Head of Primary Care Nursing and Quality

The Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (DDICB) is looking for an experienced Health Care Professional with experience of Primary Care committed to ensuring delivery of high quality patient-centred care to join our Integrated Care System.

The Primary Care Clinical Quality Lead will be responsible for ensuring the services commissioned by the DDICB meet clinical quality standards, statutory requirements and ensure people accessing services have the best possible experience. In so doing, the postholder will be responsible for the development and delivery of quality oversight systems and processes. This will include undertaking quality reviews and ensuring implementation of recommendations as well as championing innovation and recognised good practice to deliver continuous improvements in services.

With professional accountability to the Nursing Directorate of the DDICB, the Primary Care Clinical Quality Lead will ensure provision of high-quality patient-centre services, working collaboratively with a range of key colleagues within the ICB.

Main duties of the job

The focus of the role will be:

Responsibility for the development and delivery of quality oversight systems and processes;

Be the ICB quality lead for General Practice Quality Improvement Initiatives including general practice quality visiting programme.

Be the ICB Quality lead within Place Alliances; working collaboratively with system partners to support quality improvement initiatives.

Lead General Practice Nursing opportunities to support Recruitment, Retention & Leadership within general practice. Represent the General Practice Nursing workstream within local and regional training hub and GP leadership meetings.

Be the ICB Quality Lead for the development and delivery of a General Practice Nurse Strategy for Derby & Derbyshire.

Linking with stakeholders to support understanding of Quality Assurance and links to Quality Improvement/ Practice resilience. This includes Pharmacy Optometry and Dentistry and the DHU Healthcare Out of Hours Contract.

Attend and be an active participant in ICB and Provider quality meetings, ensuring appropriate governance is in place for addressing & escalating concerns; and that there is a continued focus on quality improvement.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, 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. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.