We are recruiting for a Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Facilitator who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are seeking either a graduate or person of graduate calibre to be a Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Facilitator.

The Clinical Audit & Effectiveness (CAE) Team is a small, dynamic team, that supports 33 specialties across all 4 sites of the Trust. We are hardworking, detailed oriented and a friendly team that supports Clinicians, Managers, Nurses, Therapists, and trainees in all aspects relating to Clinical Audit, Effectiveness and Quality Improvement.

Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Facilitators support the Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Manager (CAEM) and the Deputy Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Manager (DCAEM), to deliver the Trust's robust Clinical Audit & Effectiveness (CAE) Programme.

Our Values are Include, Respect, and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Facilitator will act as the main contact point between the CAE Team and the designated clinical specialties. Working with clinical specialties to support/assist with clinical audit, quality improvement and NICE guidance gap analysis action plans.

The successful candidate will timely collect, update, extract data/information from MS Office programmes (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) to produce reports for dissemination, driving service improvement through the monitoring and provision of progress updates to the Divisions and the Trust.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,500 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

• Degree or equivalent qualification and/or significant relevant experience in a clinical governance/audit or leading administration role

Desirable

• Attendance on a clinical audit/quality improvement and or Effectiveness course

Previous Experience

Essential

• Computer data entry
• Working with departmental systems
• Use of the Internet
• Working to deadlines
• Report writing
• Production of high-quality work
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Delivering training

Desirable

• NHS experience
• Clinical audit and or effectiveness experience
• Project work
• Preparing and delivering presentations

Skills

Essential

• MS Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word to intermediate level
• Interpersonal skills
• Organisational skills
• Ability to work unsupervised on own initiative
• Organising and prioritising own workload
• Ability to produce accurate and timely work
• Liaising with staff at all levels
• Problem solving
• Conflict resolution
• Good communication skills

Desirable

• Understanding of clinical audit and clinical effectiveness principles
• Critical appraisal
• Data analysis
• QI methodology

Knowledge

Essential

• Preparing and delivering presentations
• Clinical Audit, Clinical Effectiveness, Quality Improvement and Research methodologies and processes
• Data analysis and intelligence
• Descriptive statistics
• Medical terminology
• Systems and process development
• NICE Guidance
• HQIP Audit programme

Desirable

• Knowledge of other aspects of 'Clinical Governance' e.g. Risk Management
• Intermediate level statistics
• Current developments/priorities for the NHS

Other

Essential

• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Flexible approach to tasks
• Innovative
• Discretion
• Confidentiality

Desirable

• Ability to travel between sites when required

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

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361-6334760