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Job summary

Main area
Admin
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
444-6482910-CG
Employer
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Caludon Centre
Town
Coventry
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/08/2024 23:59
Interview date
27/08/2024

Employer heading

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust logo

Head of Quality Assurance

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services

We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’

Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.

PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.

Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team.   If you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.

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Job overview

Head of Quality Assurance

This is an exciting role to join the Business and Transformation team in CWPTs Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Directorate. We are the organisation largest directorate and this is a senior leadership role. The post holder will have autonomy and be responsible for the delivery of quality and operational improvement strategy. The role will be critical to support delivery of directorate and trust objectives by enhancing clinical models of care. 

Main duties of the job

They will be expert in the monitoring of clinical and operational outcomes of services and will understand how to find unwanted variances in clinical practice and clinical outcomes for patients. 

They will use this knowledge to work with clinical teams where a differentiation is demonstrated, working with that clinical team to understand immediate and longer-term issues which need support to resolve. They will be the directorate champion for evidence-based and best practice working, enabling and facilitating sharing of the same across teams within the directorate. 

They will be actively interested in the leadership and working behaviours, which underpin how teams function, to create bespoke development packages for clinical teams aligned to their individual needs and ambitions. 

They will lead service reviews and evaluations for the directorate to capture quality, value for money and how we can reduce health inequalities and optimise positive access, experience and outcomes for staff and patients.

This work will focus in particular on the facilitation of teams/professionals to work effectively together (this may be with teams and organisations from outside CWPT).

Working for our organisation

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities. 

These include:

·       12-month preceptorship

·       generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us

·       flexible working opportunities

·       relocation packages

·       excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more

·       salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more

·       discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes

·       wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more

·       staff networks and support groups

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to a Masters level or demonstrable knowledge at the same level
  • Evidence of other leadership training and commitment to personal development
  • Extensive experience in developing effective teams a clinical setting

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Relevant experience of team management a senior level in the NHS or within an equivalent healthcare setting,
  • Relevant experience of working proactively with clinical teams, facilitating stakeholder acknowledgement and the benefits of integrated working
  • Experience of driving impactful service change

Other

Essential criteria
  • Able to travel to meetings as required

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Eleanor Cappell
Job title
Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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