Job summary
- Main area
- n/a
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 186-1380-24-CS
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Duncan McMillan House
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £88,168 - £101,677 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Director of Quality
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Job overview
This is an incredibly exciting opportunity for someone who has extensive experience of mental health services to join the senior leadership team as Associate Director of Quality. The post holder provides senior leadership, oversight, and expert knowledge on the Quality agenda across the organisation, to ensure service user experience and quality is prioritised and characterize the work of the Trust.
This role is integral to ensuring the Trust’s compliance with legislation and national, local and Trust systems, frameworks, and standards. Provide strategic leadership for quality and clinical governance and ensure there are robust systems and processes in place including oversight of our regulatory and registration obligations, especially as these develop Ensure that the Trust is prepared for and embraces Care Quality Commissions (CQC) responsive and planned inspections with comprehensive management arrangements across operational and corporate services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is pivotal in liaison with other key professionals across the Trust, and functional heads within the Chief Nurse and the Executive Medical Directors, will lead standard setting, quality planning and improvements to ensure efficient, effective and high-quality standards of patient care are developed and sustained.
The Associate Director of Quality will support the Deputy Chief Nurse with outward facing elements of the quality agenda including working with the Integrated Care System (ICS), CQC and NHSE, Local Authority, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) and other provider organisations.
Working for our organisation
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In summary, key elements of responsibility within the portfolio of the post of Associate Director Quality include:
A core part of the Trust’s quality management system which includes quality planning, quality control, quality assurance, and quality improvement.
Lead the production of the Quality Account ensuring wide ranging involvement and coproduction, confirmation of quality priorities and reporting against nationally mandated indicators.
Provide professional visible leadership which inspires, motivates, empowers and embeds quality improvement across the whole Trust.
Lead and support the development of a culture of continuous improvement in patient care, driven by patients and carers.
We want to hear from people who are passionate about quality. Please contact [email protected] if you want any further information or an informal discussion.
Person specification
Training
Essential criteria
- • Formal leadership and management training.
- • Evidence of continuing professional development
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered Clinical Professional or Social Worker.
- • Master’s degree or equivalent level of practical experience
- • Further specialist training equivalent to post graduate doctorate in quality surveillance, governance and clinical effectiveness
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant experience as a clinician/social worker operating at a senior clinical level
- • Significant experience of management and leadership in a complex clinical environment.
- • Expert knowledge of mental health/or community physical health clinical services.
- • Successful track record of clinical practice and clinical supervision of nursing practice
- • Experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders.
- • Experience of presenting to large forums and chairing in sub board level committee meetings.
- • Experience of providing specialist advice, when required.
- • Broad experience in large multi-site, mutli disciplinary complex clinical settings.
- • Developing policies and strategies
- • Experience of complex case, quality review and investigation management.
- • Experience leading and influencing across a wide range of clinical staff.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of utilising appreciative inquiry to deliver change.
- • Working at Regional/National level
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Detailed knowledge Information Governance, Data Security, Data Protection, Caldicott Guidelines, Freedom of Information Act
- • Awareness of provider data, reporting, outcome measurement
- • Developed knowledge of local and national policy.
- • Theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of work procedures and practices
- • Finance and budgetary management.
- • Developed knowledge of People Management
Desirable criteria
- • Flexible in style and approach
- • Specialist knowledge over more than one discipline/function acquired over a significant period
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Able to deliver without direct line management control.
- • Ability to work within deadlines
- • Can demonstrate a high level of organisational skills and ability.
- • Ability to interpret complex data, distill and present to a range of audiences.
- • Can demonstrate effective communication style.
- • Can demonstrate highly developed verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- • Highly advanced presentation skills
- • Actively listens and engages.
- • Ability to negotiate, coach and manage in difficult situations, exercising judgement.
- • Exercise judgement involving highly complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
values
Essential criteria
- • All colleagues are expected to demonstrate at interview that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Belshaw
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
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