Clinical Audit Co-ordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Clinical Audit and Effectiveness team at St Georges, Epsom and St Helier Trust. We are looking to recruit a full time Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Co-ordinator post for 37.5 hours per week. We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive individual who can contribute to improving patient care by supporting clinical teams across the Trust to deliver an effective Clinical audit and Effectiveness programme. This role involves supporting the planning, delivery, analysis & presentation of audits with progression of the resulting action plans. Co-ordinators currently support specified Divisions. The successful candidates will have analytical, presentation and organisational abilities as well as proven IT skills. The post requires candidates who are enthusiastic, have a positive approach, excellent communication skills and an ability to work under pressures. A clinical background is not required, however an understanding of clinical terminology will be an advantage.

Main duties of the job:

• Supporting development and implementation of the clinical audit programme
• Support the carrying out of clinical audits including organisation-wide and high profile clinical audits
• Collecting and analysing data, helping to interpret findings, participating in presentation of findings and facilitation of actions needed and helping to monitor implementation of actions to achieve improvements with designated clinical leads as appropriate
• Helping to explain the process for screening clinical audit proposals
• Contribute to developing induction and training programmes, including teaching and presentation materials, to meet the needs of staff working in the Trust, in relation to clinical audit and quality improvement processes
• Help to teach staff how to select and carry out a clinical audit to confirm good practice or achieve improvement in the quality or safety of patient care
• Contributes to carrying out work needed to ensure the Trusts meet external requirements related to clinical audit and helps to prepare relevant and informative reports on clinical audit performance for the Trust.
• Supports the maintenance of the database register of clinical audits carried out in the Trusts, including evidence of improvements achieved through the clinical audits.

Working for our organisation:

The Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Team are based across gesh with office space at St Georges, Epsom Gateway and St Helier. At Gateway we can link with other members of the wider quality / governance areas such as patient safety / legal / complaints. The Clinical audit team consists of a manager, 3 senior co-ordinators, 3 co-ordinators, and a trauma audit co-ordinator. Co-ordinators are largely attached to specific divisions so linking with the areas is an integral part of the role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Provides support for clinical services, specialities and professional groups in the organisation to develop and implement an effective and robust clinical audit programme with clinical audits in the programme producing improvements in the quality or safety of patient care.
• Supports implementation of a strategy and policies related to clinical audit for the Group as needed and contributes to the effective integration of clinical audit with other governance and accountability programmes and functions.
• Contributes to carrying out work as needed to ensure that the Group meets external requirements related to clinical audit and helps to prepare relevant and informative reports on clinical audit performance for the Group.
• Supports the conduct of trust wide high profile clinical audits in the organisation.
• Contributes to providing effective and appropriate teaching of clinical audit for all clinical staff working in the Group.

Main Responsibilities and Duties:

• Supports the development and implementation of clinical audit programmes for the Group and clinical directorates, clinical services and professions.
• Helps groups or individuals select clinical audits to be carried out in the Trust in accordance with the Group's strategic plan for audit which sets out the criteria for the prioritisation of audit.
• Supports the carrying out of clinical audits including organisation-wide and high profile clinical audits to ensure that clinical audits are carried out effectively, and that appropriate action is taken to achieve the audit.
• Collects and analyses data, helps to interpret findings, participates in the presentation of findings and facilitation of actions needed, and helps to monitor implementation of actions to achieve improvements for organisation-wide or high profile clinical audits, with designated clinical leads as appropriate.
• Helps to explain the process for screening clinical audit proposals, and findings of repeat measurement to clinical staff as appropriate and contributes to ensuring that any ethical issues relating to clinical audit are handled appropriately in the Trust.
• Contributes to disseminating and supports implementation of work programmes related to clinical audit.
• Contributes to disseminating information about the Trust’s clinical audit policies and contributes to implementation of work programmes related to clinical audit.
• Contributes to carrying out training needs analyses related to clinical audit and quality improvement processes.
• Contributes to developing induction and training programmes, including teaching and presentation materials, to meet the needs of staff working in the Trust in relation to clinical audit and quality improvement processes.
• Helps to teach staff working in the Trust how to select and carry out a clinical audit to confirm current good practice or achieve improvement in the quality or safety of patient care.
• Helps to carry out evaluation of training on clinical audit provided in the Group and contributes to appraisal of and action on evaluation findings.
• Contributes to carrying out work needed to ensure that the organisation meets external requirements related to clinical audit and helps to prepare relevant and informative reports on clinical audit performance for the Group.
• Supports the maintenance of the database register of clinical audits carried out in the Group, including evidence of improvements achieved through the clinical audits.
• Helps to write relevant and informative reports on clinical audit performance in the Group for submission to relevant committees, groups or managers in the organisation.
• Contributes to disseminating information about the organisation’s performance on clinical audit within the organisation.
• Contributes to integrating clinical audit effectively with other components of the organisation’s governance and assurance structures and to maintaining effective partnerships and networks relating to clinical audit in the organisation.
• Participates in raising the profile of clinical audit throughout the Trust.
• Provides information on clinical audit and quality improvement methods.
• Provides information to clinical teams and individual members of staff on the design and conduct of clinical audits, including the quality improvement process.
• Contributes to supporting the smooth operation of the clinical audit service.
• Contributes as a team member to supporting other clinical audit staff employed in the Group to deliver the Group's clinical audit strategy and the Trusts’ clinical audit programme.
• Maintains confidentiality and contributes to ensuring that data protection and information governance requirements related to clinical audit are implemented throughout the organisation.
• Explains the Group's policies on confidentiality, the protection and use of personal information, the use and disclosure of information, the use of computer equipment and IT generated information in relation to clinical audit information to clinical staff working in the Group as needed.
• Checks that data collected for clinical audit purposes, particularly for organisation-wide clinical audits, are accurate and relevant for the objective(s), that is, are not excessive or inappropriate.

Person specification:

• Degree level or equivalent experience relevant to the post
• Train the trainer qualification or willingness to acquire
• Quality improvement practitioner or willingness to acquire
• Experience in project management
• Analysing, interpreting and presenting data clearly
• Experience of working within the NHS
• Experience of Clinical Audit
• Qualification in project management

Skills:

• Proficient in MS Office including Excel / PowerPoint
• Excellent organisational skills
• Team working skills / sharing knowledge with colleagues
• Competence in designing forms to collect data
• Ability to promote & influence action plans for improvements in patient care

Personal attributes:

• Flexibility
• Professionalism
• Evidence of continuous professional development and improvement

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.

If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features.

As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.