Neonatal Nursing Governance Lead inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED 10 JUN 2024

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research.
Job summary

As the Neonatal Nursing Governance Lead the post holder will take responsibility for leading on continuous improvement of service quality and promoting an environment of excellence with the highest standards of care.

Main duties of the job

  • Lead investigation of serious incidents and adverse events with senior medical, nursing and maternity staff, providing timely information reports to be presented at Governance meeting: analyse/identifying the trends, lessons learnt and recommending/challenging practices to appropriately reduce risks and protects patient safety.
  • Support staff and guide them in the management of incidents and complaints, promoting reflection on practice and disseminating learning.
  • Lead on the implementation and management of change in response to learning from incidents, ensuring that any necessary actions are taken to prevent similar incidents occurring.
  • Ensure the appropriate level of investigation is undertaken in response to incidents, reflecting the severity of incidents. 6. Ensure incident reporting via relevant Trust and national governance pathways.
  • To support the delivery of the Neonatal Unit risk, quality and safety agenda ensuring departmental compliance with CQC outcomes. This will include collaborating closely with the neonatal data manger and other stakeholders to provide accurate outcome reports.
  • Report to and participate in, relevant Trust and Neonatal Network Governance and Risk meetings.
  • To work closely with Divisional Governance lead ensuring that all governance related matters are communicated to the management team and are up to date.
About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of managing change
  • A clear understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance, audit, the required outputs and the use to improve clinical practice.
  • Clear understanding of CQC Essential Standards, NPSA & NHSLA risk management standards
  • Knowledge of Audit and service improvement
  • Working knowledge of the incident process
Desirable

  • Demonstrate ability to assess and make effective decisions under pressure
Qualifications

Essential

  • Graduate level Registered Nurse
  • Post registration Qualification in Neonatology
  • Current NLS certification
  • Safeguarding Children training (level 3)
  • Leadership and management training
Desirable

  • Postgraduate qualification in management
Person Specification
Experience

Essential

  • Experience of managing change
  • A clear understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance, audit, the required outputs and the use to improve clinical practice.
  • Clear understanding of CQC Essential Standards, NPSA & NHSLA risk management standards
  • Knowledge of Audit and service improvement
  • Working knowledge of the incident process
Desirable

  • Demonstrate ability to assess and make effective decisions under pressure
Qualifications

Essential

  • Graduate level Registered Nurse
  • Post registration Qualification in Neonatology
  • Current NLS certification
  • Safeguarding Children training (level 3)
  • Leadership and management training
Desirable

  • Postgraduate qualification in management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address

St George's Hospital

Blackshaw Road

Tooting,London

SW17 0QT

Employer's website
Job summary

As the Neonatal Nursing Governance Lead the post holder will take responsibility for leading on continuous improvement of service quality and promoting an environment of excellence with the highest standards of care.

Main duties of the job

  • Lead investigation of serious incidents and adverse events with senior medical, nursing and maternity staff, providing timely information reports to be presented at Governance meeting: analyse/identifying the trends, lessons learnt and recommending/challenging practices to appropriately reduce risks and protects patient safety.
  • Support staff and guide them in the management of incidents and complaints, promoting reflection on practice and disseminating learning.
  • Lead on the implementation and management of change in response to learning from incidents, ensuring that any necessary actions are taken to prevent similar incidents occurring.
  • Ensure the appropriate level of investigation is undertaken in response to incidents, reflecting the severity of incidents. 6. Ensure incident reporting via relevant Trust and national governance pathways.
  • To support the delivery of the Neonatal Unit risk, quality and safety agenda ensuring departmental compliance with CQC outcomes. This will include collaborating closely with the neonatal data manger and other stakeholders to provide accurate outcome reports.
  • Report to and participate in, relevant Trust and Neonatal Network Governance and Risk meetings.
  • To work closely with Divisional Governance lead ensuring that all governance related matters are communicated to the management team and are up to date.
About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of managing change
  • A clear understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance, audit, the required outputs and the use to improve clinical practice.
  • Clear understanding of CQC Essential Standards, NPSA & NHSLA risk management standards
  • Knowledge of Audit and service improvement
  • Working knowledge of the incident process
Desirable

  • Demonstrate ability to assess and make effective decisions under pressure
Qualifications

Essential

  • Graduate level Registered Nurse
  • Post registration Qualification in Neonatology
  • Current NLS certification
  • Safeguarding Children training (level 3)
  • Leadership and management training
Desirable

  • Postgraduate qualification in management
Person Specification
Experience

Essential

  • Experience of managing change
  • A clear understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance, audit, the required outputs and the use to improve clinical practice.
  • Clear understanding of CQC Essential Standards, NPSA & NHSLA risk management standards
  • Knowledge of Audit and service improvement
  • Working knowledge of the incident process
Desirable

  • Demonstrate ability to assess and make effective decisions under pressure
Qualifications

Essential

  • Graduate level Registered Nurse
  • Post registration Qualification in Neonatology
  • Current NLS certification
  • Safeguarding Children training (level 3)
  • Leadership and management training
Desirable

  • Postgraduate qualification in management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address

St George's Hospital

Blackshaw Road

Tooting,London

SW17 0QT

Employer's website


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