Senior Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Facilitator
Job overview
Senior Clinical Audit Facilitator - Band 5 - Permanent - 30 hours
We are looking to recruit a Senior Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Facilitator to join the Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Team at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. Due to service need, we would ideally like someone who can commence in post during February/March 2025, although all applications will be considered.
This role is a great opportunity for someone to progress to the next level, building on their existing clinical audit facilitation skills and expanding their knowledge. The post holder will support clinical audit & effectiveness activity across both acute and community services, managing a wide portfolio of projects and ensuring that improvement action plans are in place to improve patient care.
The successful candidate will need excellent organisational skills to manage the workload effectively and cope with conflicting demands and deadlines. Accuracy and attention to detail are also essential to ensure that administration systems are up to date and maintained to a high standard.
If you think this role is for you, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Work with colleagues in the Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Team and staff at all levels across the organisation to deliver an effective Clinical Audit Programme.
Support Trust compliance with mandatory requirements by taking responsibility for facilitation of a wide range of projects.
Monitor the submission of data to mandatory national audits, ensuring data is complete/accurate, deadlines are met and concerns are escalated.
Engage with clinicians to ensure that audits are carried out in accordance with best practice and result in improvements in patient care.
Contribute to the assurance and monitoring of clinical audit activity, ensuring project monitoring systems are up to date and reflect the current status of audit activity within allocated portfolio.
Work with teams across the organisation to review audit results and identify areas for improvement. Support action and learning from clinical audit results, working with Divisional Teams to develop, implement and monitor SMART (Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Relevant, Timely) action plans.
Support the review of practice against NICE guidelines to provide assurance of Trust compliance.
Produce reports and presentations in a timely manner and present information at Divisional Meetings.
Deliver clinical audit training across the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
- Safety
- Care
- Respect
- Communication
- Learning
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focusses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached and can be downloaded.
The person specification detailed below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria- Educated to ‘A’ level standard or equivalent knowledge gained through experience working in clinical audit
- Formal clinical audit or QI training (E.g. AquA, Clinical Audit Support Centre (CASC))
Experience
Essential criteria- Proven experience of facilitating a range of clinical audit projects
- Experience of presenting and articulating information to meetings, forums or committees
- Experience of data management/analysis of complex data sets and presentation of information
- Demonstrable involvement in change or quality improvement activity
- Experience working in the NHS and using hospital information systems
- Previous experience of staff supervision
- Experience of using audit project monitoring systems (E.g. AMaT)
- Experience of providing clinical audit training
Skills, Knowledge & Attributes
Essential criteria- Understanding of the clinical audit cycle
- Extensive knowledge/experience of a range of clinical audits and NHS initiatives
- A good understanding of NICE Guidelines and other NHS standards
- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft software packages (Word, Excel, Access, Power point, Outlook)
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy with good numeracy
- Ability to identify and solve problems
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop productive working relationships with a wide range of individuals throughout the Trust
- Excellent written communication skills with experience of writing reports & presentations
- Ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to plan and prioritise your own workload and that of others
- Ability to work under pressure and effectively manage conflicting deadlines
- Ability to analyse own work areas and contribute to service improvement
- Knowledge of medical terminology
New colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome here at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.
For our agenda for change staff, we offer a competitive benefits package with regular pay awards, annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days after 10 years and access to a competitive Pension Scheme to which both you and the Trust contribute.These terms and conditions are not applicable for Non-Executive positions.
Alongside this there are extensive training development opportunities with paid mandatory training, a protected training budget for staff and support for flexible working. We have an on-site Occupational Health Service to support you at work and have fast track access to physio, counselling and complimentary therapies.
At Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, we welcome applications from all candidates.
At the Trust we always adhere to the UK Visas and Immigration rules pertaining to right to work; candidates who do not hold UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) citizenship are required to obtain a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) to be eligible to apply for either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa which allows them to work in the UK, unless they have eligibility to work in the UK via another route.
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Further details regarding the post can be obtained by contacting a Recruiting Manager as per contact details below.
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