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Job summary

Main area
Quality Governance
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On site at Aintree Hospital)
Job ref
287-ASUR-65-24
Employer
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Aintree Hospital
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£70,417 - £81,138 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

Employer heading

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Assistant Director of Governance - Aintree

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Job overview

Aintree Hospital are seeking a highly experienced governance professional to work in collaboration with the Hospital Leadership Team. Educated to Masters level or equivalent in a relevant discipline,

The successful candidate would be expected to provide highly visible leadership and direction to ensure that there are effective Quality Governance systems in place across a large, complex Hospital site.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will ensure that the Hospital complies with statutory, regulatory,  contractual, and best practice requirements in relation to governance and quality. They will work alongside the Hospital Leadership Team to ensure that there are effective assurance monitoring processes.

The postholder will report into the Hospital Director of Nursing, with professional support from the Trust Deputy Director of Quality Governance, strengthening the maturity of the Hospital's governance systems and risk escalation processes from point of care to Hospital Management Board.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  •  Responsible for the establishment and on-going development of the 
    Hospital’s assurance framework, working with the Hospital Leadership Team in ensuring the principal risks  to the delivery of the Hospital’s objectives are identified and controlled.
  • Ensure the effective functioning of the Hospitals groups including 
    appropriate information flows to the Hospital Management Board and  onwards to the Trust Assurance & Risk Committee.
  • To be an active member of the Hospital’s assurance groups, including 
    Hospital Management Board.
  • Responsible for the implementation of a quality governance system that ensures governance is multi-disciplinary, locally owned and provides  assurance that the Hospital Quality Governance Framework is safe and effective.
  • Ensure the Hospital governance systems and processes align to national requirements and best practice.
  • Advise/brief the Hospital Leadership Team and Hospital assurance 
    groups on changes in legislation/national policy in relation to the 
    governance agenda and make recommendations to ensure compliance.
  • Appraise national documents and present conclusions and 
    recommendations to the Hospital Management Board regarding 
    implications for the Hospital.
  • Ensure that governance and assurance systems monitor compliance with statutory, regulatory and best practice requirements and that assurance mechanisms are in place via corporate and divisional governance structures.
  • Provide highly specialist advice, support and guidance to managers and 
    clinicians in relation to the Trust’s governance systems and processes.
  • Support the Trust Director of Quality Governance and Associate Director of Legal Services in providing assurance to Care Quality Commission, NHS England/Improvement and Liverpool Place in relation to serious incidents, coronial outcomes, complaints and staff and user concerns.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to masters level or equivalent
  • Significant experience in a quality governance in a health care setting.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development to support the delivery of a senior role in quality governance
Desirable criteria
  • Graduate qualification in a healthcare related field

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of managing governance at a senior level in a large, complex healthcare Organisation; including evidence of strategic development and significant senior management experience.
  • Proven track record of leadership, managing redesign and organisational change within and across a large and complex organisation.
  • Proven experience of managing staff from a range of professional backgrounds within an Acute NHS environment and in developing clinical teams.
  • Significant experience in managing quality governance including incidents and complaints management, clinical effectiveness and compliance.
  • Experience of integrated governance systems across quality governance boundaries
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of Quality Improvement in Healthcare.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of current NHS policy and ability to develop strategies and policies and to implement them in practice.
  • Significant knowledge of statutory, regulatory requirements within governance in the NHS

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Gregory Hope
Job title
Deputy Director of Quality Governance
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 529 5860
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