We are keen to recruit a talented & inspirational, individual, to the position of Paediatric Governance Lead within our Acute Paediatric & Paediatric Community Services.

The post holder will provide strong wide integrated governance leadership on safety, quality & risk management across children's services.

The post holder will be working as part of the BCYP division but with close alignment to the Governance team. This is a key role in providing assurance that our services are compliant safe and deliver high quality care to our patients.

The postholder will lead and be responsible for efficient clinical governance processes working closely with the Divisional Governance lead and with service managers and stakeholders to ensure compliance with robust governance process such as incident reporting, risk, and quality improvement to ensure the responsiveness of our services.

The post is fixed term offered permanently at full time, but applications for flexible working and job shares would be welcomed.

Main duties of the job

As the Lead for paediatric governance, the postholder, within the framework of Clinical Governance, will work collaboratively with the senior leadership team in delivering the quality, governance and safety strategy in Children's services and ensure that policies and procedures are in place to enable risks to be identified and managed appropriately. Main responsibilities include, but are not limited, to

• The post holder will implement the risk management.
• strategy which supports internal reporting and communication across the Trust and external agencies.
• They will be instrumental in monitoring any risk issues and promote and encourage safety awareness.
• They will be using learning from incidents to inform and develop clinical practices and communicate the learning across Children's services.

About us

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London's busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients' wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

Job description

Job responsibilities

A full list of duties and responsibilities will be found within the job description and requirements for the role can be found within the person specification.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

• BSc in Nursing or Relevant professional knowledge acquired through a degree, relevant to the specialty supported by specialist training, experience, or short courses to master's level equivalent
• Evidence of continuing Professional development.

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Ability to work with complex facts which require analysis, interpretation and to present findings
• The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
• Ability to manage high level projects across a range of disciplines and to influence others without having direct authority.
• Excellent presentation skills with ability to present complex information in an easily understandable format.

Experience

Essential

• Practicing Paediatric Nurse or AHP on register with significant experience at a senior level.
• Experience in managing highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information to include analysis of data and reporting on same.

Trust Values

Essential

• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

Employer details

Employer name

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

Address

North Middlesex University Hospital

Sterling Way

London

N18 1QX

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