Job overview
The post holder will assist the Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Manager and the Associate Director of Quality and Governance in promoting, delivering and monitoring the clinical audit and effectiveness work streams including learning from clinical guidelines, NICE guidelines and clinical audit across Airedale NHS Foundation Trust by:
- Contributing to the development and delivery of the Trusts’ clinical audit programme
- Ensuring learning from clinical audits is demonstrated.
- Providing support and training to healthcare professionals in conducting clinical audits that meets Trust and National standards
- Facilitating the implementation of NICE guidance within the Trust, supporting baseline assessments, action plan development by healthcare professionals.
- Producing accurate and timely clinical audit reports and communicating findings to healthcare professionals, committees and other relevant staff.
- Promoting clinical audit within the Trust through engagement with all stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for supporting, development and delivery of clinical audit ensuring audits cover national and Trust priorities.
- To contribute to the development and implementation of Trust wide clinical audit policy/strategy to underpin the delivery of the Quality strategy
- To liaise with clinical staff at all levels to agree audit project methodologies including design, data collection methods and analytical support.
- To support both national and local clinical audit activity across the Trust through the collection, collation and presentation of data from a variety of sources.
To ensure that audits that are conducted in a robust manner identifying explicit criteria from national, regional and local guidelines and ensure audits are followed up with applicable action plans to address any gaps.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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