Associate Director of Quality Governance

Following the retirement of the current post holder, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a 6-month secondment to the role of Associate Director of Quality Assurance at Whittington Health NHS Trust.
The Associate Director of Quality Assurance is band 8C and a full-time role based at the Whittington Hospital site. The post holder is responsible for the delivery and leadership of integrated governance, quality and patient experience across the Trust.
We are inviting expressions of interest from candidates with strong leadership and a knowledge of integrated governance and quality, including patient safety, (PSIRF), clinical effectiveness, regulatory and compliance systems, maintaining effective communication with regulators, including the CQC and quality improvement. Candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience of improving patient safety, integrated governance systems and an understanding of the CQC and other regulatory systems.
The post holder will be expected to provide assurance that appropriate systems, processes and relationships are in place to ensure high quality and are effective and maintained.
We look forward to welcoming enquires and applications from applicants with a passion for patient safety and experience, a commitment to provide high quality leadership and role modelling to the governance team, and a willingness and desire to learn.
The post holder will be line managed by the Deputy Chief Nurse, The post holder will develop appropriate systems, processes and relationships to ensure high quality, safe and effective services are operational and effective and l e a d o n the strategic development of integrated governance and quality improvement, whilst offering a high level of professional and operational support across the Trust.
The post holder will take the organisational lead in developing, constantly reviewing and implementing the Trust's risk management and its risk management strategy including incident reporting, serious incident reporting, duty of candor and compliance as well as Regulatory business processes and other risk and regulatory corporate policies to ensure appropriate risk and regulatory management arrangements are in place and are regularly reviewed and updated.
They will also take the organisational lead in delivering the Trust's quality improvement strategy in conjunction with the clinical lead for quality improvement

Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work., Provide strong visible quality governance leadership in partnership with the executive and ICSU leadership teams.
Develop and maintain effective working relationships with key external stakeholders including the Care Quality Commission, commissioners and colleagues across the health and social care economy, demonstrating political awareness with the ability to effectively discern the most appropriate communication.
Communicate using a varied range of techniques and methods to effectively work with and influence a range of stakeholders both within the Trust and external stakeholders.
Ensure that the principles of robust integrated governance are embedded and operational within all corporate, departments and ICSUs.
Liaise closely with executive and ICSU leadership teams in the implementation of quality governance, patient safety and risk management and assurance systems including effective planning cycles to improve safety and quality across the Trust.
Responsible for the management of the budgets within the overall quality governance team
Responsible for overall management of the quality governance team, personally reflecting the values and behaviours and leading by example.
Ensure effective planning and cover arrangements exist to maintain operational resilience within the team and maintain effective governance for the Trust.
Directly line-manage the leads for patient experience, patient safety, quality improvement and clinical effectiveness.
Provide high quality leadership and role modelling to the quality governance team. Ensure provision of effective and timely expert, high quality support and guidance
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
+ Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
+ Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
+ Participate in required training and supervision.
+ Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form -
1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes -
1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information -
+ Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
+ Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
+ In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

NHS AfC: Band 8c
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