Clinical Governance and Patient Safety Lead

Working as a member of the clinical leadership, ensuring compliance with the policies,

procedures and clinical standards of Weldmar Hospicecare.

The Clinical Governance and Patient Safety Lead will be the professional lead for clinical

governance and patient safety across all clinical services. They will oversee the clinical audit

schedule and ensure learning from all patient safety events is embedded into practice.

To assist the Director of Clinical Services in meeting Care Quality Commission (CQC)

requirements, maintaining high-quality specialist palliative care for patients and those

important to them.

To collaborate with service leads in the investigation of complaints, incidents and patient

safety events reported via the Vantage incident reporting system and ensuring that lessons

learnt, changes implemented and shared across clinical services.

To undertake the role of Deputy Caldicott Guardian, responding to subject access requests

and breaches of confidentiality if required.

Be an active member of the Clinical Leadership Team and Clinical Leadership Group.

Support the Clinical Leads of the Inpatient Unit and Specialist Hospice at Home

service, providing advice, guidance and promoting multidisciplinary working

relationships across all clinical teams.

Develop strong professional links with the South West Hospices Quality Leads and

other relevant external network, attending the meetings and contributing to the

discussions on behalf of Weldmar

Provide clinical expertise in the interpretation of quality, safety, audit and patient

experience data to identify priorities for improvement.

Translate governance requirements, regulatory standards and patient safety

objectives into effective governance frameworks and quality improvement initiatives.

Using clinical expertise and insights work with Clinical Assurance & Analytics

Manager to support the development of governance reports, dashboards and evidence required for Clinical Governance Committees, the Board, commissioners

and regulatory inspections.

Monitor quality and safety performance, identifying emerging risks, trends and areas

of best practice.

Ensure data and intelligence are used proactively to improve patient outcomes,

reduce risk and support continuous improvement.

Ensure that all policies relating to safe clinical practice and care remain current,

compliant and consistently implemented. Take appropriate action when actual or

potential risks to quality and patient safety are identified.

Present governance and risk reports at the Clinical Governance Committee and other

forums, deputising for the Director of Clinical Services as required.

Attend the Clinical Leadership Group, Medicines Management group and the Health

& Safety group meetings.

Provide service-related information as required, to the senior management team, the

Board or external agencies as directed by the Director of Clinical Services.

Ensure service-related information and provision of accurate clinical data from the

relevant clinical systems, such as SystmOne and Vantage.

Manage own time and work effectively to meet objectives and requirements of the role.

Be a skilled, enthusiastic change agent, implementing any new approaches to care.

Motivate others to work differently and lead by example, demonstrating a willingness

and appetite for innovation and change.

Work across professional boundaries using creative reasoning and problem-solving

Extend the use of IPOS outcome measurement tool across all clinical services and

ensure the data gathered is used effectively.

Utilise patient and public experience feedback to drive innovation and change.

Ability to lead projects, including project planning and budget management.

Work collaboratively with the Learning & Development team to identify and meet

education and development needs both within Weldmar and externally.

As an expert practitioner and role model, use every opportunity to coach, mentor,

and promote excellence in local palliative care practice.

Identify and lead the delivery of relevant clinical audit, to include developing,

implementing and evaluating plans for improvement in all Weldmar clinical services.

Manage the central register for all clinical audits with the assistance of the Clinical

Evidence participation in Continuous Professional Development

Support and contribute to quantitative and qualitative data collection in order to provide

evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality.

To write up and supply reviews and reports for external agencies as required.

Establish and maintain excellent effective working relationships between the members

of the clinical leads team, supporting each lead with the area of clinical governance

and patient safety.

Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team and senior colleagues internally

across all clinical areas to support and enable effective cross department working and

provision of best practice.

Weldmar Hospicecare provides specialist care for

adults in Dorset who have a life limiting illness, and support for their loved

ones. We are dedicated to fostering a culture of equality, diversity, and

inclusion across all aspects of our organisation.

We are a small charity and Unfortunately can not offer sponsorship to work in the UK. Please do not apply if you require Right to Work Sponsorship.

Qualifications

Desirable: - An appropriate postgraduate qualification in specialist palliative, community care or; - end of life care

Experience

Desirable: - Experience of overseeing CQC inspections and ensuring full compliance with standards and KLOEs.

Other Requirements

Skills and Abilities