Clinical Expert - Clinical Effectiveness and Outcomes

Job summary

HMT are currently seeking an experienced Clinical Effectiveness and Outcomes Lead to manage and drive HMT's Clinical Effectiveness function within a newly developed Clinical Effectiveness Framework . Reporting to the Executive Director of Clinical and Acute Care, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring evidence-based clinical practice by leading on clinical audits, NICE guidelines, patient and resident outcome measures, and benchmarking.

In this role, you will promote a culture of continuous quality improvement , providing expert support and guidance to clinical leaders and teams across the organization. You will facilitate the development of clinical improvement plans, contribute to clinical risk management reporting, and work closely with key stakeholders to ensure quality priorities and assurance mechanisms are delivered to the highest standard.

At HMT, our values are the foundation of everything we do. Leading on Clinical Effectiveness and Outcomes , you will embody our commitment to being caring, enterprising, resourceful, authentic, and accountable . Through your leadership, you will ensure that clinical practices are evidence-based and continuously improved, putting the needs of our residents and patients at the heart of every decision

The role has the opportunity to work remotely with travel to sites expected as required.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities :

• The Clinical Effectiveness and Outcomes Lead will be operationally report to the Executive Director of Clinical and Acute Care and will manage the HMT wide Clinical Effectiveness function. This will be incorporated within a new Clinical Effectiveness Framework. This role will lead on all aspects of Clinical Audit, NICE Guidelines and other clinical and quality guidelines and standards, Patient / Resident Outcome measures and benchmarking ensuring clinical practice is evidence based whilst promoting, via positive role modelling, a continuous quality improvement culture.
• In addition, this post will facilitate the services to identify and complete clinical improvement plans based on audit data, be involved in clinical risk management reporting and work closely with the Head of Patient Safety and Improvement corporately as required.
• The post holder will work across the organisation, providing support, advice and guidance to the Heads of Clinical Service, Care Home Managers and deputies, and clinical teams on delivery of clinical audits, quality priorities and quality assurance mechanisms.

The full Job Description and list of responsibilities is available to download below.

About us

At the Healthcare Management Trust, we are obsessed with achieving our Vision, to be the most innovative and best quality provider of niche health and social care services.

Our Purpose is, to make every contact count, ensuring every resident and patient receives the best possible experience and outcome.

We aim to provide services which value collaboration and place our residents, patients and people at the heart of all we do. We will always do the right thing for our residents, patients and people.

We will be outwardly connected to the most innovative practices and service offerings in the market. We will do things differently and will be bold with our ambition to change things for the better.

We are passionate about what we do and so are our people. Bringing their most authentic selves to work and seeking joy and fun in what we do.

We will deliver care and clinical interactions compassionately and tailor them to individual needs.

We achieve this by living our business Values each and every day :

We are caring We are enterprising We are resourceful We are authentic We are accountable

As a result, we are able to give back to the people and communities we serve by delivering on our Charitable Mission to, Provide quality and innovative care solutions to those with complex needs within marginalized community settings.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide support and expert advice to the HMT-wide services / sites by developing and implementing a Clinical Effectiveness Framework.

Provide specialist advice and guidance to site leadership teams in relation to the Annual Clinical Audit Programme and local audits, NICE guidance and Quality Standards, Outcome measures and benchmarking, general compliance with agreed standards in practice, using data review, quality reporting and quality improvement methodology.

Develop, implement and managed policy development for policies in own area of responsibility (NICE guidelines, Clinical Audit Policy, Measuring Outcomes & Benchmarking) and wider quality, safety or governance areas.

Lead responsibility for HMTs Annual Clinical Audit programme. Monitor the implementation of recommendations and audit plans and NICE standards escalating non-compliance or problem areas through the HMT governance structure.

Instigate audits or review where quality falls short of the required level, escalating key risks or issues in a timely manner.

Oversee the process for compliance with NICE guidance and other evidence-based practice, implementing monitoring systems for this and providing reports to corporate meetings.

Lead responsibility for mapping, collecting and responding to agreed outcome measures used across HMT to support the Quality Improvement Plan.

Ensure that staff are supported in their improvement journeys; their input is valued and incorporated into improvement work

Provide training for staff in clinical audit design and methodology, use of policy and process to support their improvements in practice.

Develop and recruit local site level Clinical Audit champions to assist in the implementation of the Clinical Effectiveness Framework

Work closely with the Head of Patient Safety and Improvement supporting effective clinical risk management across the sites and appropriate risk reduction plans and escalation.

Lead and support teams across the organisation to maintain a culture of continuous quality improvement, using quality improvement methodologies to empower staff to improve quality and patient safety across the organisation.

Provide a high-quality data analysis and report writing function to support key organisational committees, such as the Quality Group, Clinical Governance Committee and Governance Committee. Input into the HMT Annual Report.

Play a key role in steering the strategic direction for Clinical Effectiveness within HMT based upon the National Strategies and emerging best practice evidence.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable