Assistant Audit Manager

Post Date : 09-Jul-2025 Close Date : 27-Jul-2025 Job Title : Assistant Audit Manager Department : National Office of Clinical Audit Tenure : Permanent, Full-time Location : St Stephens Green, Dublin 2 - Hybrid Reporting to : Head of Audit Management Closing date : 27th of July 2025 RCSI is a community of academic, research, clinical and professional staff working collaboratively to lead the world to better health. Here, you will thrive in an innovative and inclusive atmosphere and your personal development and wellbeing will be supported. We invite you to join us to help deliver on our exciting mission “To educate, nurture and discover for the benefit of human health”. For each of the last six years, RCSI has been positioned in the Top 300 of universities worldwide in the Times Higher World University Rankings. We are proud that RCSI ranks fifth in the world for “Good Health and Well- being” in the Times Higher Education #SDG #SDG Impact Rankings 2024. This reflects our commitment to supporting people of all ages to live healthy lives and our work to promote the concepts of well-being and positive health. Our values of Respect, Collaboration, Scholarship and Innovation continue to unite and direct our purpose. Innovating for a Healthier Future 2023-2027 is RCSI’s new five-year strategic plan. Through it, RCSI will enhance human health by meeting the health workforce needs of society, creating the insights and inventions that drive health improvements, and working in partnership with patients and the public in support of better health and well-being for all. The strategy unites the RCSI community in supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals – with a particular focus on Goal 3, which targets good health and well-being. More details about RCSI can be found at ; in particular. RCSI is a community of academic, research, clinical and professional staff working collaboratively to lead the world to better health. Here, you will thrive in an innovative and inclusive atmosphere and your personal development and wellbeing will be supported. We invite you to join us to help deliver on our exciting mission “To educate, nurture and discover for the benefit of human health”. We seek candidates whose experience to date has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to the “Race Equality Action Plan 2025-2029” at RCSI. Our students come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. This makes our university stronger and ensures we hire the best talent. About National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) The National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) was established in 2012 to create sustainable national clinical audit across the Irish healthcare system. NOCA is funded by the Health Service Executive Office of the Chief Clinical Officer (CCO), and National Centre for Clinical Audit (NCCA) and governed by an independent voluntary Board. NOCA is operationally supported by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). Internationally, clinical audit is a recognised approach to improving the quality of patient care and improving outcomes. Working with the HSE and the Department of Health (DoH) through its National Clinical Effectiveness Committee (NCEC), NOCA designs, establishes and supports a portfolio of national clinical audits based on national priorities that include burden of care, variation of care, availability of clinical standards and economic benefit. NOCA advocates for change at a national level, arising from key findings in our audits. We do this by working with senior decision makers at both policy and operational levels within the Irish healthcare system. NOCA promotes transparent reporting and publishes national annual reports for each of its audits well as providing regular reports to health service providers. NOCA Audit Portfolio NOCA is the largest national clinical audit provider in Ireland. It has a growing number of national clinical audits and registers. Broadly the audit topics can be summarised into a number of areas including : Trauma and Surgery, Critical Care, Paediatrics, Chronic Disease and Mortality. Purpose of this Role The purpose of this post is to assist the programme and audit managers across a number of audits. Specific duties include :

• Day to day audit support and management tasks
• Work with the programme and audit managers and clinical leads
• Support the organisation of audit governance committee meetings
• Support the monthly teleconferences for hospital-based audit coordinators
• Support in the delivery of annual workshops for the audit coordinators and / or clinical leads
• Support the development of training and education materials for audits
• Provide administrative support for meetings, hospital communications, report dissemination
• Manage day to day hospital queries related to the audits and managing them in a timely manner
• Support the programme and audit managers in the preparation of reports.
• Ensure adherence to NOCA best practice policies and procedures
• Present data at relevant conferences, meetings, association meetings
• Support the implementation of the audit / register to new hospitals
• Support ongoing developments in the audit
• Support ongoing research
• Knowledge and compliance of clinical audit and data quality standards Qualifications
• Third level qualification in relevant discipline or equivalent professional training combined with relevant experience (Medical, Nursing, Pharmacists, Health and Social Care professions, Medical administration) Knowledge & Experience – (Essential) :
• Postgraduate experience
• Clinical Audit experience
• Track record of building positive working relationships with relevant stakeholders
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written) to engage with all stakeholders, both clinical and nonclinical
• Self-motivated individual
• I.T. skills : Knowledge of MS Office suite Skills & Competencies – (Desirable) :
• Quality Improvement experience
• Problem Solving Skills and accuracy and attention to detail in all tasks
• Self-starter with the ability to work as part of a team : co-operative and patient; shares work and information; establishes rapport, can influence and develop effective networks
• Flexibility : Can operate flexibly within a busy environment; can shift focus when required as well as the ability to prioritise conflicting demands to meet deadlines
• Motivated : Display a ‘can-do’ attitude; demonstrate enthusiasm and passion for the role
• Experience in any of the clinical areas Trauma and Surgery, Paediatrics, Critical Care and Chronic Disease
• Experience delivering training programmes
• Clean driving licence / own car required Benefits
• Great location on the Luas line combined with flexible working from home
• Excellent benefits including subsidised staff restaurant and gym ‘We are all too aware that imposter syndrome and the confidence gap can sometimes stop fantastic candidates putting themselves forward, so please do submit an application — we’d love to hear from you.’ Click on the link(s) below to view documents Filesize 438.9