Job summary
- Main area
- Quality Assurance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 111-6194160
- Employer
- NHS Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sir John Robinson House
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/04/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Quality Manager - Mental Health
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic healthcare professional to join our Nursing and Quality Directorate. The post will play an integral role in contributing to the Triple Aim to deliver High Quality Care putting Quality and Safety at the forefront of planning and decision making across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
Through professional and clinical leadership, the role will ensure that health and care inequalities and variation are addressed, that serious quality concerns are managed effectively, and that learning, intelligence and improvement are shared across the system to inform on-going improvement.
The successful candidate will work collaboratively with partners from across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire system championing the importance of quality, ensuring a good understanding of what 'good' looks like and how we can build on delivering high-quality care. We are looking for a driven, energetic, resilient, and organised individual to support a shared commitment to quality.
The successful post holder must have previous experience of working with others to gain assurance of high quality care and patient safety. You will be confident in determining whether appropriate care is being delivered or if additional interventions/actions are required.
This is a truly exciting opportunity to join our team and make a difference to the lives of families across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire; if you would like further information please do get in touch.
Main duties of the job
1. To ensure the fundamental standards of quality are delivered – including managing quality risks, including safety risks, and addressing inequalities and variation.
2. To continually improve the quality of services, in a way that makes a real difference to the people using them.
3. To support our collective ambition to improve the health and wellbeing of our local population in delivery of our Integrated Care Strategy and Joint Forward Plan's ambitions, aims, principles and priorities.
Working for our organisation
The Quality manager sits in the nursing and quality directorate. Our team is headed by our Chief Nurse, director of quality and associate director of quality and patient safety.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Promote Integration
Improve the Quality of services
Reduce inequalities
Promote patient and public involvement
Promote prevention
Promote equity
Person specification
Dispositional Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to encourage and achieve change through the use of effective influencing and facilitation skills
- Highly organised with an ability to prioritise and have a logical approach to problem solving
- Highly motivated and have effective interpersonal skills
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered professional with a healthcare qualification
Desirable criteria
- Registered professional with a healthcare qualification
- Evidence of relevant post registration qualifications, plus significant post registration experience at a Degree level or equivalent
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to undertake data analysis and the presentation of information
- Ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Ability to write and present clear presentations and present information in a clear and concise manner
- Ability to produce clear action plans and ensure delivery
- Excellent programme and project management skills
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Effective organisational and time management skills
- Investigative skills
- IT and standard keyboard skills and proficient in the use of software packages (word, excel, powerpoint)
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Experience of coordinating projects and internal processes and procedures in challenging environments
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level
Desirable criteria
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
- Experience of managing a team
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding and up to date knowledge of Integrated Care Systems
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
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
- Donna Nussey
- Job title
- Head of Quality & Improvement
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Or Contact:
Rebecca Gorringe: [email protected]
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