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Job summary

Main area
Neonatal
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref
164-7507205-VC
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
City Hospital Neonatal Unit
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/12/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Clinical Quality and Safety Lead

Band 8a

Job overview

Are you ready to make a significant impact on patient safety and care quality? Join us in our mission to deliver excellence in everything we do!

Join us at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), where every day, our teams save lives and improve health outcomes.  As the largest employer in Nottinghamshire we serve over 2.5 million residents and are renowned for our dedication to excellence in healthcare across a diverse range of services.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and innovative lead for Governance, Quality and Safety to drive continuous improvement across our Neonatal Services.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

Lead the implementation and maintenance of quality and safety systems across the Neonatal Service.

Provide expert leadership to ensure compliance with the highest standards of quality and patient safety.

Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to identify quality improvement and governance training needs.

Support the investigation of events, learning response and subsequent implementation of recommendation and actions.

Support the Trust implementation of PSIRF ensuring the principles of compassionate engagement and a just and restorative culture support learning and improvement.

Drive transformational work to support continuous assessment, monitoring and improvement in healthcare delivery, providing support and oversight for the directorate team members.

Contribute to the directorate management team by reporting on regulatory compliance, assurance, learning and quality improvement initiatives.

Close working and liaison with multidisciplinary professionals to ensure triangulation of information and intelligence across the service, division and Trust. This is fundamental to support our teams to deliver the best service in a busy, multi-site Neonatal Service providing care to families living in a broad and varied social demographic.

 

 

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Practitioner Registered with appropriate regulatory body (NMC. HCPC, GPC)
  • • Relevant degree
  • • Evidence of study at or working towards masters level qualification
  • • Up to date knowledge of: clinical audit and effectiveness processes, patient safety and non- clinical risk, risk assessment, data analysis, interpreting and working NICE guidance, National and Royal College Service Frameworks., assurance processes within the NHS i.e. CQC & NHS Resolution, patient/carer feedback processes
  • • Knowledge and competency in MS Office
  • • Ability to produce graphs charts and cross tabulations
  • • Have experience of using incident management database
Desirable criteria
  • Serious incident Management Investigation
  • Risk Management Training
  • Knowledge of human factors approach to incident investigations

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant clinical experience
  • Change management
  • Service improvement
  • Risk management processes
  • Incident reporting, investigation and analysis
  • Experience of developing and implementing quality strategies
  • Able to demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement
Desirable criteria
  • Previous leadership experience Professional leadership/ management qualification

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to analyse clinical information, organisational processes and proposed projects and to recommend the best course of action
  • Knowledge of and communicate relevant Government and Trust policy / strategy
  • Ability to judge how Clinical Effectiveness fits into the wider Governance agenda
  • Ability to identify problems and quickly report/act on them and support teams/individuals to find solutions

Planning and organisation skills

Essential criteria
  • • Able to work to, negotiate & co- ordinate deadlines in a variety of teams to meet local, Trust and National targets
  • • Time Management skills including the ability to prioritise, plan and manage a large workload
  • • Ability to work to variable work patterns that meet needs of the service and the wider divisional governance agenda
  • • Good organisational skills
  • • Able to work on own initiative

Physical skills

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to carry out clinical shifts when required
  • • Lift and move patients, and loads
  • • Keyboards skills

Other requirements specific to the role

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate resilience in relation to organisational working and with supporting teams/individuals following patient safety incidents

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria
  • Proven ability to negotiate, persuade, influence, motivate and gain the respect of other healthcare professionals
  • Ability to communicate complex information to colleagues in a clear and precise manner
  • Good presentation skills to support team training
  • Ability to manage contentious and sensitive information and must be able to handle this information appropriately/sensitively
  • Manage and lead those staff who report to them
  • Work within trust Human Resource policies in managing self and others
  • Ability to manage professional conflict within teams

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveDisability confident leaderArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Care Leaver CovenantNHS Rainbow badgeCareLeaver Covenantadded for NUH

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Cheryl Griffiths
Job title
Head of Nursing and Professions - Neonatal
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01159249924