Job summary
- Main area
- admin
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 275-2404IGL
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/05/2024
Employer heading
Integrated Governance Lead
Band 7
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job overview
Integrated Governance Lead
Division: Corporate
Band: 7
Salary: £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum
Interview date: Tuesday 21st May
We are recruiting for an Integrated Governance Lead who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
Reporting to the Integrated Governance Manager, this post forms part of the Integrated Governance & Quality Team to support the delivery of the Trust’s Quality Strategy and vision to ensure ‘Best of care by the best of people’ through the delivery of safe, effective and high quality services, that ensure the people who use our services, their families, carers and visitors receive a positive experience.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
We offer many flexible and part-time working opportunities and all of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme. We value diversity and promote equality of opportunity.
The Trust is taking take positive action to ensure that we can recruit and retain people from under-represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Integrated Governance
Implement the use of standardised templates for the management of committees, sub committees and groups, such as agendas, terms of reference, minutes and action logs supporting corporate leads and division/care groups in their application.
Support the Integrated Governance Manager in the development of standardised reporting, including the development of the Integrated Quality & Performance Report (IQPR) in conjunction with Business Intelligence to ensure it meets the contractual schedule requirements.
Ensure Terms of Reference are reviewed within the required timeframes, and committees, sub committees and groups have effective and up to date cycles of business / programmes of work.
Support the Integrated Governance Manager in measuring and reporting the effectiveness of committees, sub committees and groups.
Support the wider integrated governance and quality team, divisional directors of nursing and corporate leads in the delivery of effective systems and processes through:
corporate and divisional/care group level reporting on all aspects of integrated governance and quality using influence to support the removal of backlogs, delays and blockages
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or higher, or relevant experience in the field of quality and risk management
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Risk management experience desirable
- Previous Experience within the NHS is desirable
- Management / Leadership qualification and/or Quality Improvement Qualification is desirable
- Project management qualification or relevant experience is desirable
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of statutory and regulatory requirements, national frameworks, constitutional requirements and best practice for integrated governance and quality in the NHS
- Understanding of Equality and Diversity issues
- In-depth and significant knowledge and experience of integrated governance, risk and policy management
- A comprehensive understanding of own development and others training needs
- Knowledge of risk management processes
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the healthcare environment in both acute and community settings is desirable
- Experience of delivering training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience and an understanding of integrated governance, risk and policy management
- Line management experience.
- Motivated to improve the quality and governance of healthcare
- Team player and able to work autonomously
- Experience of managing resources across multiple teams and specialties
- Broad experience of using information derived from large and complex data sets
Desirable criteria
- Making presentations to colleagues, in a training capacity
- Experience of working in the NHS or equivalent health care setting
- Capacity to work with colleagues across all disciplines and at every level within the organisation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Furlong
- Job title
- Head of Quality & Safety
- Email address
- [email protected]
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