Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Effectiveness Officer
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 164-7152734-A
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- QMC
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Clinical Effectiveness Officer
Band 5
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Maternity Quality, Risk and Safety team as a Clinical Effectiveness Officer, supporting the maternity services in Nottingham to improve standards of care.
NUH maternity services care for approximately 7000 women and babies per year across two sites, with a level 3 neonatal unit and a large community midwifery service. As a large trust, we have a reputation for excellence in teaching and research with affiliations with University of Nottingham and University of Derby.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about audit and supporting quality and improvement in practice.
The successful candidate will be working as part of a dynamic and responsive team across the maternity service.
Main duties of the job
Support and oversee audit activity within Maternity services as directed by the Clinical Effectiveness lead.
Support with action planning and outcomes of clinical audit and quality improvement projects ensuring that clinicians are supported and the directorate has comprehensive evidence of improvements that are being achieved as a result of clinical audit.
Provide advice and support for individual clinical audit projects, including support for data collection and analysis.
Provide regular reports on the improvements made as a result of national clinical audits, including analysis on trends and themes.
Support the development, endorsement and approval of policies and guidelines within the maternity services as directed by the Clinical Effectiveness leads.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please see job description and person specification included within this vacancy.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Ability to undertake statistical analysis
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of Clinical Audit Process
- Knowledge and experience of Data capture techniques
- Understanding of NICE guidance
Communication and Selationship Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Good presentation and training skills
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
- Amber Clarkin
- Job title
- Quality, Risk and Safety Matron for Maternity
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07812278142
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