Governance Lead

Are you an experienced governance professional who is looking for your next role? Would you like to improve patient outcomes through promoting and maintaining a high standard of compliance and due diligence?

We are looking to recruit a full time governance lead to our Southend Theatre team to contribute to the safety and quality of our patient care within the theatre setting.

So, if you want to join a team where you will get the opportunity to act as a catalyst for change and lead quality improvement initiatives then we want to hear from you.

This role will see you leading, negotiating and communicating with a wide variety of staff and departments to ensure that our theatres department at Southend are adhering to the highest standards of patient safety, compliance and clinical guidelines. Some of your duties will include:
Leading in the early identification of risks and concerns that leads to individual ,team and wider organisational learning.

Represent T&A at governance meetings, leading and maintaining the governance framework.

In conjunction with the Governance Team actively seek out best practice and innovation from within the NHS and elsewhere, participating in benchmarking and or research around the topic of governance and risk reduction as appropriate.

Establish and maintain collaborative relationships and effective team working with clinical leads and managers to ensure increased understanding/compliance with all governance standards.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

For full roles and responsibilities of this interesting role please see attached job description, but these include:

- Take a lead role to ensure that services identify action plans in response to recommendations made from complaint and SI incident investigations.
- Ensure robust mechanisms are in place for regularly reviewing action plans, ensuring that evidence of completion is submitted to Datix once actions have been closed.
- Monitor performance against complaints, incident and SI management targets, escalating poor performance to the Clinical Director of T&A.
- Work with the Governance Team to support implementation of compliance with NICE guidance across T&A.
- Encourage and ensure consultants and clinical teams register all (national and local) audit projects
- Collate and report Surgery’s position in relation to NICE guidance as required liaising with Clinical Directors, Senior Nurses and Service Managers to reflect evidence of appraisal, implementation and audit of guidance.
- Provide reports to groups and committees as required in respect of trends and learning from complaints, incidents, audit and patient surveys.