Job summary
- Main area
- Divisional Governance Lead – Urgent Care - Cross site working
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 374-JY857
- Employer
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Division wide
- Town
- Eastbourne
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum,
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Divisional Governance Lead – Urgent Care
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work.
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust provides safe, compassionate and high quality hospital and community care to the half a million people living in East Sussex and those who visit our local area.
We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex with an annual income of £568 million and we are the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex.
Our extensive health services are provided by over 7,000 dedicated members of staff working from two acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites across East Sussex, and in people’s own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being Caring and Effective. The Conquest Hospital in Hastings and our Community Services were rated ‘Outstanding’ and Eastbourne DGH was rated ‘Good’ Our two acute hospitals have Emergency Departments and provide 24 hour a day care, offering a comprehensive range of surgical, medical, outpatient and maternity services, supported by a full range of diagnostic and therapy services.
In the summer of 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ (BFF) programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to redevelop and expand our hospitals at Eastbourne, Hastings and Bexhill, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
Our vision is to deliver high quality care and experience for our patients, communities and colleagues.
Our strategic objectives:
Quality: Delivering safe care; always improving outcomes and experience for patients.
People: Fostering a positive culture; living our values; helping our teams feel equipped to deliver.
Sustainability: Always searching for the best way to use our resources for clinical, workforce and financial outcomes.
Job overview
Divisional Governance Lead – Urgent Care
Band 8A – Full Time Hours – 37.5 per week.
Cross site working
East Sussex Healthcare Trust is an Integrated Acute and Community organisation, our focus is the care of our patients and our colleagues across our acute, community and intermediate care services. We are an exciting, fast paced division that has exciting opportunities for service delivery / change and quality improvement, with patient and staff safety being our priority.
We are looking for a Governance lead to join our Urgent Care division that covers the Emergency Departments / Urgent Treatment Centre’s, Acute Medicine and Frailty clinical units across both acute sites. We are looking for someone who can
demonstrate experience in delivering outstanding clinical services, has a proven track record on delivering quality improvements in nursing and integrated teams and be passionate about working as a collaborative leader within the organisation and within the wider system.
In return we will offer you excellent managerial support and commitment to your personal professional development. 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.
For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Amy Collis – Assistant Director of Nursing on 0300 131 4500 requesting switchboard connect you or via email [email protected]
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for leading the Urgent Care quality and clinical governance programme.
Have a proven track record of delivering quality improvements in nursing care.
Develop relationships with key stakeholders across Sussex.
Support the implementation of the clinical governance framework.
Support the development of policies and procedures and ensure policies are embedded in practice.
Support practices with delivery of their quality action plans.
Support improvement planning and preparation for external inspections.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To gather, analyse and interpret information in order to provide reports in respect of key quality indicators. To seek assurance that standards are being achieved or that actions are completed where issues are highlighted.
To facilitate the investigation of serious incidents, internal investigations and complaints in accordance with Trust policies and procedures and ensure that lessons are learned are implemented, and shared within the Division and across the organisation.
Please refer to the job description attached.
If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Registered Practitioner, First Level Qualified Nurse or relevant experience.
- NVQ 4 in Management or appropriate diploma management course.
- A minimum of six years’ experience in Risk Management with a Clinical Diploma in Risk Management or equivalent.
- Root Cause Analysis Training
- Evidence of continuing relevant professional development to masters equivalent level
- Previous experience of implementation of Clinical Governance processes and procedures at a senior management level
- Proven experience of working in a clinical setting
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amy Collis
- Job title
- Assistant Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07816 368989
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