Band 5 Governance Facilitation Officer

The closing date is 30th Mar 2023

Job summary

Working as part of a busy team you will support the promotion and facilitation of effective clinical governance, safety, and risk management across the Division. This will include the implementation and monitoring of incident and risk management processes along with providing support with the co-ordination, implementation and delivery. The post holder will provide advice and guidance relating to any queries, and will be acting as the first point of contact within the team for the specialties within one of the seven Divisions.

The post holder will be responsible for reviewing & escalating incidents in line with local and national guidance, ensuring Duty of Candour compliance is adhered to, supporting the risk management principles and ensuring lessons learned are embedded. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring accurate and efficient systems are in place to track and monitor incidents, risks, duty of candour and action plans.

Who we're looking for:

*An ability to work flexibly and responsively to the needs of the service and the wider Trust.

*Experience and an understanding of working within a clinical governance team or undertaking those tasks is desirable, however this is not essential as development opportunities and training will be provided.

*Computer literate, experience in using excel and be able to use pivot tables, manage heavy data and extracting information for reporting

Main duties, tasks & skills required

To assist the Governance Facilitation Lead (GFL) to implement a range of Trust-wide clinical governance programmes to support the strategic development of the Trust's clinical governance, risk management, safety and compliance agenda, in line with the changing national agenda.

To prepare and personally present reports and papers for key personnel and committees, including monthly risk profiles, quarterly Quality Governance Reports, Speciality meetings and Quality and Safety committees. This requires the interpretation of complex information to develop reports for operational, medical and nursing professionals.

To follow up action plans with Specialties and collate evidence under the direction of the GFL. This will require an understanding of context through the reading of complex reports that contain sensitive information about clinical incidents.

To deliver comprehensive clinical governance training programmes across the Trust which includes providing specialist training for clinical and non-clinical staff.

To participate in the preparation for any external regulatory visit by CQC.

To meet regularly with the designated risk lead within each Specialty to ensure risks are reviewed and updated according to the Risk Management Policy.

To assist the GFL with any other activities, as required, to enhance the development of continuous quality improvement activities, clinical incident reporting, risk management, or any other relevant Safety and Governance activities.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

*Please Note*: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree or equivalent qualification and/or significant relevant experience 

Experience

Essential

Evidence of a methodical approach and effective organisational skills.

MS Office to intermediate/advanced level.

Working with departmental systems. Use of the internet.

Ability to work to tight deadlines.

Production of high quality work in written reports.

Applied knowledge of risk management and clinical audit

Knowledge and application of relevant audit and evaluation methodologies and statistical procedures, qualitative and quantitative

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

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.

For help with your application, contact: 

Elaine Tandy 

elaine.tandy@uhb.nhs.uk 

 

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change 

Band

Band 5 

Salary

£27055.00  to £32934.00 Yearly 

Contract

Permanent 

Working pattern

Full-Time, Flexible Working 

Reference number

304-1071764YS 

Job locations

Trustwide 
Mindelsohn Way 
Birmingham 
West Midlands 
B15 2TH 

Attachments

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