Clinical Quality Advisor
We are recruiting a Clinical Quality Advisor to advise and support our clinical quality workstreams, including representing the College in its work with stakeholders across different disciplines.
The Clinical Quality Advisor is central to the successful running of the Clinical Quality team and will be supported by a number of dedicated and experienced College staff.
The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a commitment to setting the highest standards for anaesthesia and patient care, and to working with anaesthetists to improve the service they provide. Recent experience in other College roles is also desirable.
Responsibilities include
- Responding to clinical enquiries received from members, healthcare professionals, patients and the public.
- Providing clinical support to workstreams such as our response to regulation 28: prevention of future death reports.
- Escalating patient safety and quality of care issues, as identified through membership of College Council, Clinical Quality and Research Board and other College committees.
- Representing the College in its work with multidisciplinary stakeholders and providing day-to-day support to our Invited Review programme.
About this opportunity
The position is a fixed term post of three years, renewable annually subject to performance, from July 2023. The post is supported by a fixed supplement, payable to the postholder’s employing trust or board to enable the successful candidate to dedicate a minimum of 8 hours per week to the role. Specific hours and days of working are flexible and should reflect the ongoing needs of the post.
Full details are available in the job description and person specification.
If you would like to have an informal discussion about this role or to apply with a CV and covering letter, please contact clinicalquality@rcoa.ac.uk.
Closing Date for applications: 9am Monday 15th May 2023.
Interviews will be held in late May/early June 2023.
At the Royal College of Anaesthetists, diversity, equality and inclusion is an integral part of our culture so it is important to us that this is reflected in everything that we do. We welcome applications from all individuals irrespective of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, marital status or parental responsibilities to ensure we actively embrace an inclusive and representative culture that encourages, supports and celebrates our differences.