This is an exciting opportunity to take up a newly created post, joining the Clinical Audit and Mortality team at Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will work with the Head of Clinical Audit & Mortality and Trust’s Mortality Lead (Associate Medical Director for Clinical Safety) to develop, support and administer the effective running of the Trust’s mortality governance, the mortality review process and ensure that effective and implemented learning takes place.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work closely with the clinical effectiveness , patient safety, clinical governance, service and information teams (including external services). They must be able to work independently, self-generating a significant proportion of their workload throughinvestigation, engagement and from good practice, helping to identify and set clear targets for themselves, services and the Trust.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent evidence.
- Mentorship/teaching qualification or relevant experience.
Desirable
- Master’s Degree Participation in audit and quality issues
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Working knowledge of learning from deaths and its application within an acute provider
- Experience of producing and delivering reports for governance processes and audit.
- Experience of delivering improvements in patient safety and quality.
- Structured Judgement review experience and training.
Desirable
- Understands and participates in evidence based practice.
- Knowledge of patient safety
Personal Attributes & Skills
Essential
- Professional approach
- Motivated and adaptable to learning new skills that meet service needs
- Able to communicate at all levels, including external stakeholder liaison
- Able to work as an individual and part of a team with experience of working with multi-agency – multi disciplinary teams
- Scheduling Structured Judgement Reviews (SJR) through the SJR Plus platform
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate good management qualities.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 02 March 2026
