Quality Assurance Facilitator - Fulwood, United Kingdom - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Fulwood, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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An amazing opportunity has arisen in the Quality Assurance Team.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, self-motivated and committed Quality Assurance Lead to support the established Quality Assurance Team and Matron.

This will involve you being part of the effective delivery of the Quality Assurance Framework and continuous improvement patient safety work streams,

Demonstrable experience of data analysis, report writing and good presentation skills. The post holder must have excellent high level communication skills and be able to communicate and negotiate effectively with people at all levels within the organisation

Supporting and leading on STAR Accreditation visits to clinical areas.

Completing reports and giving high level feedback within timescales

Promote high standards in patient safety and care quality standards

Contribute to high quality patient safety by utilising improvement methodology to support clinical teams in improving the quality of care given to patients.

Disseminate knowledge and skills to all staff across the Trust to enable ward and departments to take forward service improvement

We have 9000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients.

Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done.

You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things.

Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Undertake STAR Accreditation visits
Work collaboratively and support staff across the Trust to achieve the outcomes of the STAR Quality Assurance Framework
Monitor departmental STAR action plans and provide advice and guidance on SMART actions and support in achieving these
Facilitate and support continuous improvement across the Trust
Identify areas of improvement
Carries out clinical and nonclinical audits of current practice at

ward/department level to identify problems and incorporate
informal spot checks to identify areas requiring additional
educational input, ensuring action plans and concise reports
are fed back to ward managers and other department

Participate in the planning, data collection and production of

reports for the Quality Assurance Matron

Ensure that data collection systems are completed within the

required timeframes

Assist with the interpretation, analysis and dissemination of

audit information/reports relating to patient safety across the

Trust and externally (where appropriate) to enable facilitation

of decision making in conjunction with clinical colleagues to
promote improvements in patient care standards

Support the production, distribution and presentation of

information regarding the STAR quality assurance framework
and patient safety to members of the trust board and senior
managers as directed by the Quality Assurance Matron