Job summary
Take your radiography and NHScareer in a new direction and join the dynamic Radiology Clinical Governance Team at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for an enthusiastic, hardworking individual who is passionate about improving patient safety by providing our dedicated staff with support and guidance through aclear Clinical Governance operational framework and processes, to ensure a high quality service is delivered to all our patients across all our sites in oxford.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Governance Manager and other clinical governance and management colleaguesin delivering the Quality and ClinicalGovernance Agenda for the Radiology Directorate. The successful candidate will work with a wide range of directorate staff,including senior managers and clinicians, in dealing with incident investigations, clinical audits, development of evidenced based practices and policies and patient pathways. This will include all disciplines and levels of staff to achieve agreed objectives and priorities. This key role will also involveworking with the Senior Divisional and corporate Clinical Governance Teams.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - theJohn Radcliffe Hospital,Churchill HospitalandNuffield Orthopaedic Centrein Headington and theHorton General Hospitalin Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes useValue Based Interviewingto identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visitwww.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job description
Job responsibilities
A full list of duties can be found on the job description.
The post-holder will have a sound understanding of all areas of clinical governance including clinical risk management, clinical audit and clinical outcomes, incidents and morbidity / mortality meetings
Person Specification
Professional qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registered Radiographer with knowledge of the NHS.
Clinical Governance experience
Desirable
Understanding of PSIRF
Desirable
QSI accreditation knowledge
Desirable
- QSI Accreditation knowledge
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.
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 .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
John Radcliffe
Headley Way
Oxford
OX39DU