Job Introduction
Are you a registered professional passionate about Quality and Patient Safety? Do you have experience of working in a senior leadership role which includes oversight of quality, governance and safety of healthcare services? Then this could be the next career step you have been looking for.
We are looking for a Lead for Quality and Patient Safety to join us on a permanent basis to support, advise and deliver a wide portfolio of functions to maintain quality across all service areas. You will be working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards with 100%of our services being rated overall “good” or “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission. You will work in a supportive team alongside clinical leads and subject matter expects in Surrey and Luton as well as the community services working in partnership with local acute community and social care providers.
Main Responsibility
You will advise on the requirements needed to meet all quality, clinical regulatory and professional standards and support the collation and presentation of contractual clinical quality information to meet the relevant CQUINs and KPIs. Using your leadership skills, you will ensure that the quality agenda is delivered across the services consistently, thus providing assurance via the Business Unit Quality & Governance Committee that services are consistently being provided safely and effectively.
We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields. You’ll have the option to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country. We get together regularly, auditing and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design. You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads. You will be a part of quality improvements, research and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.
The Ideal Candidate
You will be a registered professional from ideally either a Nurse, Therapist or Paramedic background with a relevant clinical qualification. You will have a minimum of 5 years’ post registration experience working in a health or social care environment and be able to demonstrate your leadership experience which includes oversight of quality, governance and safety of healthcare services. A proven ability to influence and drive change and improvement with senior leaders is also a requirement.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
As a Lead for Quality and Patient Safety, you’ll be part of our valued team at Farnham Hospital (Opportunities for flexibility around base location and hybrid working)
You will feel valued as a Lead for Quality and Patient Safety within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £56,164 - £65,262 Band 8b Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Flexibility on discussion of working hour timings
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- *An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- *The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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