Clinical Audit Co-ordinator

Job overview

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We are seeking a highly motivated and proactive Band 5 Clinical Audit Co-ordinator to join our Quality Assurance and Effectiveness team. This is a permanent contract working 37.5 hours per week based in Stafford.

In the role you will play a key role in promoting and supporting clinical audit activity across the organisation.  You will promote, support and undertake clinical audit activity.  This includes supporting evidence-based care; systematically reviewing the procedures used for diagnosis, care and treatment against agreed standards.

You will raise awareness of audit findings and to promote wider learning and improvement based on the outcome of local audit. You will act as a link with a nominated Care Group(s), responsible for developing and delivering a clinical audit programme which reflects national, Trust and service priorities.

This role requires excellent communication, organisational and analytical skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders, support evidence-based practice, and contribute to a high-quality, effective audit programme aligned to organisational priorities.

Main duties of the job

• Co-ordination of clinical audit activities within care groups according to the needs and priorities of those care groups. Including advising on the production of care group forward programmes and reporting back on the progress of that plan.
• To facilitate and advise clinicians in setting up clinical audit projects including establishing best practice; ensuring appropriate, robust methodologies for measuring care against criteria; taking actions to improve care and monitoring to sustain improvements.
• Develop and maintain the role of the Clinical Audit link to designated care group(s).  Working closely with clinical directors and services, contributing to the content of the forward programme and negotiating priorities and deadlines of projects being supported.
• Contribute to the identification of themes that need to be addressed through clinical audit, such as those highlighted by identified risks and critical incidents.
• To support care group(s) clinical directors generate assurance information in relation to clinical outcomes and clinical pathways, in line with national requirements
• To provide support to the Quality Standards Assurance Visits (QSAV) programme
• To use a clinical audit process that ensures completion of the audit cycle, demonstrates improvements and ensures effective sharing and learning from completed projects.
• Required to communicate with various internal / external representatives in relation to the audits they are involved in.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This vacancy is only open at this stage to internal employees of the following organisations within the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care System:

• Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
• North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
• University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, inclusive of Black Country Procurement Group and North Midlands and Cheshire Pathology Service.
• Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for more details