Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 105-6300143-A
- Employer
- Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Shire Hall
- Town
- Warwick
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Director Nursing for Quality and Patient Safety
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
This is a key leadership role within Coventry and Warwickshire ICB with a responsibility to drive improvements in quality, patient safety and effectiveness in the services that are commissioned for the population of Coventry and Warwickshire. The post holder will provide leadership to the Nursing and Quality team, reporting to the Associate Chief Nurse for Quality and Patient Safety. They will work as a named Patient Safety Specialist for the ICB, and therefore will develop related strategy, policies, and operational procedures along with developing and monitoring patient safety and quality standards within contracts.
Please note that previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have ongoing responsibility for leading the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) implementation embedding continuous quality improvement and assurance of patient safety systems and process. The post will also have a role in leading patient safety and quality across the ICB. Providing leadership advice in the development of nursing . The post requires collaborative working across the local health and social care sectors to:
1. Deliver ICB strategies and directorate objectives.
2. Drive Equality and Diversity within the ICB and in commissioned services.
3. Drive improvement in quality, patient safety, and effectiveness.
4. Ensure the ICB is at the forefront of best practice.
5. Lead patient experience and outcome measures.
6. Deputise for the Associate Chief Nurse for Quality and Patient Safety across all aspects of the directorate’s responsibilities.
Working for our organisation
The purpose of Coventry and Warwickshire ICB is to;
- improve outcomes in population and healthcare
- Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
- Enhance productivity and value for money
- Help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
The Quality Team work collaboratively across the ICB and our system. The team have developed a set of team values that are weaved into every day working practices. The team strive to be welcoming open and compassionate. The team provides a supportive, expert and collaborative multi-disciplinary team environment, enabling the successful candidate to thrive in their new role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be required to be able to be forward thinking and strategic along with the ability to manage day to day processes. Key responsibilities include:
· Provide leadership for clinical governance including Quality Impact Assessments within ICB processes.
· Lead the ICB Patient Safety Team responsible for the development and implementation of the ICB PSIRF Policy, plan, and Patient Safety Strategy
· Provide leadership for quality in collaboration with the commissioning teams.
· Provide leadership on provision of assurance and risk management, associated with the directorate objectives.
· Lead the development and delivery of best practice in relation to Equality and Diversity
· Ensure all staff within the nursing and quality team work together to deliver team objectives and work closely with the Deputy Director of Nursing and Clinical Transformation to ensure effective matrix working between both elements of the teams.
· Support nurse revalidation across the directorate
· Work with other directorates to ensure quality drives our way of working.
· Deputise for the Associate Chief Nurse across a range of duties.
· Accountability for developing Patient Safety and quality standards.
· Accountability for developing strategy, policy and procedures to deliver ICB and directorate objectives.
· Working with a wider range of quality indicators requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison and making decisions on appropriate actions in response to findings
· Lead on Quality and Equality Impact assessments.
· Work with other leaders and managers to embed quality in all processes.
· Work with Commissioning Team to ensure safe and appropriate health is commissioned together with robust quality monitoring and assurance.
· Work closely with the medicines management team to ensure safety systems are embedded across patient pathways.
· Work constructively and collaboratively with other members of the senior team to ensure statutory duties and objectives are met.
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse with current NMC registration or Allied Health care professional with current professional registration
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Significant experience of delivering performance management information and analysis
- Significant experience of managing a service within the NHS.
- Expert understanding of the current national policies and guidance of priorities, associated with reporting in relation to national and local data and information requirements
- Expert understanding of and background to the aims of national Patient Safety healthcare policies
- Proven ability to train, support and develop staff in the use of multiple information systems.
Desirable criteria
- Expert knowledge and experience of delivering project and programme management techniques and methodologies
- An understanding of service improvement methodologies and experience of using such, for instance Lean
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Gorrell
- Job title
- Associate Chief Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07979707296
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