Clinical Effectiveness Facilitator; Clinical Audit and NCEPOD

• Assist with the development and delivery of the Trustwide clinical audit programme, ensuring that audits cover national and Trust priorities.
• Support the development and implementation of Trust wide clinical audit policies across the Trust to underpin the delivery of the Quality Strategy.
• Provide support and education to healthcare professionals in the development of clinical audit project methodologies and provide advice on all aspects of clinical audit project design, data collection methods, analytical support, and interpretation of audit results.
• Develop an understanding of clinical audit, evidence based healthcare and clinical effectiveness and become experienced in clinical audit methodology and facilitation.
• Develop methodologically rigorous clinical audit programmes within relevant specialties in collaboration with Clinical Leads, relevant committees, and management.
• Liaise and negotiate with clinical staff, at all levels, to agree audit project methodologies, including project design, data collection methods and analytical support.
• Produce reports pertaining to clinical audit activity undertaken and ensure the dissemination of reports is undertaken effectively and subsequent action plans are developed and implemented to improve inefficiencies in healthcare and services provided.
• Assist healthcare professionals in the facilitation of any changes required as a direct result of clinical audit activity.
• Support both national and local clinical audit activity across the Trust through the collection, collation, and presentation of data, from a variety of sources.
• Participate in Trust wide audit projects and co-operate and collaborate with other team members across all areas of work when necessary.
• Ensure audit activity undertaken within specialties is of a high standard, meets departmental requirements and is undertaken in line with the Trust Clinical Audit Policy.
• Adhere to and maintain Information Governance, GDPR requirements and Caldicott Principles in all local and national clinical audit work and comply with the approval process for submitting data to external organisations as set out in Trust policies.
• Support specific audit projects approved by the Clinical Effectiveness Co-ordinator including National Confidential Enquiries into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) studies and the National Cardiac Arrest Audit (NCAA).
• Actively participate, support, and contribute to the Clinical Audit Training Programmes across the Trust.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

• Degree or equivalent working experience.

• Evidence of formal IT training.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows and MS Office applications e.g., Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook.
• Experience of producing formal written reports.
• Experience of managing multiple projects / assignments.
• Experience of producing and providing oral presentations.
• Experience of undertaking data analysis.

• Previous NHS experience.
• Experience of training others.
• Experience of developing / monitoring action plans.
• Experience of undertaking / facilitating the undertaking of clinical audit.
• Experience of developing clinical guidelines.

• An understanding of recent changes in the NHS, particularly in areas associated with quality improvement.
• Knowledge of information governance within the NHS.
• An understanding of the concept of quality evaluation and other quality initiatives in the NHS

• Knowledge of National Clinical Guidelines e.g., NICE, Royal Colleges.
• Knowledge of the development of clinical guidelines.
• Understanding of the national…