Clinical Audit & NICE Guidance Manager

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

12/6/2024

Are you looking for a new challenge where you can make a difference to how to we deliver mental health services?

We're searching for a Clinical Audit and NICE Manager to join our thriving team at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week) based at our Trust HQ in Littlemore, Oxford. We welcome great talent from all backgrounds and provide a flexible work environment and hybrid working options focused on positivity, progress and continuous improvement.

The role is to act as the corporate clinical audit specialist, contributing to the effective integration of quality improvement and clinical audit working alongside divisional leads. You'll have overall management of the clinical audit and effectiveness functions as well as lead, support and manage the Clinical Audit Team.

You'll work closely with governance leads and/or clinical teams to actively support and monitor the progress of audit programmes, attend any relevant meetings, or forums and provide opportunities for clinical audit training as required.

If you have a strong background in QI methodology, clinical audit and NICE guidance then we'd love to hear from you!

• Plan audit projects, coordinate clinical involvement, liaising with colleagues at all levels to encourage collaboration, avoid duplication and ensure the best use of resources. This includes monitoring the overall workload of the department to ensure effective time management and priority of workload.
• Work in close partnership with quality improvement and clinical audit leads across the Trust providing expertise and guidance to develop evidence-based standards for audit which are clear unambiguous and, measurable.
• Take project proposals to relevant governance management groups for ratification and ongoing status reports of audit activity within the directorate.
• Support the Oxford Healthcare Improvement Manager by representing the department at other internal and external meetings where required.
• Design audit/QI approaches, analysis & interpretation of data which can be contradictory and complex in nature, requiring a high level of interpretation skills.
• Ensure the timely production of reports within the requested deadlines and ensure that audit findings are acted upon and that improvements in patient care are captured, disseminated, and reported through the reporting structures.
• Ensure learning from clinical effectiveness activity is embedded and leads to lasting change and improvement.
  
  

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount
• Pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ashley Harvey Job title: Oxfordshire Healthcare Improvement Manager Email address: Ashley.Harvey@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07815951878

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.