Matron for Care Excellence - Assessment and Accreditation
Location
Nuneaton, Warwickshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Matron for Care Excellence – Assessment and Accreditation
Job Title-Matron for Care Excellence - Assessment and Accreditation
Perm/Fixed Term-Permanent
Closing Date-18th March 2024
Interview Date-05th April 2024
We are delighted to announce this new role which will strengthen our ambition across Georger Eliot for delivering Care Excellence.
You will be joining a supportive Corporate Nursing and Midwifery team who value the contributions of each team member in the delivery of our Care Excellence vision, promoting a culture where staff are valued and supported to deliver high quality care.
The successful post holder will lead on the development and roll out of the Assessment and Accreditation quality improvement framework across the Trust creating a culture of continuous quality improvement where Care Excellence is embedded and Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals are enabled to grow, develop, and flourish.
This post may close early due to high numbers of applicationsso you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
Main duties of the job
- Develop, coordinate, and implement the Assessment and Accreditation framework across all designated clinical areas.
- Deliver reports based on the findings of Assessment and Accreditation, identifying areas for improvement i.e., Trust Board sub committees/Chief Nursing Officer
- Liaise with Heads of Nursing, Matrons and Ward Managers to provide feedback on individual Assessment and Accreditation process.
- Engage with Heads of Nursing to provide summary report on Assessment and Accreditation, identifying areas of concern.
- Work closely with other teams within the organisation to ensure a consistent approach to professional nursing standards, quality improvement, risk management and assurance across the Trust.
- Develop and implement Trust wide policies, procedures and guidelines relating to Assessment and Accreditation professional nurse standards.
- Establish strong links with the communications team to ensure that professional nursing standards and improvement messages are effectively communicated both internally and externally.
- Identify priorities the management of professional nursing standards through developing, testing, and leading improvement pathways.
- To develop and maintain a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate compliance with CQC standards based on Assessment and Accreditation
- Represent nursing at external events and conferences, ensuring findings from quality improvement initiatives are in the public domain.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to ' excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
E ffective Open Communication
e x cellence and safety in everything we do
C hallenge but support
E xpect respect and dignity
L ocal health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job responsibilities
- Promote the Assessment and Accreditation process to staff throughout the Trust.
- Provide training and education to all clinical staff groups across the Trust on essential patient safety tools, harm reduction methodologies and service improvement models linked to Assessment and Accreditation.
- Acts as a lead in planning and Quality Improvement training workshops and courses.
- Plan, establish and participate in a program of activities to include Harm Free Care Collaboratives and steering groups.
- Work in collaboration with the Education Team team to facilitate Trust wide training programmes relating to Assessment and Accreditation and patient safety and quality improvement.
- To support the analysis of baseline data within specific specialties and agree an audit plan to enable measurement of progress against reducing rates of harm related to Assessment and Accreditation
- Develop a process to ensure that Trust Assessment and Accreditation clinical indicators align to those expected by external agencies.
- Present complex data and analysis to relevant assurance committees and governance groups
- Contribute to the annual Quality Account reporting mechanism and where necessary identify actions and recommendations.
- Support incident investigations, ensure lessons learnt are communicated within Directorates.
- To utilise research/evidence to inform professional nursing standards and quality improvement at Directorate level.
- Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and clinical guidelines
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
- oPrevious experience/understanding of investigating or reviewing Incidents/deaths
- oSignificant experience of writing high quality, comprehensive and concise report
- oExperience of analysing, interpreting and acting on complex data to support the quality agenda
- oManagement of the clinical effectiveness team and competent at objective setting
- oExperience and knowledge of the national clinical audit and effectiveness agenda
- oDemonstrable knowledge of patient safety investigation principles and concepts which underpin approaches to improving patient safety in health systems
- oDemonstrable knowledge of the national approach to Learning from Deaths processes including Structured Judgment Reviews
- oExperience of action plan development and monitoring
- oAn understanding of NHS care structures, information flows within the NHS and medical terminology
- oEvidence of continuing professional development.
- oExperience in managing a service.
- oExperience of Research Management
- oExperience of audit and resource
- oExperience of preparing/giving presentations
- oExperience in designing complex questionnaires, data collection sheets and patient surveys to capture qualitative and quantitative data and information for large projects
- oExperience of involving patients/service users in clinical audit activity, together with experience of multidisciplinary and interface audit
- oKnowledge and a strong interest in informatics and analytics, underpinned by significant experience
- oQualification in Clinical Audit/Quality Improvement
- oQualification in Clinical Audit/Quality Improvement
- oQualification/formal training on Mortality and Morbidity and Learning from Deaths
- oWorking with a high level of autonomy, and minimal oversight, to lead on the strategic direction of clinical audit in the Trust.
- oWorking with a high level of autonomy, and minimal oversight, to lead on the strategic direction of clinical audit in the Trust.
- oWorking with a high level of autonomy, and minimal oversight, to lead on the strategic direction of clinical audit in the Trust.
- oResponsible for providing direction and support to executive directors, lead managers, clinicians and support staff to implement systems and processes that support clinical effectiveness
- oResponsible for influencing senior managers and clinicians to develop a culture that supports clinical effectiveness throughout the Trust
- oResponsible for training and supporting staff to improve their clinical effectiveness focus to ensure that care and treatment provided to patients is clinically effective
- oAttending external events to improve knowledge of quality and clinical effectiveness activities.
- oAbility to build strong working relationships and communicate effectively with staff at all levels, both clinical and non-clinical
- oAbility to build strong working relationships and communicate effectively with staff at all levels, both clinical and non-clinical
- oAbility to write clear reports and incorporate statistical information appropriately
- oAbility to write clear reports and incorporate statistical information appropriately
- oAbility to write clear reports and incorporate statistical information appropriately
- oAbility to keep both manual and computer-held information confidential and handle confidential and sensitive information
- oExcellent interpersonal skills with polite, pleasant and understanding manner
- oAbility to adapt to meet changing requirements and needs
- oAbility to work alone and unsupervised and within a multi-disciplinary setting when appropriate
- oAbility to liaise effectively with different groups
- oExperience of using evidence based practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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