Job summary
Employer heading
Neonatal Clinical Governance Nurse
Band 7
Job overview
The post holder is responsible for the co-ordination of clinical governance procedures and frameworks within Neonatal services, ensuring systems are in place to manage clinical risk effectively. The post holder will provide leadership, guidance and expertise within the multi-disciplinary team for neonatal services for clinical governance and risk management in line with the Trust-wide framework.
This will include developing and putting in place strategies and frameworks that ensure Neonatal services meets its obligations for clinical governance including risk management.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will foster a culture amongst teams that ensures clinical quality and risk management remains one of the top priorities within the Health group through:
- Enabling all staff to actively participate in identifying, actioning and evaluating all patient safety and risk issues.
- Leading and supporting the communication and management of the issues through the incident reporting system (Datix) in line with policy.
- The post holder will have a unique opportunity to develop the clinical governance role and risk management both locally and regionally. This will include exposure locally, regionally and nationally through collaborative working with the Operational Delivery Network to deliver on risk management strategies.
- The post holder will participate in training and education of staff within neonatal services engendering a proactive and positive clinical governance culture which enables learning and practice development in line with best practice standards
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registered Nurse
- Neonatal qualification
- Health related Degree
- Mentorship/ teaching qualification
- Safeguarding level 1,2 &3
Desirable criteria
- Health related Masters Degree
- Basic counselling/coaching skills
- Risk management training
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- knowledge of safeguarding Children and adults
- Knowledge of clinical audit systems and processes
- Evidence of significant clinical knowledge and experience
- Knowledge of BAPM standards of care and national guidance
- Experience of undertaking Datix investigations
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading a team
- Evidence of evaluating clinical practice through research/ audit
- Experience of project/quality and performance management
- Evidence of of developing new practices
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
- Tracey Omar
- Job title
- Matron- Children, young people and Neonataes
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 608988
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