Clinical Governance Lead for Anaesthetics in Gloucester

Anaesthetics, Pre-operative Assessment and Pain Services underpin the Trust's elective, emergency and peri-operative pathways, playing a central role in patient safety, theatre productivity, peri-operative optimisation and recovery.

The Clinical Governance role provides oversight of anaesthetic policies and guidelines, responds to incidents and complaints and facilitates shared learning throughout the department.

Job Purpose: The Clinical Governance Lead provides clinical leadership for governance, quality and patient safety within Anaesthetics, supporting the investigation of incidents, management of complaints, oversight of policies and guidelines, and the promotion of continuous learning and improvement.

The post holder will:

• Investigate reported incidents related to anaesthetics
• Co-ordinate response to complaints in conjunction with senior clinical anaesthetic leadership and management team
• Co-ordinate review and renewal of anaesthetic policies and guidelines
• Chair monthly anaesthetic governance meeting (1 hour)
• Facilitate sharing of guidelines and learning from incidents
• Provide governance updates and assurance reports to specialty and divisional governance forums as required

Main Duties of the Job:

Key Responsibilities:

• Clinical Governance Leadership: Leadership and decision making on routine clinical governance matters; contribute to departmental decision making as part of the senior clinical leadership group.
• Quality, Safety and Improvement: Provide senior clinical leadership for governance and patient safety; support audit, learning from incidents, morbidity review and service evaluation; use clinical insight and data to identify opportunities for service improvement; support review and management of specialty risks and contribute to risk register discussions where appropriate.
• Information Governance and Shared Learning: Ensure ready access to up-to-date local policies and guidelines for permanent staff and trainees; deliver regular mortality and morbidity review in anaesthetics; ensure regular sharing of learning (from incidents, changes in practice, and local excellence); maintain oversight of outstanding governance actions and support timely completion; support compliance with Trust governance requirements and reporting processes.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: GMC registration
• Knowledge and Experience: Strong understanding of clinical governance, quality improvement and patient safety; evidence of effective communication and collaborative working; demonstrable clinical leadership experience within anaesthetic or peri-operative services; experience in a clinical leadership role; involvement in Trust wide or system level clinical groups.

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.