Are you passionate about patient safety, clinical governance, clinical effectiveness, and risk management? We are delighted to advertise a secondment opportunity within the corporate governance team for the role of
Governance & Risk Officer.
In this role, you will facilitate and support work carried out by the corporate governance team to ensure assurance can be provided for all areas of clinical governance and risk management.
This post would ideally suit a dynamic, experienced professional who has a passion for patient safety and quality of care. You must be able to use your own initiative and have excellent organisational skills.
You should be enthusiastic, proactive, and able to communicate effectively.
In particular, we require you to be a team player, work to deadlines and at pace, demonstrate excellent skills in IT, and have an understanding of databases and action logs that will facilitate the efficient monitoring of local agendas.
If you are interested in this post and consider yourself to have the key skills and attitudes we are looking for, then we would love to hear from you.
The purpose of this post is to provide a focus on the administration of the Incident & Risk Management system (Datix); administration and analysis of CQC Enquiries, External Accreditation/Peer Review Visits, CQC Visits, and other key governance data to support the development of policies and processes which impact across the organisation. This will help support the creation and maintenance of an effective organisation-wide approach.
You will deliver Datix training as appropriate to support the process for appropriate investigation, management, and closure of incidents. You will also support the Risk Management Strategy and Risk Maturity Programme across the Trust as necessary.
You will ensure that LTH governance systems are developed in line with Trust priorities, and that appropriate and accurate evidence can be retrieved from the systems and provided to managers in a timely and efficient manner. You will also maintain effective systems for the provision of information on governance, risk management, and legal activities to provide assurance on the delivery of governance.
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities to learn new skills. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katy Clay Job title: Head of Risk Management and Datix systems Email address:
[email protected]
