Job summary
- Main area
- Governance
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-FR0598
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trevor Gibbens Unit, Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Governance Officer
Band 5
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).
We are looking to recruit a Governance Officer to join our team based at the Trevor Gibbens Unit, Maidstone.
Supporting the Governance Lead to develop and implement quality governance processes within the Directorate to ensure that there is a comprehensive framework to continuously monitor and improve the quality of care provided.
You will ensure that there are Directorate systems fit for purpose in place to provide leadership in relation to the facilitation and management of incident reporting, complaints and incident management under the PSIRF framework and provide project support and facilitation to a wide range of quality improvement projects, as well as provide comprehensive support to the Directorate wide meeting as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
Working under the direction of the Governance Lead to ensure that the Directorate has a comprehensive framework to continuously monitor and improve the quality of care provided.
Provide support to the development and review of current quality data metrics and implementation of a revised strategy, which allows analysis and the holding of a strategic overview, with mechanisms in place for understanding the detail at pace.
Be responsible for maintaining and ensuring that there are fit for purpose systems to ensure that there is facilitation and management of incident reporting, complaints and incidents, ensuring that digital solutions are maximised. They will ensure that there is an evidenced system for daily oversight of all incidents that are submitted to the Directorate.
Provide leadership in disseminating and working with teams to ensure that there is evidence of lessons learnt from incidents, complaints and feedback embedded within future practice.
Be responsible for gathering CQC evidence and identifying gaps in a timely fashion and provide support to teams as required.
Work closely with central support services, including patient safety, to ensure that lines of communication are clear and to prevent duplication.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
essential
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Experience of clinical audit and/or related quality improvement work.
- Experience of constructing and manage databases/spreadsheets for projects. Good analytical skills and able to justify choice of methodology and summarise and interpret results.
- Knowledge of structures, concepts and processes of Clinical Governance.
- High levels of organisational skills to schedule multiple projects simultaneously and prioritise own workload. deadlines and Directorate requirements.
desirable
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of on-going professional development.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Kate Bispham
- Job title
- Governance lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 079 89 625 936
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