Quality and Audit Nurse/Practitioner - NHS

Job overview

A fantastic opportunity for development has arisen for the right candidate within our corporate Quality and Audit team. The role would suit a nurse, midwife or AHP who is interested in becoming involved in the Trust's Quality and Safety agendas and who wishes to develop their portfolio to the wider Trust objectives and ultimately support the delivery of its strategy.

The successful candidate will be forward thinking, motivated and focussed on improving the quality of care to all our patients. They will be willing to learn about all areas of clinical care as the role covers all professions, specialties and geographical locations within our FHFT footprint.

The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills and may even have some experience in negotiating and challenging situations with clinicians.

Experience of audit and quality improvement is useful for this role, though much training and support will be provided, for the candidate with the right interpersonal skills and willingness to learn.

• Supporting and leading trust-wide projects
• Responsible for own reporting schedule
• Extensive quality and audit work, including analysis and creating of presentations
• Communicating effectively with clinicians and staff at all levels, but internally and externally to FHFT
• Deputising for manager

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Current NMC/ HCPC Registration, appropriate for band 5 and above
• Educated to degree level, or A level with at least three years’ experience in a similar role
• Quality Improvement methodology/knowledge training

• Leadership/project management qualification

Experience

• Proven leadership ability with a focus on transformational and compassionate leadership
• Experience of using clinical audit cycle to provide assurance/identify gaps in standards and to support improvement work to enhance patient outcomes and standard setting
• Experience / involvement in performance/change management
• Experience of using Patient Information IT systems e.g., PAS, ICE, EPIC

• Evidence of leading performance/change management in a clinical setting

Skills & Knowledge

• IT skills including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Have excellent verbal and written communication, negotiation and facilitation skills to all levels and with all disciplines within the Trust and externally
• Influencing skills to support managing change and be able to handle challenging conversations
• Presentation skills - preparation and delivery
• Ability to produce and present reports and correspondence of a high standard
• Able to use software to design method of data collection, collate, manipulate, present data
• Excellent time management and ability to work to tight deadlines and change within the working environment

• Core knowledge of national guidelines and key indicators
• Participation in national or Trust wide audits

Special Requirements

• Full UK Driving Licence with access to a car
• Willingness to work across all FHFT sites
• Ability to work flexible hours

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.