Quality Governance Business Partner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to join the Surgical Division’s Governance Team at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The Division is looking to recruit an experienced, motivated and independently minded Business Partner - Quality Governance to support the Divisional Quality and Safety Lead in the delivery of governance across all aspects of patient safety, risk management, audit and effectiveness and regulatory compliance. The post holder will work closely with the Divisional Quality and Safety Lead, promoting and facilitating quality governance within the Division. Applicants should have a good understanding and knowledge of the Governance agenda across the NHS. Reporting to the Divisional Quality and Safety Lead, 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. All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as "competent and caring staff" by our patients. Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents. We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral's only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint. We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m. The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales. Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Quality Governance Business Partner position available at WUTH. Patient Safety Lead the effective implementation of the Trust’s incident management and patient safety incident policies across division of responsibility. Responsibility to escalate aspects of noncompliance with policy to divisional leadership. Support staff in aligned services to report all new incidents and assign an investigator in a timely manner. Support accurate scoring of risks and incidents and planning suitable actions to address reoccurring issues. Provide expert advice and challenge to ensure that incidents are appropriately investigated and that areas for improvement are identified; with robust action plans in place to reduce the likelihood of recurrence Support patient safety investigations through all learning processes agreed by the Senior Business Partner. Support Divisional staff to undertake immediate case reviews of patient safety incidents leading to (or potentially leading to) significant harm or significant learning, providing advice and solving problems or queries, and chasing progress to ensure they are ready for presentation at the Directorate and Divisional quality meetings. Support the collation of evidence that complete action plans. Support the implementation of trust governance processes within the directorate and division. Plan, deliver and facilitate improvement events and opportunities for experiential learning Risk To ensure high quality risk management is embedded, enhanced and maintained and promote learning and development of all staff in risk processes and Trust risk policies - ensuring that a positive, open and supportive risk management culture is adopted and embedded throughout the Division. To support implementation of divisional risk management systems and processes, forward planning, promoting debate and implementing effective reporting and monitoring systems. To be a source of expert risk knowledge and advice for Divisional and directorate leaders To work with the Senior Business Partner to drive forward the quality governance agenda across the division. Support development of regular Divisional Risk Management Reports for the Trust Risk Management Committee. To compile reports as required by the Senior Business Partner. To ensure that processes for risk identification and escalation are working effectively. To systematically analyse and review risk performance indicators including several complex components such as complaints, incident report forms, claims and litigation - ensuring that attention is immediately paid to high risk areas, and that learning is disseminated as appropriate. Risk registers To support the continual improvement and management of the Divisional risk registers. To review the directorate risk registers to look at trust trends and concerns raised across the Divi