Divisional Governance and Assurance Officer

4 months ago


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

Divisional Governance and Assurance Officer - Surgical Division

An exciting opportunity exists to join the Royal Site Governance Team and support the Division of Surgery to fulfil their roles in quality governance.

The post holder will work closely with the Site Divisional Governance Teams, promoting and facilitating the Quality Governance Framework within the Surgical Division.

Applicants should have a good understanding and knowledge of the Governance agenda across the NHS.

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.

Reporting to the Governance Lead, the post holder will have a good understanding & knowledge of governance in a health care setting and will have responsibility for supporting all aspects of governance across their area of responsibility. This will include advice and support regarding incident and complaints management processes and clinical effectiveness.

Key Working Relationships

**Internal**: Assistant Director of Governance or Head of Governance, Governance Lead, Legal Services Colleagues, Lead Clinicians, Heads of Department, Senior Managers, Central Governance Team, Ward Managers.

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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Promote and facilitate the development of effective governance and assurance.

Provide support to key leaders within their area of responsibility in the delivery of their governance objectives. This will include clinical directors, care group leads, audit and governance leads, matrons and ward managers.

Support local identification of incidents requiring more detailed investigation or review

Support the effective monitoring of the Trust’s Risk, Incident and Complaints process within their area of responsibility.

Lead the oversight of investigations, duty of candour compliance and learning from events within their area of responsibility.

Provide leaders with regular data and reports that support them to take action and implement learning

Implement systems and processes for effective and proactive dissemination of information arising from investigations and reviews to promote the sharing of information and lessons learnt.

Act as local point of contact for the Datix system and ensure the administrative requirements of incident, complaint and risk management process are met.

Assist in the development of local policies and procedures associated with governance and assurance and the promotion of good document management practices in their area of responsibility, ensuring all are updated within the appropriate time frame.

Provide support to the Governance Lead in the delivery of key governance objectives.

Work closely with the Governance and Assurance Administrator.

Work alongside colleagues in other key roles within the governance structure to ensure your areas of responsibility look at data and identify learning collaboratively

Establish and maintain close working relationships with the Patient Advice and Complaints Team.

Establish and maintain close working relationships with Legal and Risk Managers established within the Trust.

Attend local meetings in relation to governance.



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