Critical Care Governance Lead - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

NHS AfC:
Band 7

Main area

Critical Care

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Grade

NHS AfC: Band 7

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Contract

Permanent

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Hours

Part time 25 hours per week

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Job ref

Site

Queens Medical Centre

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Town

Nottingham

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Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
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Salary period

Yearly

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Closing

24/05/2023 23:59Job overview

The Governance Lead Nurse will work alongside and support the Critical Care Matron in providing a high quality service to all key stakeholders and users across the organisation.

Deputising at meetings where appropriate and working alongside other governance leads within the acute pathway.

To provide specialist advice to the Critical Care Department regarding legislation, guidance and the regulatory framework relevant to the management of clinical risk and to improving clinical standards and patient safety.

Main duties of the job

To lead on the identification of risks associated within the speciality; develop and implement action plans, attend local and speciality and pathway meetings, reporting progress on an ongoing basis.

To provide guidance and support in the implementation of clinical standards (quality) initiatives in line with the Trust's clinical risk management and Health and safety framework.

To lead on the investigation and analysis of incidents associated or related to the speciality or its work streams, developing and implementing actions plans, providing feedback, quarterly reviews/reports as appropriate.

To support the implementation of clinical audit and other clinical effectiveness processes such tenderable audits as a mechanism for improving quality, risk and safety.

To lead the analysis and reporting of the findings of the above mentioned audits, collating results, formulating action plans and leading the implementation and ongoing review of them.

To support delivery of an integrated Clinical Effectiveness and Audit Plan and ensure this is consistent with the Trust's Clinical Effectiveness and Audit Policy.

For other duties please refer to the job description.

Working for our organisation

Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives and we usher in new life.

We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.

With more than 18,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond.

We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes.

We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children's Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal disease, mental health and imaging.

As a teaching hospital, we are instrumental in the education and training of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals.

We are proud of our strong relationships with universities across the East Midlands, including the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University.

This is an exciting time to join NUH and help support our future ambitions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

PATIENT CARE AND CLINICAL EXPERTISE
Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice and support across the whole spectrum of the theatre services related to the quality and safety agenda.
Be an expert clinical practitioner, prioritising and planning workload to include the ability to work in clinical practice. Support the specialty in providing a clinical response in line with its key objectives.
To work in a clinical capacity as appropriate to maintain competence and to support the Critical Care team delivery of key services.
To collaborate and shadow the other clinical teams on a regular basis, to ensure a good understanding of the whole speciality.
PATIENT AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT AND EXPERIENCE
Actively seek ways to involve and promote patient and public involvement in service design and delivery. Ensure that feedback and comments are included in service and department reviews and that these are used to improve services for Critical Care.
Contribute to the Divisional and Service strategies for raising the profile of patient and public involvement.
PROMOTE AND ESTABLISH EFFECTIVE TEAM WORKING AND COMMUNICATION
Maintain the principles of governance by encouraging achievement of standards of excellence, which are underpinned by open communication and team working across all disciplines and to support the Pathway and Division and any future developments to the Trust Gov