Clinical Lead for Quality Always

Clinical Lead for Quality Always, Clinical Assessment and Accreditation scheme CAAs
Are you a passionate and experienced clinician ready to lead and inspire continuous and positive change in healthcare quality
Seeking a Lead for our established Quality Always team, who will continue to lead the Assessment and Accreditation scheme as DCHS's central assurance tool; to champion high standards of care across DCHS and work imaginatively in the evolving integration of health and social care
In this pivotal role
Drive the assessment and accreditation framework helping teams to gain and sustain safe and quality care
Utilise Quality Improvement methods to enhance care delivery and team performance
Collaborate with leaders to identify improvement areas and celebrate successes
You will be responsible for the operational delivery of the assessment and accredited programme, providing leadership developing the skills of the team and providing senior support to clinical managers
Establish robust and rigorous assessment processes that evaluate and enhance care quality
Drive improvements to ensure safe high quality and personalised care for every patient accessing DCHS services
Foster a culture of excellence and sustainability in patient care outcomes
Support the utilisation and embedding of technology ensuring that our staff are supported to develop the skills and confidence to effectively utilise technology regarding local accreditation
Face-to-face interview 21^st Jan 2025, The clinical lead will be responsible for:
Maintaining overall responsibility to implement the Clinical Assessment and Accreditation scheme that provides robust and rigorous assessment processes throughout all clinical teams and services in order to ensure quality, safe care outcomes for patients.
Utilising their specialist knowledge of the local assessment and accreditation process to develop the organisational quality assurance process so that it is consistently aligned to both operational local and national developments
Using their experience and judgement in the analysis collation and interpretation of clinical information/data
Completing comprehensive reports which inform operational and strategic decision
Require highly developed interpersonal and influencing skills to ensure continuous improvement in the assessment and accreditation of quality standards in care settings within DCHS
Support and advise on service improvements required to sustain and develop local assessment and accreditation process
Develop and support quality improvements and safe patient care based on evidence based practice
Use a collaborative approach whilst maintaining motivation with key stakeholders and a wider range of Trust employees where introducing change may be challenging
Adapt approaches and make amendments when faced with providing scheduled and unplanned information requests/reports and assessment and accreditation activity

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.
We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations., Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (DCHS) is one of the largest providers of specialist community healthcare in England and we currently employ around 4,500 staff. We deliver a variety of services across Derbyshire, caring for nearly 1.8 million patients each year.
We deliver patient care through 11 community hospitals, 4 minor injury units, 29 health centres and a learning disability centre. Another key part of our service is out in the community where we care for people in their own homes via therapists, health visitors and district nurses, and promoting public health in the wider community. As a Trust we care for patients of all ages with a special focus on the needs of elderly people and the very young.
DCHS has been recognised as a top 10 NHS organisation to work for in the UK by the Health Service Journal and NHS Employers in their Best Places to Work 2015 campaign. The Trust is also the runner-up in the category for the best NHS community trust employer.

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Our vision "to be the best provider of local healthcare and to be a great place to work"
Our values:
1) To get the basics right
2) To act with compassion and respect
3) To make a difference
4) To value and develop teamwork
5) To value everyone's contribution because everyone matters

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for our service and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.