About this role
Job summary
The Cardiology Department at King's Mill Hospital is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Clinical Auditor to join our dynamic and fast-paced team. Committed to delivering outstanding patient care, we are looking for a motivated individual who shares our passion for excellence and continuous improvement.
As a Clinical Auditor, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the service to meet nationally agreed targets and standards. You will be a key point of contact for colleagues, providing expert guidance, responding to enquiries, and ensuring effective communication across the service.
You will take ownership of managing multiple cardiology audits, balancing competing priorities with accuracy and efficiency. Your ability to maintain meticulous records, monitor performance, and ensure high-quality data will be essential. This role demands strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and a proactive approach.
This is a rewarding opportunity to contribute to service development and quality improvement while working within a supportive team environment. If you are driven, detail-focused, and committed to making a positive impact on patient care, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Collect and validate patient data from case notes and Cardiac Catheter Suite records, supporting national Cardiac Audits and ensuring accurate, timely submissions.
Maintain and update national databases, contributing to high-quality data analysis and the production of monthly and quarterly reports for Cardiology services.
Produce clear performance reports for the Trust Board, Division of Medicine, and Finance teams, supporting monitoring, planning, commissioning, and service development.
Work closely with Clinical Heads of Service to provide insightful data that informs financial planning, business cases, and quality improvement.
Use systems including Microsoft Office, Medway, and PRISM to create professional reports, presentations, and data outputs, while supporting colleagues in their use.
Uphold strict confidentiality at all times when handling sensitive patient and service information.
Collaborate with audit leads to develop and enhance data collection tools to meet both internal and national reporting requirements.
This is an excellent opportunity to use your analytical skills and attention to detail to make a real impact on service improvement and patient care within Cardiac services.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Job description Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Knowledge Essential
Entry level knowledge and understanding of a range of routine work procedures particularly those based on data /information collection and processing Knowledge of data collection, spreadsheets/databases and clinical audit. Knowledge of Microsoft Office software/Windows-based applications. Patient records / case notes Confidentiality Multidisciplinary Team working. Basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology, clinical audit / data validation and analysis gained on the job / further training.
Desirable
Intermediate level knowledge and understanding of a range of routine work procedures particularly those based on data /information collection and processing. Knowledge and understanding of a range of routine work procedures, including those outside immediate work area Database design Simple statistics Specialist healthcare roles within critical care
Qualifications Essential
Good general education with GCSE English at grade C or above, (or equivalent).
Desirable
Study beyond GCSE European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)
Further Training Essential
Hospital computer systems e.g. Medway, case note tracking, ORION
Desirable
Data analysis / elementary statistics Wide range of medical / surgical terminology knowledge acquired through further training.
Experience Essential
Data entry Previous experience within a clinical environment/healthcare setting Team work
Desirable
Presentation of data verbally and in written format Extracting data from computerised databases and producing reports Flexible approach to working
Contractual Requirements Essential
Standard, as stated in Agenda for Change.
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.
Employer details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton-in-Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)