teams to triangulate information from thematic evaluations of complaints, legal claims, and incident reports.

Provide monthly, quarterly, and annual reports that triangulate the information and data from clinical governance activities.

Leading the management of patient safety events and the dissemination of lessons from them. This includes reviewing and ensuring that investigations were carried out in accordance with agreed-upon guidelines and timeframes, determining whether the investigation is fair and/or requires additional information or interviews, and providing feedback on key areas for improvement, challenge, or further action. This will include:

i. Validating the SEIPS inquiry methodology, AAR, MDT, and subsequent action plans.

ii. Conducting thematic evaluations of patient safety events to discover trends and patterns among a certain group.

iii. Facilitating the spread of broader knowledge, exchanging best practices, and promoting quality improvement.

iv. Making sure that recommendations from patient safety events are included into quality improvement initiatives and plans.

Assist the Head of Quality Governance in ensuring that the Learning from Deaths policy is implemented on the hospital site, including a framework for regular thorough evaluations.

Encourage an open and transparent culture that responds quickly to prospective or real failures.

Support the management and coordination of hospital participation and the execution of recommendations from NCEPOD and NatSSIPs 2.

Conduct appraisals, monitor personnel compliance with mandatory and compulsory training, and keep records up to date.

Act as an excellent role model and mentor, encouraging greatness through practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional knowledge combined with additional specialist and managerial knowledge gained through training and practice leads to a postgraduate qualification or comparable experience in clinical governance.

Desirable requirements.

• Healthcare professional
• PSIRF approved training.
• A qualification in risk management.
• After-action review facilitator

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• Good understanding of risk and incident management in regard to the NHS Patient Safety Strategy.
• Knowledge of the requirements for the responsibility of candour.
• Working knowledge of PSIRF
• Evidence of working in an NHS setting.
• Evidence of Using Computer Packages
• Experience working with senior managers and leaders.

Skills & Attributes

Essential criteria

• Excellent attention to detail.
• Capable of prioritising tasks, balancing competing demands, and meeting tight deadlines.
• Ability to communicate detailed, perhaps sensitive information and take proper action.
• Being ready to act now and carry out a vision for the future development of services.
• The ability to accept and cut through ambiguity and complexity while being open to creativity when managing and growing services.
• Sensitive to the needs of patients, carers, and their families, while maintaining a balanced, nonjudgmental approach.
• A strong commitment to improving service performance and a passion to deliver great service outcomes for users.
• Communicating the vision and rationale for change and modernisation, as well as engaging and facilitating others in collaborative efforts to create actual change.
• Being devoted to constructively engaging with internal and external stakeholders.
• Practical and practical, able to develop and implement answers to pressing difficulties.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
• Motivational abilities to lead and manage clinical governance at the Trust.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Capability to influence and work effectively in a tough setting. Ability to build productive relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• A leader with personal and professional integrity.
• Confident and able to instill confidence in others.
• Innovative and imaginative.
• Data analysis and interpretation capabilities
• Development and application of information systems to facilitate change.
• Strong communication skills, such as report writing and presentation.
• Able to create project planning and work schedules
• Good time and workload management abilities.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Excellent IT skills (Microsoft packages).
• High degree of personal professionalism
• Capable of working on their own initiative and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to operate in a multidisciplinary team while also managing one’s personal workload.
• Ability to communicate with professionals from a wide range of specialities.
• Capability to exhibit and instill devotion to the patient experience, public participation, and equality and diversity.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Getting vaccinated and receiving a booster remains the strongest defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support employees to acquire the COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as soon as they are eligible.

AT*: Apprenticeship Training. Where AT* is put next to the job title, it denotes that this is an apprenticeship position.

By applying for this position, you agree that if you are successful, your personal information may be moved from the Trust to another NHS organisation if your employment moves within the NHS.This is consistent with the streamlining strategy, which aims to save you time and improve efficiencies within the NHS when your job transitions.As a result, we need that you finish your stat and Man e-learning programs before joining our business.

EU/EEA citizens without EU Settlement or Pre-Settled status require a visa to work in the UK.

Applicants from job seekers requiring sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be reviewed alongside all other applicants. Before completing your application, please ensure that you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system.

If you are given a post with an NLPSS partner trust, your identification and permission to work papers will be checked remotely by TrustID, a recognised identity verification service provider. You will be prompted to take a photo of the appropriate documents as well as a “selfie” with your smartphone/tablet (if accessible) for facial recognition. TrustID will also undertake a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check that has no impact on your credit score. For further information, go to www.trustid.co.uk

The Trust collects personal information through computerised new starter forms on Trac. The information collected is securely stored and utilised to create the employee record on the ESR HR system.

If the role involves regulated activities, the Trust will obtain a DBS check (CRB). The Trust complies with the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice and the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

By applying for this role, you consent to the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust transmitting your information to their preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, your information will be sent to the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

To avoid scammers, we will only interact with you via @recruit.trac.jobs or nhs.net email addresses, and will never request payment.

People who want to work flexible hours or split a job are encouraged to apply. We are devoted to equal opportunity.

Please take note:

Due to the large amount of applications received for specific positions, we may close this vacancy before the indicated closing date. Please apply for this position as soon as possible, if you are interested and meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only candidates who can clearly demonstrate how they meet the person criterion will be considered for this position.

Interview arrangements will be sent via email, so please check your inbox periodically after the closing date.

Please be warned that due to extraordinarily high demand, all Royal Free lodging is at full capacity, and waiting lists are in place. The average waiting time is 12 months. Please do not rely on Trust accommodation when you start your role and look into alternate options for your arrival.