Job summary
A vacancy has arisen in the Quality and Audit team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. This will be a 12 month fixed-term/secondment role with a view to permanency.
The main purpose of this newly developed role is to support the Head of Quality and Clinical Effectiveness to drive key quality, clinical effectiveness and safety initiatives within the Trust, with a focus on the nursing care agenda.
We are looking for a registered nurse who can support their clinical colleagues to make changes that positively impact patient care and outcomes.
Management of data is a key element of the role, and we are looking for an individual who has strong attention to detail and is able to support data quality.
This is a cross-site role and will involve being based at either Frimley Park Hospital or Wexham Park Hospital, with travel between the two sites required occasionally.
We are a close knit team who pride ourselves on how we support each other. We embody the Trust values of committed to excellence, working together and facing the future. We support flexible working where possible and promote a strong work / life balance, despite the demanding nature of the roles we fulfil.
If you would like the chance to develop and feel you have the right skills, please do apply.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an individual to work under the direction of the Head of Quality and Clinical Effectiveness to facilitate the Trust's Fundamental and Better Care (FAB) programme.
The postholder will organise and execute quality walkabouts with a focus on nursing quality and safety topics, co-ordinating feedback and following up where required. They will have a frequent presence within clinical areas to increase awareness of the FAB programme and work collaboratively with the Trust's FAB fellows to ensure consistent standards of care are delivered across the organisation.
They will support nursing teams to review their department's FAB audit results and:
- identify areas of improvement in relation to nursing care and celebrate excellent practice.
- identify which areas may need additional support to continuously improve.
- provide assurance in relation to the standard of nursing care across Frimley Health.
About us
There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Facilitate the Fundamental and Better Care Programme, including:
- analysing audit results and preparing summaries of the finding in reports to influence clinical practice and communicate main messages to key stakeholders.
- identifying areas of good practice and helping clinical teams to embed best practice across the Trust.
- early escalation of concerning performance and supporting clinical areas to address those concerns with improvement plans.
- Working collaboratively with ward staff and leaders to ensure commitment to the FAB programme.
- Co-ordinate the Quality Walkabout programme, including:
- facilitating the timetable.
- capturing and monitoring agreed actions.
- Supporting the Head of Quality and Clinical Effectiveness to drive forward areas identified as requiring improvement.
- Actively work to increase the scope and quality of audits within nursing to provide assurance and evidence of changes in practice following patient safety, experience or quality concerns.
- Undertake and facilitate Trust-wide internal nursing clinical audits.
- Ensure data collection is accurate, timely and analysis can be used to inform continuous quality improvement. Use clinical knowledge to help with data validation.
- Identify and escalate key clinical quality and safety issues, either verbally or in a written report.
- Contribute to education requirements relating to the areas of quality, audit and clinical effectiveness, e.g. education roadshows, awareness events, teaching sessions, dissemination of new policies, protocols and guidelines.
- To work effectively within the corporate nursing team and in partnership with the patient safety, patient experience and safeguarding teams.
- Liaise with all disciplines and levels of clinical staff and patients as required (external and Trust) in relation to all matters quality including contentious and sometimes difficult matters.
- Provide clinical support as required by the Trust in times of extreme demand.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current NMC/ HCPC Registration
- Educated to at least Foundation degree level in line with above registration requirements
Desirable
- Able to use software to design method of data collection, collate, manipulate, present data
- Continuous quality improvement training e.g., yellow belt qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working clinically at band 5 level or above
- Experience/involvement in performance/change management.
- Experience of using Patient Information IT systems e.g., Epic.
- Confidence in dealing with staff at all levels including clinicians.
- IT knowledge/use: Word, Excel including pivot tables, charts and graphs, PowerPoint.
Desirable
- Experience of using clinical audit cycle to provide assurance/identify gaps in standards and to support improvement work to enhance patient outcomes and standard setting.
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Have excellent verbal and written communication, negotiation and facilitation skills to all levels and with all disciplines within the Trust and externally.
- Influencing skills to support managing change and be able to handle challenging conversations.
- Presentation skills - preparation and delivery.
- Ability to produce and present reports and correspondence of a high standard
- Excellent time management and ability to work to tight deadlines and change within the working environment
- Capacity for prolonged intense concentration
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult/stressful situations effectively.
- Self-motivated with the ability to motivate others.
- Able to work effectively as part of a team.
- Able to work autonomously and under pressure to meet strict deadlines.
Desirable
- Core knowledge of national guidelines and key indicators.
- Participation in national or Trust wide audits.
- Accurate and quick keyboard skills.
Special requirements
Essential
- Ability to respond to and meet urgent and changing deadlines and requests for reports and information.
- Ability to work flexible hours.
- Able to travel efficiently and in a timely way across hospital sites.
- Willingness to work across all FHFT sites.
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
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Cross-site role and postholder can choose where main base will be (Wexham Park or Frimley Park)
Slough or Frimley
GU16 7UJ