The Lead for Quality Governance provides senior operational leadership for the Trust's quality governance agenda, ensuring processes are effective, coherent and supportive. Working under the strategic direction of the Head of Quality Governance, Risk & Compliance, the post-holder brings specialist quality governance insight, leads delegated programmes of work, contributes to Trustwide quality governance leadership development and promotes a culture aligned to the CUH values of Safe, Kind and Excellent.
They also ensure key quality governance meetings operate effectively, with clear reporting, structured oversight and early identification of risks to support learning and improvement., Provide senior operational leadership for the delivery of the quality governance agenda across CUH.
Ensure quality governance expectations are clearly articulated, well-understood and consistently applied across Divisions and at a Trustwide level.
Provide expert leadership in quality governance, drawing on specialist knowledge of risk management, patient safety, patient experience and clinical effectiveness and national standards to support Divisions and the organisation in embedding robust governance systems.
Support Divisions to strengthen quality governance systems and embed improvement actions.
Contribute to the development and review of Trust wide quality governance policies, procedures and strategies, offering specialist insight.
Support the development and implementation of medium- and long-term quality governance improvement plans across clinical areas.
The role requires strong visibility across clinical areas, excellent analytical capability, senior influencing skills and the ability to lead staff and stakeholders through improvement in relation to quality governance.
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
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