Clinical Governance Lead for Infection, Prevention and Control
- Employer
- Finegreen
- Location
- South East England
- Salary
- Band 8a/b
- Closing date
- 22 Dec 2020
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- Sector
- Acute Trust
- Job Type
- Contract
- Category
- Governance & Risk Management, Medical & Clinical
Job Details
This is a 3-month interim post working in the South East Coast area on a band 8a/b.
Lead the Clinical Governance Team in the delivery of the long-term directorate clinical governance strategy, ensuring that this is aligned to the corporate agenda.
Main Responsibilities:
- Ensure that patient safety incidents and quality failures are reported and investigated, and action plans implemented;
- Lead for the development of quality improvement projects that is centred on poor compliance against clinical standards, trends, high risks areas, complaints and high cost areas;
- Provide leadership, motivation and supervision within the governance team and across the directorate ensuring that governance is fully understood and incorporated into daily practice;
- Lead the Directorate preparedness for its regulatory and statutory duties such as CQC inspections;
- Coordinate and ensure that the service delivers plans for compliance a with all local and national service standards, develop / update relevant policies and is well prepared for any internal or external inspections and/or accreditations;
- Monitor generic clinical and non-clinical risk assessments, ensuring that action plans are developed by managers and fed into local risk registers, and that there is a systematic approach to monitoring progress on action plans.
- Understanding of the wider NHS agenda Knowledge of incident reporting systems e.g. DATIX;
- Extensive knowledge and experience in CQC inspection;
- Understanding of Infection, Prevention and Control policies and procedures and how this relates to overall governance;
- Able to analyse and interpret highly complex quantitative data, using statistical process control as appropriate;
- Able to maintain personal effectiveness and work well under pressure to tight deadlines;
- Ability to work with all staff groups equally successfully, but with the skills to persuade senior staff of importance of the patient safety programme.
Company
Put simply, we help our clients to recruit the best possible people to lead, manage and direct their organisations. Since launching in 2005 we have become an award winning, market-leading consultancy focusing on both public and private sector Healthcare recruitment.
Leadership skills have rarely been at such a premium - as organisations across both public and private sectors attempt to improve services and standards at a time of widespread change and unprecedented financial constraints.
Like other leading executive recruiters, Finegreen has developed a pool of talent built up over many years, along with established networks, to ensure that right-match candidates get to hear about relevant positions. Where Finegreen differs from many others, is in its willingness to spend quality time with clients - to gain an in-depth knowledge of roles being filled and their importance to an organisation.
Over the last 17 years in the Healthcare market, Finegreen has developed into a Virgin Fast Track top 100 company - and was voted Recruiter of the Year at the Health Investor Awards, Top small to medium sized business at the Best Business Awards, and featured in Recruiter’s Top 10 Public Sector Recruitment providers.
- Website
- http://www.finegreen.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0345 130 4006
- Location
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Finegreen
Manchester
Lancashire
M12 6JH
United Kingdom
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