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Job overview

We are excited to offer a new opportunity for a passionate Quality and Compliance Manager to join our Audiology team. This role is pivotal in ensuring that our patients receive the highest standard of care, and we are seeking an individual who shares our commitment to excellence.

• Data Management: A love for data and its meticulous management is essential. Your role will involve collection, collation, and submission of quality and audit data.
• Communication: You will have excellent communication skills to effectively report and share your work.
• Trust Values: Embracing our Trust values is crucial. We prioritize our patients and you must recognize the human element behind the data.
• IQIPS & Accreditation: You will manage and support projects to meet the requirements of the IQIPS (Improving Quality in Physiological Services) scheme, an accreditation program managed by the UK Accreditation Service, UKAS. You will be instrumental in ensuring the service attains and maintains accreditation. 
• Digital Support: You will be required to manage System and Application upgrades and provide general IT support.

Working Pattern: The position offers the potential for a hybrid working pattern, blending on-site presence with the flexibility of remote work.

Join Us: If you are enthusiastic about quality management and compliance, and you’re looking for a role where your work directly impacts patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

1. To develop and maintain tools, systems and reporting methodologies to manage Audiology information and data.
2. To report on and monitor compliance against IQIPS standards.
3. To prepare dashboard data and service summaries to meet Audiology’s reporting requirements. 
4. To identify service improvement, development or change as evidenced by data analysis and UKAS requirements.
5. To be responsible for the monitoring and validation of statutory Audiology waiting time data (DM01) and provide assurance of data quality.
6. To identify potential diagnostic breaches, provide analysis of activity and seek resolution of issues/’blockages’ within the statutory timeframe standards.
7. To manage system upgrades throughout the Audiology Service.
8. To work closely with the Digital Team to provide support to the Audiology Service.

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton.  Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.

Our Values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

 

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.