Clinical Risk and Governance Administrator - London, United Kingdom - King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you passionate about Patient Safety and ensuring that our services can demonstrate the outstanding care we deliver?

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Surgery, Theatres, Anaesthetics and Endoscopy Care Group for a Clinical Risk and Governance Administrator.

In this role, you will support the Care Group triumvirate with the risk and incident governance portfolio and report directly to the Senior Head of Nursing for Surgery, Theatres, Anaesthetics and Endoscopy.

The post-holder is the clinical risk and governance administrator for the Surgery, Theatres, Anaesthetics and Endoscopy (STAE) Care Group, providing essential support for the effective management of the Trust's and Care Group's risk and governance agenda.

To have primary day-to-day responsibility and act as a central point of contact for all incidents and risks for the Care Group, co-ordinating risk investigations and providing timely and high quality responses.

The post holder will ensure that all cases are managed in a sensitive and timely manner through close working with clinical and non-clinical staff across the Trust.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London.

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites.

The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.

By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan.

In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.

Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible

Risk and Governance

To provide essential administrative support for the risk and governance process in relation to arranging meetings, agenda's, recording minutes and action plan creation and development.
Review all STAE adverse incidents submitted via the incident reporting system ensuring either they are graded according to severity and then closed or preliminary investigations initiated.
Maintaining an accurate filing, archiving system of all investigation paperwork, and supporting information.
Liaising with relevant clinicians and managers for progress against action plans following incident panel meetings, updating and monitoring and reporting systems.
Facilitate the weekly incident review meeting (IRM), ensuring the availability of clinical notes and any other relevant documentation prior to the meeting.
Ensure a detailed action tracker of the cases presented at IRM is kept and any resulting followup actions are undertaken and appropriately recorded.
Coordinate adverse incident investigation upon notification by the service lead. Meet with staff involved or request statements as appropriate to ensure a thorough investigation process is completed and records are maintained within the incident reporting system.
For adverse incidents with moderate harm or above in addition to the above arrange a rapid response meeting with all key staff members involved to agree a lead investigator and information required for the investigation.
Ensure all required clinical information is available to the designated lead investigator.
Assist with providing information as requested to clinical teams.
Assist when requested with a root cause analysis ensuring all templates are available to enable a robust investigation to be completed which informs appropriate recommendations and actions.
Support managers and clinical staff in investigations and monitor progress against action plans.
Support the Care Group triumvirate and the Clinical Governance Leads in ensuring governance across the care group is robust, effective and appropriately monitored.
To liaise with the audit leads regarding work streams and action plans.
Format, edit, proof reading and ensure all guidance is reflective of the house style before publication to the Clinical Guidelines System.
Ensure that new initiatives and governance performance trends are communicated fully throughout the division.
To support the team with the management of projects, taking appropriate action and gathering informati