Divisional Governance and Assurance Officer

2 weeks ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Divisional Governance & Assurance Officer
Band 6
Permanent
37.5 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to join the Medicine Division’s Governance Team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The Division is looking to recruit an experienced, motivated, and independently minded Divisional Governance & Assurance Officer to support the Divisional Governance Lead in the delivery of governance across all aspects of patient safety, risk management, audit and effectiveness and regulatory compliance.

The post holder will work closely with the Divisional Governance Lead, promoting and facilitating the Quality Governance Framework within the Division. Applicants should have a good understanding and knowledge of the Governance agenda across the NHS.

Reporting to the Divisional Governance Lead, the post holder will have responsibility for supporting all aspects of governance across the Division, including incident and complaint management, risk, and clinical audit and effectiveness processes.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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See the enclosed job description for the full duties of the post which are inclusive of the following:

- Promote and facilitate the development of effective governance, risk, clinical effectiveness, and assurance within the division
- Support the care group directors, audit and governance leads, matrons, lead nurses in the delivery of key objectives
- Support the care groups in the effective monitoring of the Trust’s risk, incident, and complaint processes within the division
- Develop and implement systems and processes for effective and proactive dissemination of information arising from investigations to promote the sharing of information and lessons learnt
- When required, represent the Divisional Governance Lead at the Divisional Assurance meeting and present information in accordance with the annual plan and agenda.
- When required represent the Division at the Trust Weekly Safety Meeting and present information with regards to the incident and complaints investigation.
- Act as a local point of contact for the DATIX system and provide Care Group level knowledge to ensure that the administrative requirements of incident, complaint and risk management processes are met
- Assist in the development of local policies and procedures associated with governance and assurance
- Support the Care Group in the monitoring and overseeing of documents, including patient information leaflets to ensure all are updated within the appropriate time frame
- Provide support to the Divisional Governance Lead in the delivery of key divisional governance objectives
- Supervise and support the Divisional Governance and Assurance Administrator



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