Quality Governance Support - #1747486

Job Overview

This is a 1 year maternity cover post working as part of the divisional governance team, supporting Jameson division with all elements of the governance agenda.

Main duties of the job

Principle duties include:

To act as a point of contact for routine quality governance matters; helping with and following up actions as requested.

To proactively work with services to support delivery of the Quality Governance agenda and embed learning, evidence based practice and improvement in care.

To build close working relationships with services and other stakeholders to facilitate a positive environment for improving the quality of services across the division.

Working for our organisation

The Jameson Quality Governance team supports services in Mental Health Services, Learning Disabilities and Perinatal Services.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of Quality Governance, the post will work as part of the integrated governance team supporting activities across all areas of quality governance.

To support the Head of Quality Governance by coordinating and helping to lead related governance projects and act as the first point of contact for enquiries from Divisional Team

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Health / Social Sciences degree
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous quality improvement experience
• Previous experience of working within the NHS.
• Previous project management experience or equivalent
• Experience of change management and putting ideas into practice.
• Experience of team working
• Experience of delivering to deadlines
• Experience of writing reports and presenting data to diverse audiences.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of using statistical software packages, such as SPSS.
• Experience of designing databases.
• Experience of using questionnaire design packages
• Experience of developing and delivering training
• Experience of managing or supervising staff
  
  

Skills And Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to undertake clinical audit projects
• Ability to work in isolation but also as part of a team
• Interpersonal skills
• Analytical skills
• Able to write complex reports
• Communications skills including good presentation skills
• Managing complexity
• Prioritisation skills
• IT literate (intermediate level) in word, excel, power point
• Group working skills
• Facilitation
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Project management skills