Clinical Governance Co-ordinator

The Heart & Lung Harefield Directorate is looking for a proactive and organised Clinical Governance Coordinator to support clinical departments with the governance of their operational services and communication with patients. The post holder will provide a high quality operational support function to the Directorate Quality & Safety team. This would include implementation of office systems and processes, leading on delivery management for projects, produce regular compliance, completeness and missing data reports, facilitate the collection of clinical governance related cardiology and surgery data within the Heart & Lung Harefield directorate, co-ordinate a timely response from clinicians to data queries and their collection and input of data for submission to national databases, support the Senior Clinical Outcomes Analysts in all aspects of his/her role to assist and work with the Quality & Safety Lead in quality and safety activities.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Administrative support to Quality & Safety Lead in responding to clinical governance concerns.
- To compile Directorate reports in conjunction with the Quality & Safety Lead, and to present reports/presentations on directorate progress on a regular basis and as required to the service Working Groups.
- To co-ordinate and support the directorate Quality & Safety group meetings, take minutes, and maintain and develop internal and external networks.
- To facilitate the directorate risk assessment process and to ensure that the directorate risk register is effectively populated, to analyse and identify trends and actions arising, and to monitor on a regular basis to ensure that risks are controlled.
- To ensure the implementation of the Trust Incident reporting system within the directorate, providing investigative support where appropriate.
- Manage the collection of data so the management and clinical staff have access to timely and accurate information on all key performance indicators.
- Compile reports, trend analysis from the data collected.
- To send out weekly reports on the completion of both the surgical and cardiology / PCI databases
- To provide ad hoc training on data entry to all levels of staff on the databases
- Co-ordination of key governance information including incident reports
- Opportunity to develop and implement an audit programme that supports the needs of clinical governance and quality improvement, including national registries

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners, an academic health sciences centre, and pioneers in health research, and providing high quality teaching and education. This partnership helps provide the latest treatments alongside the best possible care. The Heart & Lung Harefield Quality & Safety Team is part of the Heart, Lung and Critical Care Group. The team work closely with our clinical group colleagues as well as across directorates. We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities.
- Support the Quality & Safety Lead in implementing Trust/NHS patient safety directives and identify, lead on and implement internal service improvements. Continuously review governance processes and make recommendations for improvement as appropriate. This will require working autonomously to understand and drive performance targets.
- Responsible as the implementation lead for cross-directorate projects, ensuring delivery against deadlines and Trust standards are achieved.
- Manage the collection of data so the management and clinical staff have access to timely and accurate information on all key performance indicators.
- Compile reports, trend analysis from the data collected.
- Manage the implementation and co-ordination of risk management arrangements to ensure effective delivery of service.
- Support the design, registration, implementation and reporting of audits in collaboration with clinical staff.
- Collate and present statistical data as required
- Provide a pivotal communication link in the Directorate for clinical governance, including collating and forwarding information, the coordination of regular meetings and arranging events as required.
- Sit on departmental working groups contributing to patient safety and quality improvement in the directorate.
- Develop and write policies and procedure in collaboration with staff.
- To facilitate the Directorate risk assessment process and to ensure that the Directorate risk register is effectively populated and to monitor action plans on a regular basis to ensure that risks are controlled.
- To work alongside clinical audit leads within specialties and to develop and implement an audit programme that supports the needs of clinical governance and quality improvement, including the NHS Litigation Authority’s Risk Management Standards.
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