Clinical Auditor

Job Title:
Clinical Auditor, ADHD service

Salary: up to £68,000 per annum (HCAS inclusive)

Hours:
Full time – 3 days/ week for Auditing function/ 2 days per week clinical

Responsible to:
Head of Pharmacy and Clinical Services

Key Relationships:
Head of Service Delivery, ADHD Service Manager, ADHD Consultant Lead, Head of Peoples Team, Head of Quality Assurance, Director of Operations, ADHD Assessors and Titrators, ICB contract leads etc.

Healthcare Central London is the GP Federation covering the Central London borough area. The organisation supports 27 General Practices and 4 Primary Care Networks (PCNs). We operate a number of NHS contracts and have now been successfully awarded NHS contracts to deliver specialist Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) services.

Our vision is to be recognised as a leading GP provider network, run by clinicians for the benefit of our local population. We will achieve this by working with patients and partners to ensure to ensure high quality services are delivered to patients we are commissioned to care for.

Our approach is to deliver exceptional assistance to our General Practice members and to operate our NHS contracts in a manner that supports our Practices and their patients by providing services economically, locally, promptly, and in a familiar environment.

The Clinical Auditor, ADHD service will support clinical governance processes by delivering reviews to measure and improve the quality and effectiveness of the ADHD service.

The Clinical Auditor will be responsible for undertaking clinical audit and compliance work to provide assurance on the appropriateness of patient management (in line with appropriate local and national guidelines, best practice and team resource) and assess patient outcomes.

An in-depth understanding of ADHD and its management are crucial to successful delivery of this role and on-going continuous professional development in the field will be expected. Delivery of clinical sessions will be required.

• Improve patient care through clinical audit by designing and setting up projects, collecting and analysing data, writing reports and formulating recommendations for changes to practice
• Promote an evidence based culture to the clinical practice in the ADHD service
• Participate in the ADHD multi-disciplinary team meetings
• Support the Lead Consultant, ADHD service and Head of Pharmacy and Clinical Services with quality assurance and improvement
• Support data collection for compliance assurance required by Integrated Care Boards or their appointed representatives
• Co-ordinate and manage clinical audit projects which includes setting up a project timetable that is achievable and meets the projects methodology.
• Plan data collection, inputting, analysis and report writing so that reports are delivered according to the required timescales.
• Design data collection tools for each project in collaboration with the HCL Business Intelligence team
• Liaise with the internal and external agencies to receive relevant clinical, performance and operational information.
• Review, interpret and extract information from a variety of sources including recordings of patient consultations where available, patient electronic records, and other sources as required in order to collect data.
• Set-up spreadsheets and accurately input data for each audit project
• Conduct literature searches and obtain relevant references to ensure up to date practice in promoted
• Set up project advisory/steering groups, incorporating members from multidisciplinary backgrounds and user representatives, as appropriate to tackle specific work-streams as directed by the Consultant Lead of ADHD/ Head of Pharmacy and Clinical Services
• To utilise Systm One to conduct consultation and prescribing audits
• Undertake explorative data analysis, using qualitative and quantitative statistical analysis techniques.
• Interpret findings to develop recommendations for changes to clinical practice.
• Report progress and present findings to relevant committees.
• Produce written reports using a scientific reporting format.
• Liaise with relevant committees and departments throughout…