Clinical Audit Facilitator

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is...the Northumbria Way!

Our trust is innovative and progressive, with an £800 million turnover, employing over 10,000 staff to serve a population of 500,000 with an extensive range of acute and community health care. We own and operate GP practices with a collective list size of over 50,000 patients through Northumbria Primary Care and run a number of commercial businesses including Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management, adding income to our bottom line which is reinvested in innovation and patient care.

We're twice rated 'outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission inspection in 2016 and 2019 and rated 'joint best place to work' by our staff. Investing heavily in staff experience and staff satisfaction - our staff rated us best acute and community trust in equality, diversity and inclusion, health and wellbeing, morale, quality of care, safety culture, staff engagement and for team working.

Managing three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed - covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria will be interviewed if they indicate they wish to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Job overview

This is an exciting part time opportunity to join a quality and assurance team with a particular focus on clinical audit. We are looking for an organised and resourceful individual with a 'can-do' attitude who likes working with people.

Main duties of the job

The role involves working with different Business Units and specialties to develop and sustain a culture of quality improvement through clinical audit and other quality initiatives. The role will involve: developing audit projects and methodologies; monitoring activity; analysing quantitative and qualitative data; producing reports and presentations; interaction with front-line services; and liaising with staff at all levels in the organisation.

The post will be based at Cobalt but the post holder may be required to work at other sites within the Trust.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Assist in developing and sustaining a culture of clinical audit, support the creation, promotion and delivery of an effective clinical audit programme and provide clinical audit support, training and facilitation to a wide range of staff acting as a named contact for one or more Business Units.

To take a lead on specific priority quality improvement areas and liaise with appropriate Business Unit staff and provide and present regular reports for the Trust on the current status of clinical audit activity.

To coordinate and participate in the Trust's corporate 15 Steps programme involving liaising with clinical and non-clinical staff, timetabling assessment visits, participating in assessment visits and feedback meetings, compiling reports, undertaking review visits and reporting back on progress.

To coordinate and participate in Trust-wide audits, and other quality initiatives, analysing quantitative and qualitative data and producing regular reports and presentations.

To project manage identified audits within different Business Units.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Good standard of education to 'A' level or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• ECDL or equivalent experience of using Microsoft office (especially Excel)

Desirable criteria

• Relevant degree or equivalent
• Clinical Audit qualification

At Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are the cornerstone of our organisation - our very foundation - and it really matters how they feel about working for us which is why we invest heavily in our staff experience and staff health and wellbeing programmes.

We are proud to have been one of the first trusts to go smoke free in March 2018 and offer a great support programme for those looking to quit. Whilst we do not discriminate against those who do smoke we ask that you are smoke free at work. We as a healthcare organisation promote healthy happy lifestyle and want the best for our staff which is why we offer staff a range of fantastic opportunities and support staff to achieve this.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• ADM7667 Job Description and Person specification ( PDF , 283.5 KB )
• Privacy Notice ( PDF , 328.7 KB )
• Northumbria Candidate Pack ( PDF , 434.7 KB )