To play an active role in implementing the Trust's Clinical Audit Plan throughout the Trust.To advise and assist clinicians and other Health Care Professionals with collating, analysing, preparing and presenting data from a variety of hospital information sources for Clinical Audit. To generally contribute to the promotion of Clinical Audit within the Trust., To assist with the implementation of the Trust's Clinical Audit Plan throughout the Trust.

To support and facilitate and formally present audit outcomes at multi-disciplinary Clinical Audit Management groups in nominated Directorates.

To advise, co-ordinate and implement Divisional Clinical Audit Programmes.

To develop strategies and action plans for audit activity and ensure completionofplanning and reporting requirements within the specified timetable.

To advise Clinicians on the feasibility of proposed Audits

To retrieve and summarise relevant information for Clinical Audit from theappropriate source(s) eg Networking with other Departments/Trusts, Intranet, Internet, Hospital Information Systems, Datix system, etc.

In collaboration with Trust staff initiate, design,plan, develop, format and implement audits and maintain information systems to record data for auditpurposes.

To analyse and present data from completed clinical audit projects making practical recommendations and providing advice for changes in practice to improve patient care as appropriate meeting deadlines.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

o The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.o Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.o Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.