Clinical Governance Facilitator

Job overview

What is Governance - Governance at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (ROH) refers to the systems, structures and processes used to ensure that the organisation is well led, accountable, financially sustainable, and provides safe, effective, and high-quality patient care.

Clinical governance is particularly important within ROH because it ensures that clinical services are safe, evidence-based, and continually improving. This includes monitoring incidents, complaints, patient experience, clinical outcomes, and compliance with professional and regulatory standards.

In summary, ROH's governance framework aims to ensure that decisions are made appropriately, risks are identified and managed, resources are used effectively, and patients receive safe and high-quality orthopaedic care.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for working with Divisional Head of Nursing and Clinical Governance Lead to facilitate the bi-weekly divisional governance meetings. This includes organising and attending a pre-meet in order to agree incidents for escalation and agree agenda, collating and disseminating papers and reports for the meeting; and presenting and facilitating the patient safety incident and risk aspect of the agenda.
• Responsible for facilitating the completion of PSIRF learning responses, including support and advice to learning response authors, proofreading responses, identification and monitoring of actions, and the facilitation and writing up of SWARMS.
• Responsible for creating and presenting patient safety and risk register incident reports for a wide variety of specialty meetings, boards and committees, and completion of relevant actions and updates following.
• Responsible for presentation of Governance aspects of training.
• Responsible for provision of training to all staff on the use of the Trust’s patient safety incident reporting system.
• Responsible for day-to-day maintenance of the Trust’s patient safety incident reporting system, risk register module and Complaints module.
• Assist with the dissemination of learning from patient safety incidents, including follow up of actions.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Why choose The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital:

Meaningful impact on patient safety and quality: Clinical Governance is central to monitoring clinical risk, patient safety, quality of care and patient experience at ROH. The Trust’s governance structures provide oversight of clinical risks and the effectiveness of actions taken to mitigate them.

Opportunity to learn from real clinical data: Governance work brings together areas such as, incidents, complaints, risk management, and quality improvement.

A specialist orthopaedic environment: ROH is a specialist orthopaedic centre, so applicants can gain experience in governance within a highly focused clinical setting.

Exposure to multidisciplinary working: Governance requires collaboration between clinicians, nurses, managers, patients, and other professional groups. Working in this environment can help to develop communication, organisation, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.