Radiology Quality

The Radiology Quality & Governance Advisor is a member of the Quality & Governance Team for Radiology and working collaboratively across disciplines, the post holder will lead on all aspects of quality governance including serious incident investigations, as delegated by the Radiology Quality & Governance Lead, within the Department to facilitate learning and improvements in clinical practice and safety to reduce risk.

The role will incorporate the promotion of a positive learning environment where changes are established and embedded to improve patient safety, experience and outcomes. An open learning culture will be fostered which will ensures that both lessons are learnt, and appropriate action is taken in response to mistakes and service failures as well as learning from excellent practice and contributing to the dissemination of this.

The post holder will support the Radiology Quality & Governance Lead and the Clinical Governance Lead for the Department to ensure that all areas of quality governance including clinical incidents, serious clinical Incidents and the wider Trust Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement agenda are addressed and actioned.

The post holder will be required to ensure investigations are undertaken in accordance with Trust and National procedures (where applicable). The post holder will be required to ensure appropriate linkage of such investigations to complaints and CQC investigations (where applicable).

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring any lessons to be learned as a consequence of the investigation are identified and shared with the relevant key stakeholders.

The post holder will work alongside clinical specialists to ensure that appropriate clinical advice is sought and provided to investigations and other quality governance processes.

The post holder will support the clinical and/or operational teams at the debrief for staff and/or patients/family following the completion of an investigation. The post holder will provide advice and guidance on Trust wide policies relevant to patient safety investigations.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with the Radiology Quality & Governance team embedding our systems and processes for supporting learning and improvement programmes, for quality and safety across the Trust.

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.