Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Audit
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7753888
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Effectiveness Facilitator (Band 5)
NHS AfC: Band 5
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
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Job overview
The post holder will assist the Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Manager and the Associate Director of Quality and Governance in promoting, delivering and monitoring the clinical audit and effectiveness work streams including learning from clinical guidelines, NICE guidelines and clinical audit across Airedale NHS Foundation Trust by:
· Contributing to the development and delivery of the Trusts’ clinical audit programme
· Ensuring learning from clinical audits is demonstrated.
· Providing support and training to healthcare professionals in conducting clinical audits that meets Trust and National standards
· Facilitating the implementation of NICE guidance within the Trust, supporting baseline assessments, action plan development by healthcare professionals.
· Producing accurate and timely clinical audit reports and communicating findings to healthcare professionals, committees and other relevant staff.
· Promoting clinical audit within the Trust through engagement with all stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
1. To be responsible for supporting, development and delivery of clinical audit ensuring audits cover national and Trust priorities.
2. To contribute to the development and implementation of Trust wide clinical audit policy/strategy to underpin the delivery of the Quality strategy
3. To liaise with clinical staff at all levels to agree audit project methodologies including design, data collection methods and analytical support.
4. To support both national and local clinical audit activity across the Trust through the collection, collation and presentation of data from a variety of sources.
To ensure that audits that are conducted in a robust manner identifying explicit criteria from national, regional and local guidelines and ensure audits are followed up with applicable action plans to address any gaps.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level/ clinical qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Audit Qualification
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of audit, quality improvement or research.
- Computer literate experienced in use of word, spreadsheets, analytical tools and social media.
- Experience of persuading and influencing staff and negotiating change
- Experience of writing reports (good literacy and numeracy skills)
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of project management
- Understanding of change management
- Worked within a clinical audit/quality improvement area for at least 12 months
- Delivering training to small groups
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of clinical audit process and methodology, including planning and designing the audit.
- Understanding of the elements of Good Governance
- Knowledge of NHS Quality agenda.
- Knowledge of Caldicott Principles, Data Protection and Freedom of Information and its impact on clinical audit.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of medical terminology
- Literature searching and critical appraisal to underpin clinical audit activity
Skills
Essential criteria
- Organisational skills with ability to prioritise tasks
- Able to work on own initiative unsupervised
- Able to manage multiple projects meeting deadlines and achieving objectives.
- Good communication skills , verbal and written Demonstrates good keyboard skills in use of word processing, spreadsheets and databases.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, listening skills, observation and problem solving.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to negotiate and influence.
- Presentation skills
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Adejumobi Sowole
- Job title
- Patient Safety Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 292087
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