We are looking for a highly motivated, organised and proactive individual to join our Physiological Sciences IQIPS (Improving Quality in Physiological Services) Accreditation Team and play a key role in supporting accreditation across our Healthcare Science services.
As an Accreditation Co-ordinator, you will be contributing directly to service quality, patient experience, and continuous improvement whilst reporting to the Physiological Sciences Accreditation Manager and working closely with multidisciplinary teams to support our services through the UKAS IQIPS Accreditation Programme.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop a career in healthcare quality assurance, and you will play a vital role in maintaining and enhancing our Quality Management System, helping ensure compliance with accreditation standards and supporting the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality patient care.
We offer a flexible, hybrid working approach: however, you will be required to work on-site across the main hospital sites in Winchester and Basingstoke, with occasional travel to Andover Community Diagnostic Centre for specific tasks.
For further details, please contact: [email protected], Claire Beet, Physiological Sciences Accreditation Manager
Support the preparation and submission of accreditation evidence through the UKAS online portal
Coordinate and track progress against accreditation action plans and quality standards
Assist with organising and supporting UKAS assessment visits, including note-taking and coordination
Maintain and monitor documentation within the Quality Management System (Ideagen)
Support audit programmes, data collection, and reporting to demonstrate compliance
Produce accurate meeting minutes and manage action logs
Assist with risk assessments, patient feedback reporting, and service improvement initiatives
Collaborate effectively with clinical and non-clinical teams across multiple sites
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
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A new role has been developed as part of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Community Diagnostic Centre Programme and across the wider Trust. The Physiological Sciences Accreditation Co‑ordinator will work as part of the Physiological Sciences Accreditation Team, providing support for accreditation activities to the Physiological Sciences Accreditation Manager and to the three Healthcare Science services participating in the UKAS IQIPS (Improving Quality in Physiological Sciences) Accreditation Programme.
As the Accreditation Co-ordinator, you will support a wide range of activities related to the organisation’s compliance with the accreditation’s five domain standards, playing a key role in supporting the quality management system (QMS).
You will assist the Accreditation Manager ensuring appropriate evidence is documented and uploaded to the UKAS Online Portal in preparation for the services UKAS assessments. In doing so, you will contribute to improving service efficiency and help maintain a robust framework for continuous improvement within healthcare sciences.
- To assist the Accreditation Manager with the collation of evidence to illustrate compliance with quality standards and input data into UKAS online portal in relation to accreditation evidence, or data upload as agreed.
- Provide support with following up actions on the services’ accreditation action plans and monitoring progress on the gap analysis five domain’s (Leadership & Management, Patient Experience, Facilities & Resources, Safety & Risk and Clinical) standards criteria.
- To assist the Accreditation Manager with the co-ordination of accreditation assessment visits and attend at various site locations where required to chaperone UKAS Assessors and take notes during the UKAS visit accreditation cycle.
- To attend team meetings (either face to face or on MS Teams) in order to produce accurate formal meeting minutes and develop an action plan, ensuring core agenda items are noted to achieve evidence for the accreditation’s standards.
- To support the services in maintaining the QMS (Ideagen) nonconformities, audit, training and document control modules and assist with training staff where required.
- Monitoring documents to ensure they are reviewed and approved, adhere to the correct templates (reformatting as necessary), and are uploaded to the Ideagen in a timely manner.
- Monitor the service’s low-level nonconformances within Ideagen, ensuring they are accurately completed, appropriately investigated and closed in a timely manner.
- Support services in achievement of audit programmes with regards to the function of accreditation audits and survey data collection, including the ability to draft outcome reports and actions plans in accordance with IQIPS criteria.
- To be responsible for logging patient experience feedback received within the Services on InPhase reporting system under ‘good care’, for sharing with the whole department.
- To assist the Service Leads with dashboard data collection required for National data requests regular.
- To assist the Service Leads with conducting site location risk assessments of department/clinical areas, identifying, and escalating risks to the Accreditation Manager and Service Lead for consideration on the risk register.
- May be asked to perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent to the role.
