Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Audit
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 308-CORP-3227
- Employer
- London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust HQ
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £38,488 - £46,852 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Auditor
NHS AfC: Band 5
Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year. We are the busiest emergency ambulance service in the UK serving one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities. We provide emergency and urgent healthcare that is free to patients at the time they receive it.
We are the only NHS provider trust to serve the whole of London and the nine million people who live in, work in or visit the city. We cover an area of 620sq miles and have more than 8,000 people who work or volunteer for us – rising to 10,000 when including bank staff and students.
We answer around two million 999 calls a year and our crews attend more than 3000 emergencies a day. Our 24-hour 111 integrated urgent care services London answer around two million calls a year.
We play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care in the capital and are striving to ensure patients receive the right response, in the right place, at the right time
Our main role is to respond to emergency 999 calls, providing medical care to patients across the capital, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Other services we offer include providing pre-arranged patient transport and finding hospital beds. Working with the police and the fire service, we are prepared for dealing with large-scale or major incidents in the capital.
Job overview
Working within the Clinical Audit and Research Unit (CARU), the Clinical Audit Officer is responsible for undertaking clinical audit projects aimed at producing changes to London Ambulance Service (LAS) practices and improving the quality of care delivered to our patients. This includes examining the appropriateness of the treatment given by ambulance crews to the patient (in accordance with clinical guidelines) and the suitability of the level of the emergency response provided (e.g. response times, type of vehicle deployed, etc.). The Clinical Audit Officer designs and sets-up projects; collects, inputs and analyses data, writes reports and formulates recommendations for changes to practice. They also support other staff undertaking clinical audit, both internally and externally, by providing individual tuition and contributing to clinical audit training sessions.
Please note the assessments and interviews are being proposed to be on the following dates:
Assessments 8th May
Interviews 15th May
Main duties of the job
- Undertaking clinical audit projects
- Meeting administration
- Dissemination of clinical audit findings
- Promotion of an Evidence-Based culture
Working for our organisation
Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:
- Our care – delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
- Our organisation – being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.
- Our London – using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.
To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description under documents for the full list of roles and responsibilities for this role.
Person specification
Qualifications, Accreditations, Education
Essential criteria
- Undergraduate degree in a relevant area (science or social science) or evidence of academic ability to this level
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of undertaking projects using methods relevant to research or audit
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to use data sampling and data collection methods
- Statistical analysis skills (descriptive and comparative) to intermediate level
- Demonstrable working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Internet and Email and Outlook
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanna Shaw
- Job title
- Clinical Audit Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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