Deputy Governance & Quality Manager

Band 7

37.5 hours

Fixed term - 12 months

You will support the Risk & Quality Manager in leading the promotion and facilitation of the development of effective governance, risk management, assurance and compliance management across the Division of Medicine & Urgent Care.

You will be specifically responsible for the oversight and management of clinical governance management for the Urgent Care, delegated from the Governance & Quality Manager.

You will support the Governance & Quality Manager in leading the provision and maintenance of the direct support to the whole Division with the co-ordination, implementation and delivery of the Divisional and Corporate governance agendas with a focus on patient safety.

• Responsible for the clinical governance management for Urgent Care (Emergency Medicine and Acute and Frailty). This will include the delegated responsibility from the Governance & Quality Manager for the urgent care risk register, the patient safety incident investigation processes within urgent care, meeting papers production and ownership of escalation as required to the Divisional triumvirate and / or the Deputy Director of Quality Governance. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the Governance & Quality Manager is fully aware of urgent care’s governance.
• Responsible for the monitoring of the Datix incident reporting system, approving incident reports and initiating / undertaking investigations as and where necessary and to the level required by the severity of the incident, escalating to the Governance & Quality Manager as required.
• Responsible for leading patient safety incident investigations. This will entail highlighting cases for investigation, mini-initial analysis reports (rapid reviews), writing timelines, collating staff statements and conducting interviews and observation exercises as required and writing patient safety incident investigation reports. The investigation process could also include attending H.M. Coroner’s court to give evidence at an inquest into a patient’s death.