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South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
About
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is part of the National Health Service (NHS). We respond to 999 calls from the public, urgent calls from healthcare professionals and provide NHS 111 services across the region.
As part of the NHS we are regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The CQC is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. It ensures that health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate high quality care and encourages care services to improve.
You can find our latest report here South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust - Overview - Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk) and previous reports on the CQC Website.
We have a vision to support our staff and provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities.
Our 4,000+ staff provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire.
Our two main functions:
- Accident and emergency service to respond to 999 calls
- NHS 111 service for when medical help is needed fast, but it's not an emergency
We currently have a number of available roles and we would love for you to join our service.
Health Informatics Lead (East)
Closed for applications on: 7-May-2024 08:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 7-May-2024 08:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Paddock Wood
- Address
- Eldon Way,
- Town
- Paddock Wood
- Postcode
- TN12 6BE
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job share
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £28,407 - £35,581 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Performance and Information
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.
Job overview
The Trust has a responsibility to measure and continuously improve the quality of care that we provide. The Health Informatics Department ensures that all information collected from Patient Care Records is accurate, detailed and of high quality. We conduct documentation and clinical audits to celebrate high compliancy and highlight areas that may require improvement. We then co-ordinate those improvement actions and reaudit. We also conduct all the national auditing and feedback to our operational colleagues.
As the Clinical Informatics Lead (East), you will use your clinical experience to inform audits and drive improvements in clinical care. You will be part of a diverse team in the health informatics department including other clinicians, analysts and administrators. You will partner closely with the Clinical Informatics Lead (West) to ensure that audits are clinically focussed, and improvements are proportionate and realistic in an operational environment. This is an outward facing role and your time will be split between conducting local/national audits, representing audit and driving improvements in partnership with Operational Unit management, as such, there will be a need to travel across the Trust.
This is a new role, and you will have the opportunity to shape it, providing much needed clinical expertise to the department. This role is perfect for a clinician looking to step away from frontline clinical duties whilst still using their clinical expertise and having an impact on patient care.
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The role requires a combination of clinical auditing and working in partnership with OU management teams, therefore developing strong working relationships with frontline clinical staff, managerial, operational, senior operational colleagues and other area specialists in the Trust is key.
The post-holder will have an allocation of OUs, for which they will be the first point of contact for all clinical audit and health informatics activities
Attend and represent clinical audit in various internal meetings across the Trust
Support clinicians on an alternative duties secondment in the department.
Deliver and develop clinical audit training as required.
Undertake all aspects of the clinical audit cycle as part of a team of analysts and clinicians, supported by the Health Informatics Manager(s), to ensure delivery and prioritisation of the Annual Clinical Audit Programme.
Produce clinical audit reports from start to finish against agreed timescales and to a high standard, including audit scoping, standard setting, data attainment from patent clinical records, entry, analysis, data presentation, report writing, setting recommendations, actions and reaudit.
Support the Trusts engagement with the national clinical audit programme, including attaining and submitting the data to NHS England and other national and local submission authorities within mandated deadlines, including as examples the Trusts Integrated Quality Report, OU dashboards, research/HQUIP organisations (Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project/Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme), escalating early any anticipated delays and performance concerns.
Will be an action owner of local audit actions. This will involve risk rating audit compliance and devising (in partnership with other departments) audit actions that are proportionate to the risk and using the SMART framework for recommendations.
Working for our organisation
- Option to join NHS pension scheme
- A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service.
- Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
- Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
- Access to occupational health and counselling services.
- Award winning wellbeing hub
- Back up buddy App
- Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Clinical Audit and Improvement team are responsible for the collection of data from clinical records and the use of this data to produce reports that drive improvements in the quality of care provided by the Trust. We also share the knowledge and skills required for audit and improvement with colleagues across the Trust. You will work as part of this team to ensure that audit continues to contribute to the Trust's focus on continuous improvement.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details.
Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.
Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination.
Going forward, for patient facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front line staff.
In line with this recommendation, if you are successful in your application for a front line post, we will seek information from you in relation to your vaccine status, including exemption status, as applicable.
Please note, all positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role. The level of check will be outlined in the conditional offer letter sent to successful applicants.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to declare any unspent/unfiltered convictions. If you are shortlisted you will then be sent a self declaration form, which must be completed prior to attending interview. for any queries relating to declarations, please contact the Recruitment Advisor listed on the vacancy.
The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.
We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups.
The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people - including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes - including the interview - are fair and equitable. We are a committed Disability Confident Employer and offer on-going support, should you be successful, with any adjustments you may need when performing your role.
When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.
Please note that under our Trust policies, we're unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old.
The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you’re applying for includes work related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this.
If you have previously applied for this role and were deemed not appointable at any stage of the recruitment process, you cannot normally apply for the same or similar role for a minimum of six months from the date of application. This is to allow time for the candidate to receive feedback and undergo the appropriate development.
Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact [email protected] stating the vacancy reference number and we will be happy to provide this.
When completing the reference section, please include details to cover the last three years’ history.
Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.
Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly.
Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. For this reason we recommend completing your application as early as possible.
If you are a current SECAmb employee and applying for a substantive position, if successful you will move to the terms and conditions associated with the post. Any unsocial hours payments will be paid under the Section 2 agreement of agenda for change. If you are currently paid under Annex 5 and this post is the same banding as your current role, you can request to remain on Annex 5, or move to Section 2.
Section 2 unsocial hours will automatically be paid via your monthly timesheet. More information regarding section 2 can be found in the Agenda for Change handbook and on the our dedicated Section 2 page on The Zone .
If you are a current SECAmb employee and applying for a Secondment/Acting Up position, this would not be classed as a permanent change to your terms and conditions so if your application is successful, your current unsocial hours arrangements will not change for the duration of the secondment/acting up period.
Follow our recruitment on Twitter @SECAmbRecruit and check out our Facebook page - SECAmb NHS Recruitment. You can also find us on Linkedin under South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A minimum of three GCSE’s or ‘O’ Level qualification, Grade C and above or the equivalent qualification including GNVQ, NVQ level 2 or equivalent experience.
- Successful completion of a recognised ambulance/ health care training programme such as AAP, ECSW, Ambulance Technician, registered nurse or Paramedic registration.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Audit/ service improvement training
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Detailed working knowledge of the ambulance operational environment.
- In depth knowledge of electronic and paper patient care records.
Desirable criteria
- Technical knowledge of Microsoft Excel, GRS, data presentation and admin systems.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent understanding of the ambulance service environment through relevant experience in a patient-facing role.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in making effective decisions in a high pressured environment.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to present information logically and concisely both verbally and in writing, including the ability to write reports with clarity to ensure that complex messages are put across effectively
- Ability to work within a new and developing role and take on new responsibilities, where there are opportunities for development and progression, which may be challenging due to uncertainties.
- ighly competent in the assessment and audit of patient care records and presentation of quantitative and qualitative information.
- Competent in the use of Trust information systems in order to retrieve and document complex information.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Positive approach to work and continuous improvement of processes.
- Able to maintain frequent and prolonged periods of concentration and attention to detail.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between sites for work purposes.
- Able to undertake further training/development as necessary.
- A commitment to quality & personal excellence in all areas of work
Desirable criteria
- Ability to use reflective practice and participate in peer review.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shelley Rhodes
- Job title
- Health Records Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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