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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to join us as the Head of Quality working in the Health & Justice/Public Health Nursing and Quality team. We are seeking to recruit to this full time permanent post working within the Commissioning Integration Directorate of NHS England, Midlands Region

The post holder will lead the Health & Justice/Public Health Nursing and Quality Team working closely and in partnership with Public Health and Health & Justice commissioners to ensure delivery of NHS England’s statutory commissioning responsibilities & national strategy in relation to quality in NHS England’s directly commissioned services.

The successful post holder will have proven leadership skills and management experience and will develop effective systems and processes to ensure the commissioning of safe and clinically appropriate healthcare services, that provide assurance of good quality patient care.

They will work as part of a dynamic team ensuring that commissioned services are of the highest quality, meet agreed national service specifications, and national and regional policy directives and ensures systems are in place to identify and address or escalate emerging quality concerns. 

The ideal candidate will possess excellent organisational and communication skills with subject matter expertise relating to Health and Justice, Public Health screening and immunisation programmes, patient safety and safeguarding adults and children

Main duties of the job

Provides leadership to, and line management of the Health & Justice/Public Health Nursing & Quality Team

Leading the delivery of the statutory agenda in relation to commissioning of Offender Healthcare and Public Health services including Sexual Assault Services.

Overseeing the day to day management of the quality assurance processes for Health and Justice/Public Health within agreed Standard Operating Procedures.

Oversees the implementation of an overarching quality framework

Overseeing the implementation of the Patient Safety Incident/PSIRF process, supporting providers and commissioners in incident management as required and ensuring the learning is embedded. 

Leading on clinical quality visits using the quality visit framework ensuring lessons learnt are shared with commissioning and provider colleagues. 

Develop monthly quality surveillance and direct commissioning reports using both qualitative and quantitative data and information drawn from local, regional, and national data sources, Identify emerging trends and themes and potential quality concerns or improvements. 

Review and develop policies and procedures to support and reflect the activities and responsibilities outlined above

Working for our organisation

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.

The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .

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