Band 7 Quality Governance Manager - Gynaecology

To lead the Patient Safety and Risk strategy within the Women Services directorate. This involves fostering a culture amongst teams that ensures clinical quality and risk management remains one of the top priorities within the division through:

• Enable all staff in women's to actively participate in identifying, actioning and evaluating all patient safety and risk issues
• Leading and supporting the communication and management of the issues through Datix in line with policy.
• Support investigation leads in the investigation of safety events within Gynaecology.
• Analyse trends to ensure actions are put in place to reduce the risk of recurrence.
• Writing timely reports which clearly identify the issues, lessons learned and changes to practice.
• Triangulate all patient safety data to ensure divisional focus is appropriate to risk and protects patient safety
Main duties of the job Work collaboratively with the Women's governance team, senior nurses,therapists and medical staff to deliver and co-ordinate the quality, governance and safety strategy within the speciality. Oversee the Gynae risk register. Ensure the appropriate level of investigation is taken in response to the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework. Report to and participate in relevant unit, Trust and network level governance and risk meetings. To work alongside the clinical team to develop new and review existing policies and guidelines.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests. Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top