Job summary
- Main area
- Screening Operations - Quality Assurance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-V&S-6461580-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- London / Leeds / Hybrid
- Town
- London / Leeds / Hybrid
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum (exclusive of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Quality Assurance Advisor - ANNB
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The post holder will work for the Screening Sub-Directorate in the Vaccination and Screening Directorate. The Directorate is responsible for discharging the NHS public health functions agreement, under which the Secretary of State delegates responsibility to NHS England for certain public health services, known as Section 7A services. This includes responsibility for around 20 immunisation programmes, 11 screening programmes and other services such as child health information services (CHIS).
The post holder has overall responsibility for a defined set of providers, working within a national screening portfolio team
The post holder will be required to work with a high degree of autonomy in support of the senior clinical lead (CPH) in the delivery of a comprehensive programme of quality assurance capable of maintaining and further developing, effective high quality screening.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to develop close liaison and communication with local screening programmes, provider organisations and commissioners in order to monitor organisations against minimum standards of service performance and quality across all elements of NHS Screening Programmes.
The post holder will work collaboratively with colleagues from other portfolio teams and nationally in order to promote consistency across national screening programmes and in the delivery of the quality assurance function.
The post holder must be able to operate independently with the capability to interpret, implement and provide specialist advice and will lead a team of Quality Assurance (QA) staff ensuring that all advice being given by that team is evidence based. The Senior QA Advisor will identify matters of particular complexity/sensitivity and know when to seek advice from professional clinical experts.
This role will involve working with colleagues across the directorate and in other directorates, leading or supporting agreed workstreams as appropriate. There will be a consistently close working relationship between members of the Quality Assurance team and portfolio teams, to provide subject matter expertise and support the delivery of the sub-directorate objectives.
The post holder will develop working relationships and communicate regularly with a wide range of individuals, clinical and non-clinical, internal and external to NHS England.
Working for our organisation
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key responsibilities include the following:
- Contribute to the development and implementation of the organisational plan to ensure regular and formal quality assurance of NHS screening programmes. Undertake service review/audit using national tools; make recommendations for service improvements and reporting outcomes from Quality Assurance (QA) processes. Monitor progress of visits and other QA interventions
- Manage the implementation of the QA cycle from self-assessment and pre-visit preparation, including the overall management of any visit programme
- Oversee the review and analyse self-assessment and key evidence submissions to develop consistent and appropriate briefs for sessional experts / professional and clinical advisors and any visiting review teams
- Undertake in depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports
- Ensure that reports are prepared on time and to an agreed standard and format following review visits.
- Advise national portfolio lead and national QA manager on matters relating to the specified programme/programme cluster, ensuring that where visits are undertaken, review teams provide accurate, appropriate feedback to commissioners, provider executive and programme teams on the findings of the review visit; highlighting any issues / concerns raised during the intervention
- Support the identification and sharing of best practice in screening quality assurance to support service improvement and improve outcomes for service users
These responsibilities are only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. You will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by the directorate.
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
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Person specification
Education / Training / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Mobility
Essential criteria
- National travel is required for the majority of NHS England roles
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in screening programmes in a quality assurance or related field
- Experience of working collaboratively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
- Demonstrable success in delivering change, monitoring performance and assessing risk
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Skills for delivering results through managing others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Essential criteria
- Commitment to equality of opportunity, focussed on removing barriers to full participation.
- Understands the importance of diversity and inclusion in delivering our role in the health and care system.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Lewis-Parmar
- Job title
- Consultant in Public Health - ANNB Screening
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07783 815576
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