Neonatal Governance Lead

The role of the Neonatal Governance Lead is to take responsibility for monitoring incident reports within the neonatal service, identify emerging themes and learning from incidents. The postholder will support staff to learn from incidents and embed changes in practice to prevent re-occurrence.

The Neonatal Governance Lead will contribute to the investigations of significant events and serious incidents pertaining to the Neonatal Service, producing, and monitoring action plans, and to assist with identifying and ensuring appropriate action is taken to recommendations from local and national bodies within the scope of their role.

Corporate Responsibilities
- To work collaboratively with other colleagues across the Trust
- Act as a role model in customer service towards visitors to the hospital
- To facilitate any measures to help achieve Directorate and Trust targets and disseminate all appropriate information to all members of the nursing team

Risk Management, Quality Assurance and Monitoring
- Co-ordinate and promote clinical governance and risk management processes within the Neonatal Service.
- Support staff in the timely reporting of all neonatal clinical incidents.
- Oversee and monitor the neonatal incidents reported through the Trust’s incident reporting system i.e., DATIX
- Collate incident statistics and monitor trends from adverse incidents.
- Communicate relevant findings to promote an environment which learns from incident reporting.
- Work with the neonatal education team to support education and training in response to incidents.
- Participate in the seamless investigation of all serious untoward incidents as instructed by the Neonatal Matron &/or the Trust’s Governance and Risk team.
- Work in partnership with the Neonatal Matron in reporting incidents to other agencies where appropriate via the Trust’s Governance and Risk Management Lead.
- Contribute to the maintenance and updating of the Neonatal Service Risk Register.

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Corporate Responsibilities
- To work collaboratively with other colleagues across the Trust
- Act as a role model in customer service towards visitors to the hospital
- To facilitate any measures to help achieve Directorate and Trust targets and disseminate all appropriate information to all members of the nursing team

Risk Management, Quality Assurance and Monitoring
- Co-ordinate and promote clinical governance and risk management processes within the Neonatal Service.
- Support staff in the timely reporting of all neonatal clinical incidents.
- Oversee and monitor the neonatal incidents reported through the Trust’s incident reporting system i.e., DATIX
- Collate incident statistics and monitor trends from adverse incidents.
- Communicate relevant findings to promote an environment which learns from incident reporting.
- Work with the neonatal education team to support education and training in response to incidents.
- Participate in the seamless investigation of all serious untoward incidents as instructed by the Neonatal Matron &/or the Trust’s Governance and Risk team.
- Work in partnership with the Neonatal Matron in reporting incidents to other agencies where appropriate via the Trust’s Governance and Risk Management Lead.
- Contribute to the maintenance and updating of the Neonatal Service Risk Register.
- Develop clinical policies, SOP’s (standard operating procedure) and guidelines to support risk management and clinical effectiveness and ensure archiving of all old policies.
- Participate in relevant clinical audits and risk assessments.
- Promote the Duty of Candour
- Oversee national and local service evaluation and reviews and audits.
- To oversee the completion of agreed action plans from both national and local strategies, benchmarking standards and clinical audits.
- To participate in the