The Head of Quality will lead and oversee the organisations quality and patient safety functions, ensuring robust systems are in place to support safe, effective, and person‑centred care and ensure a robust governance framework is in place to optimise standards, manage risk, and facilitate an open learning culture to support continuous quality improvement. This role will have operational responsibility for the following key areas:
Responsibilities
* Incident management
* Development and implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)
* Supporting activities related to Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulatory compliance and preparation
* Complaints, PALS and service user feedback
* Clinical effectiveness activity linked to policy, procedure and audit.
* Quality reporting
* Quality assurance including quality visits.
* Medical devices and safety alerts.
Alongside the care group Assistant Clinical Directors for Quality and Safety they will take responsibility for ensuring that quality and safety functions are implemented and embedded within care groups to improve and promote quality oversight. Working in collaboration with the Deputy Director of Nursing, AHPs and Quality, they will play a key role in the strategic development and implementation of quality and safety initiatives and approaches to promote continuous improvement and compliance with statutory and regulatory compliance.
We encourage applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under‑represented within our organisation.
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