To support the Divisional Governance Lead in quality, governance and safety standards in the Community Diagnostic Centre's service covering both the JPUH site and the Northgate CDCs.
* To manage and be accountable for the following:
* Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS).
* Quality Standards for Imaging (QSI).
* The requirements for quality and competence in a medical laboratory environment (ISO15189).
* Support the integration of new diagnostic pathways into the service, ensuring they are aligned with accreditation requirements and clinical governance frameworks.
* Accreditation processes throughout the CDC, carrying out required management and leadership responsibilities to ensure that accreditation is successfully obtained through the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) and thereafter maintained.
* To support the Speciality Leads in ensuring high quality audits and governance processes.
* To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service; all staff are expected to act as a role‑model and consistently demonstrate the JPUH values of Courtesy and Respect, Attentively Kind and Helpful, Responsive Communication, and Effective and Professional.
* To be responsible for leading the CDCs through the accreditation process for the services being provided, working with the accreditation team, and ensuring that the service then maintains accreditation.
* To complete the web‑based electronic assessment process and complete this annually following accreditation.
* To coordinate the service's responses to the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), ensuring that all evidence uploaded to the specialities web‑based assessment is relevant, up‑to‑date, and fully meets the set criteria.
* To coordinate ongoing requirements of CDC standards, ensuring that the processes within the specialities are fully compliant with the relevant standards at all times.
* To organise and coordinate onsite visits with the accreditation team.
* To work closely with the Senior Operations Manager, Clinical Governance Lead Matron and speciality leads, to ensure that governance and safety standards are maintained in line with Trust and UKAS requirements.
* To work with Speciality Team Leads, the Senior Leadership team and Clinical Leads to coordinate relevant audits and evidence requirements of each standard, promoting a culture of continuous quality improvement within each speciality.
* To negotiate and collaborate with all levels of staff across the CDC specialities, to resolve issues and remove barriers to enable change.
The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recognises the requirement to promote health and reduce ill‑health. The Trust is committed to the principles of improving working lives through a number of initiatives such as job share, flexible working and the development of a culture of openness and transparency. The Trust is committed to ensuring that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of around 250,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney areas. The Trust provides an integrated hospital and community children's service.
Patient and staff experience is important to us and these are the behaviours we live by:
* Putting patients first
* Aiming to get it right
* Recognising that everybody counts
* Doing everything openly and honestly
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