An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Cardiothoracic Audit Department due to a recent vacancy and also the expansion of the targeted lung health check initiative.

We are now looking to recruit an Audit Nurse/AHP to work as part of our team.

The purpose of the role is to support the Cardiothoracic Audit Lead nurses and team to develop, implement and monitor an agreed programme of clinical audit and quality improvement with a focus on national cardiac audit requirements.

This role will be based at the James Cook University Hospital and will fulfil all tasks and work as part of a team to meet the needs of the service.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for individual who is committed to make a difference to patient care.

The successful candidate will have a professional qualification in health care e.g. RN or AHP and currently registered with a professional body.

• Collect and validate data for any of the national clinical audits and exported registries that apply to the Cardiothoracic and Cardiology Services (Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia)
• Work collaboratively with all members of MDT to ensure that data is exported to the essential NICOR databases in order to achieve national data quality and completeness standards within the submission deadlines set by NICOR and NHS England
• Support the Audit Lead Nurse in the delivery of the national audit agenda within the Cardiothoracic Services Directorate
• Support the Cardiothoracic audit team to ensure excellence in audit support for the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Care Services

This post may close at sufficient applicants.

About us

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bite-size programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Good Microsoft Office skills
• Previous experience of participating in a service improvement or clinical audit project
• Good Cardiothoracic and/or Cardiology clinical knowledge

Desirable

• Basic data analysis experience
• Experience with Cardiothoracic/Cardiology national audit data
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Microsoft Excel and Access

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Professional qualification in health care e.g. RN or AHP
• Currently Registered with a health care professional body

Desirable

• Attendance at the leadership and development and improvement programme (4.5 days)
• Service improvement course or equivalent
• Excel training

Experience

Essential

• Cardiothoracic and/or Cardiology experience

Desirable

• Experience of working in a clinical audit team
• Previous NHS experience

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to plan own work to enable required deadlines to be met
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Professional and diplomatic attitude to work
• Maintains confidentiality at all times
• Positive and forward-thinking attitude
• Attention to detail
• An understanding of our Trust values

Desirable

• Previous experience of presenting

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW

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