Patient Safety and Quality Facilitator

Evelina London Children's Hospital is seeking a patient safety and quality facilitator to join the Children's Surgery, Theatres and Anaesthesia Directorate.

The post holder will co-ordinate the clinical governance agenda within this Evelina London Directorate. This covers assessing, monitoring and improving services, risk management, patient safety, clinical audit, quality improvement programmes, staff involvement, education and training, and the use of information, including guidelines and supporting patient and public involvement and patient information.

Specifically the post holder will provide multidisciplinary clinical staff with the support to implement effectively the principles and practice of clinical governance and quality improvement across the Directorate, within a framework that uses information to guide reflection, leading to action and outcomes monitoring. The post holder will work closely with the central clinical governance team to deliver Trust approved work programmes.

The post holder will undertake these functions under the professional management of the Evelina London Head of Patient Safety, Assurance and Quality.

The post holder will have regular contact with the following staff in Evelina London: Clinical Director, Heads of Nursing, Clinical Patient Safety Leads, Clinical Audit Leads, Matrons, Service Leads, Ward Sisters, Nursing staff and Clinical Nurse Specialists, General Manager, Service Managers and Assistant Service Managers, Consultants and Junior Medical Staff, Allied Health Professionals, Pharmacists, Administrative and Clerical Support Staff, Professional and Technical staff, children and their families.
They will also have regular contact with other Clinical Governance Facilitators in other directorates and the central clinical QIPS team.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals - Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation

At Evelina, we are reminded every day of how important life is, and how important it is to look after the health and wellbeing of our staff as they balance of responsibilities in and out of work. We are committed to supporting flexible working; we want to support you to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**Responsibilities**:
**Clinical Governance**:
a. To coordinate the implementation of the directorate clinical governance programme of work linked to the Evelina London and GSTTs.
b. To work with the Directorate Teams and the Head of Patient Safety, Assurance and Quality to assemble and analyze quantitative and qualitative information in ways that help staff reflect on their service and practice.
c. To co-ordination the Directorates response to the review of information based on local and Trust priorities in the light of the National Service Frameworks, National Confidential Enquiries, and National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence guidance (NICE).
d. To co-ordinate the Directorate responsibilities in relation to external accreditation
e. To compile Directorate clinical governance reports and to present reports/presentations at Directorate and SBU forums and meetings.
f. To monitor, support and review any changes implemented as part of the clinical governance action plan or work programme, with the CD and HoN.
g. To build and develop information resources pertinent to clinical governance as a resource for the Directorate.
h. To provide help and support for staff in the development of guidelines / patient information and give assistance with the submission process.
i. To undertake training and education programmes on clinical governance for all staff within Evelina London in accordance with the overall Trust programme.
j. To co-ordinate and support the chair of the Directorate Management Team meeting with the patient safety, assurance and quality agenda.

Risk Management
a. To co-ordinate risk management across the Directorate.
b. To co-ordinate the use and management of Datix in relation to Directorate activities.
c. To provide support to staff for incident monitoring/investigation where appropriate.
d. To support and/or lead investigations for serious adverse incidents within the Directorate.
e. To facilitate shared learning from incidents
f. To facilitate the directorate risk assessment process and to support DMT in ensuring the Directorate risk register is effectively populated, to analyze and identify trends and actions arising, and to monitor on a regular basis to ensure that risks are controlled.
g. To bring to the attention of the