Job overview

This is an outstanding opportunity to join our Trust as the Executive Director of Quality, a critical member of our leadership team. Reporting directly to the newly appointed Chief Executive, Salman Desai, you will be at the forefront of ensuring patient safety as the highest priority whilst shaping the future of our Trust. Your strategic leadership will drive excellence across quality, assurance, innovation, and improvement, ensuring that our services are not only safe and effective but also person-centred and equitable.

Main duties of the job

As a member of the Executive Team, you will define and deliver a compelling vision for quality governance, patient safety, and compliance, fostering a culture of continuous learning and transformation. You will be responsible for patient safety, regulatory compliance, and clinical leadership, and provide professional leadership for the Nursing, Midwifery, and Mental Health workforce. You will lead the development of strategic plans to enhance care pathways, address safety risks, improve service delivery, and embed a robust culture of innovation and improvement.

As an inclusive, creative, and clinically qualified senior leader, you will bring extensive expertise in clinical governance, quality processes, and patient safety. With significant senior leadership experience at or near board level, you will excel at managing change in complex, dynamic, and unionised environments. A skilled communicator and collaborative team player, you will work closely with internal and external stakeholders across the health and care landscape.

The Trust is entering an exciting phase with a recent change in leadership, and the successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping a future that places patient safety and quality at the heart of everything we do.

Working for our organisation

Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC and Ofsted, North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year Urgent and Emergency Care to those in need of immediate medical treatment, and where necessary, transport to the most appropriate receiving hospital/centre. As the geographically largest Ambulance Service in the UK, our 8000 staff and volunteers in over 300 different roles serve a population of more than 7.5 million people across Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire, and part of Derbyshire. Each year we receive approximately 1.4 million 999 calls, respond to just under 1 million emergency incidents, and make more than 1.4 million patient transport journeys for those who require non-emergency transport to and from healthcare appointments. We also deliver the NHS 111 service across the region for people who need medical help or advice, handling around 1.7 million calls every year.

Any offer of employment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information, provide false or misleading information.

Should you be successful at interview stage successful candidates will receive a conditional offer of employment, this will be subject to the NHS Employment Checks Standards.

Right to work - You will be required to provide a valid right to work in the UK document. North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust are currently able to provide sponsorship for roles that identified under the Health and Care visa, further information on this can be found here Health and Care Worker visa: Your job - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Reference checks - This will cover a minimum of a three year period and will include a request for the number of days and occasions of sickness absence covering a minimum two year period. In line with equality legislation, the earliest point at which we will ask health related questions is when an offer of employment has been made. Absences related to disability may be excluded from these considerations; consideration would be given as to what would be a reasonable attendance level, based on the information available. Absences related to pregnancy, maternity and/or gender reassignment will be excluded from these considerations. Detailed information on the NHS Employment Checks Standards is available on the NHS Employers website; search ‘employment checks’.

DBS Checks - If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made for this disclosure.

Occupational Health - You will require satisfactory medical clearance.

Whilst not a condition of employment, all staff are encouraged to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as this remains the best lined of defence against COVID-19.

From 1^st September 2018, Section 2 of the Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions will automatically apply to the calculation of unsocial hours  for all appointments that commence in post from this date (except secondments).

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