# Clinical Audit Assistant > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-audit-assistant/4e38c230-303e-4786-bfd0-6ab1fb149671 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-audit-assistant/4e38c230-303e-4786-bfd0-6ab1fb149671.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Berrywood Hospital - **Workplace type:** hybrid - **Profession:** Assistant (management discipline unspecified) - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 Pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-13T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-01T11:11:36.565Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Northamptonshire/Northampton/Northamptonshire_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Audit/Clinical_Audit-v8278956 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8278956?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nhft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The post holder will report to the Head of Clinical Audit & Effectiveness and will work closely with clinicians, managers and multidisciplinary teams to facilitate local and national audit projects, design data collection tools, collect and analyse data, maintain audit records, produce reports and support services to implement improvements arising from audit findings ### Main duties of the job - Support the delivery of the Trust Clinical Audit Programme, including local, national and mandatory audit activity. - Coordinate and facilitate audit projects throughout the full audit cycle, from registration and design through to reporting, action planning and re-audit. - Administer and maintain the Trust's Audit Management and Tracking System (AMaT), ensuring audit records, timelines, actions and outcomes are accurate and up to date. - Support clinical teams in the creation, maintenance and monitoring of online audit projects to track audit progress, compliance and improvement activity. - Collect, validate, analyse and input audit data accurately and within agreed timescales. - Produce audit reports, presentations, dashboards and summaries to support decision-making and governance processes. - Monitor audit progress through AMaT and provide regular updates and exception reporting to relevant governance and assurance forums. - Provide training on a one-to-one basis or to teams on clinical audit methodology and the use of AMaT. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Support the delivery of the Trust Clinical Audit Programme, including local, national and mandatory audit activity. - Coordinate and facilitate audit projects throughout the full audit cycle, from registration and design through to reporting, action planning and re-audit. - Administer and maintain the Trust's Audit Management and Tracking System (AMaT), ensuring audit records, timelines, actions and outcomes are accurate and up to date. - Support clinical teams in the creation, maintenance and monitoring of online audit projects to track audit progress, compliance and improvement activity. - Collect, validate, analyse and input audit data accurately and within agreed timescales. - Develop and maintain audit tools, questionnaires, data collection systems and reporting templates. - Produce audit reports, presentations, dashboards and summaries to support decision-making and governance processes. - Support clinical teams in measuring compliance against national guidance, local standards and best practice requirements. - Monitor audit progress through AMaT and provide regular updates and exception reporting to relevant governance and assurance forums. - Maintain accurate records of audit activity, organisational compliance, action plans and audit outcomes. - Support services to ensure recommendations, lessons learned and improvement actions arising from audit activity are documented, monitored and evidenced through completion. - Support services in developing and implementing action plans and coordinating follow-up and re-audit activity to demonstrate improvement. - Provide training on a one to one basis or to teams on clinical audit methodology the use of AMaT. - Support participation in national, regional and mandatory audit programmes, ensuring reporting requirements are met. - Prepare agendas, reports, minutes and supporting documentation for the Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Committee - Contribute to assurance reporting for Trust committees, sub-committees and governance groups. - Promote evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness and continuous quality improvement across the organisation. - Liaise with internal and external stakeholders regarding audit activity, reporting requirements, governance processes and system developments For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description ### Applicant requirements This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Skills and abilities **Essential** - - Excellent communication skills, both written & oral, and interpersonal skills in order to form and maintain positive rapports with a variety of colleagues both internal and external - - Ability to work to deadlines and ability to prioritise workload - - Ability to provide advice to clinicians regarding ensuring clinical audit measure standards which affect healthcare - - Good analytical skills with a proactive approach to process improvement - - Good quality report writing skills & delivery of information as required ### Behaviours and values **Essential** - - Enthusiastic, motivated and able to work autonomously as well as within a team - - Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently - - Committed to continual quality and service improvement - - Able to engage with a variety of people, including those within an identified team and those in external agencies ### Knowledge and experience **Essential** - - Knowledge of clinical audit methodology and quality assurance processes. - - Experience supporting clinical audit, and evidence of attendance of clinical audit training - - Experience of managing multiple workstreams and competing priorities. - - Training health professionals & others on audit methodology techniques **Desirable** - - Strong understanding of data processing with the ability to identify trends and themes in the data - - Experience using audit management systems or databases. ## Documents - [your guide to nhft (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3047) - [job description - clinical audit assistant (pdf, 416.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10595257) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.