Clinical Expert – Clinical Effectiveness and Outcomes

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Full time
Location: Grimsby
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Job offered by: NHS
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Clinical Expert - Clinical Effectiveness and Outcomes

Healthcare Management Trust – St Hugh’s Hospital

HMT are currently seeking an experienced

Clinical Effectiveness and Outcomes

Lead to manage and drive HMT's Clinical Effectiveness function within a newly developed

Clinical Effectiveness Framework . Reporting to the Executive Director of Clinical and Acute Care, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring evidence-based clinical practice by leading on clinical audits, NICE guidelines, patient and resident outcome measures, and benchmarking. In this role, you will promote a culture of

continuous quality improvement , providing expert support and guidance to clinical leaders and teams across the organization. You will facilitate the development of clinical improvement plans, contribute to clinical risk management reporting, and work closely with key stakeholders to ensure quality priorities and assurance mechanisms are delivered to the highest standard. The role has the opportunity to work remotely with travel to sites expected as required. Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities: The Clinical Effectiveness and Outcomes Lead will be operationally report to the Executive Director of Clinical and Acute Care and will manage the HMT wide Clinical Effectiveness function, incorporated within a new Clinical Effectiveness Framework. This role will lead on all aspects of Clinical Audit, NICE Guidelines and other clinical and quality guidelines and standards, Patient/Resident Outcome measures and benchmarking ensuring clinical practice is evidence-based whilst promoting, via positive role modelling, a continuous quality improvement culture. This post will facilitate the services to identify and complete clinical improvement plans based on audit data, be involved in clinical risk management reporting, and work closely with the Head of Patient Safety and Improvement as required. The post holder will work across the organization, providing support, advice and guidance to the Heads of Clinical Service, Care Home Managers, and clinical teams on delivery of clinical audits, quality priorities and quality assurance mechanisms. Job responsibilities

Provide support and expert advice to the HMT-wide services/sites by developing and implementing a Clinical Effectiveness Framework. Provide specialist advice and guidance to site leadership teams in relation to the Annual Clinical Audit Programme and local audits, NICE guidance and Quality Standards, Outcome measures and benchmarking, general compliance with agreed standards in practice, using data review, quality reporting and quality improvement methodology. Develop, implement and manage policy development for policies in own area of responsibility (NICE guidelines, Clinical Audit Policy, Measuring Outcomes & Benchmarking) and wider quality, safety or governance areas. Lead responsibility for HMT's Annual Clinical Audit programme. Monitor the implementation of recommendations and audit plans and NICE standards escalating non-compliance or problem areas through the HMT governance structure. Instigate audits or reviews where quality falls short of the required level, escalating key risks or issues in a timely manner. Oversee the process for compliance with NICE guidance and other evidence-based practice, implementing monitoring systems for this and providing reports to corporate meetings. Lead responsibility for mapping, collecting and responding to agreed outcome measures used across HMT to support the Quality Improvement Plan. Ensure that staff are supported in their improvement journeys; their input is valued and incorporated into improvement work. Provide training for staff in clinical audit design and methodology, use of policy and process to support their improvements in practice. Develop and recruit local site level Clinical Audit champions to assist in the implementation of the Clinical Effectiveness Framework. Work closely with the Head of Patient Safety and Improvement supporting effective clinical risk management across the sites and appropriate risk reduction plans and escalation. Lead and support teams across the organization to maintain a culture of continuous quality improvement, using quality improvement methodologies to empower staff to improve quality and patient safety across the organization. Provide a high-quality data analysis and report writing function to support key organizational committees, such as the Quality Group, Clinical Governance Committee and Governance Committee. Input into the HMT Annual Report. Play a key role in steering the strategic direction for Clinical Effectiveness within HMT based upon the National Strategies and emerging best practice evidence. Person Specification

Experience

Experience of working within health and/or social care (minimum of 5 years). Knowledge and experience of quality improvement methodology. Analysing, interpreting, comparing and presenting data and reports to meet target audiences. Able to monitor the recommendations and action plans in relation to CQC/HIW requirements and External Agency Visits. Experience of day-to-day working in a busy work environment including setting own priorities, coordinating activities with others and changing priorities as the need arises. Ability to use advanced IT packages and manipulate data. Experience of quality, audit and governance working in a complex organization. Producing papers for Committees/Board. Experience of engagement and consultation practices (including undertaking surveys). Effective interpersonal and communication skills, including patients, residents, relatives and staff groups at all levels of the organization. Qualifications

Educated to Degree (ideally in health or social care) or working towards. Qualification or working towards in Clinical Audit/Assurance/Governance. Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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