Head of Quality & Governance

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Rennie Grove Peace Hospice, St Julians, St. Albans

Full time
Permanent
Onsite working

Posted 2 weeks ago, 16 Oct | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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Rennie Grove Peace Hospice

Full Job Description

Support the Director of Quality, Governance & Impact to deliver high-quality services across Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care (RGP) in line with the organisation's strategic objectives ensuring systems and processes are in place to demonstrate quality outcomes.
Provide independent assurance on organisation wide regulatory and legal requirements.
Developing and monitoring audits of RGP clinical and non-clinical practice through a robust and effective governance framework.
Lead the development and implementation of quality improvement initiatives within the governance framework to ensure services meet national standards and are compliant with CQC, Charity Commission and other regulatory bodies.
Provide expert professional leadership and advice on the delivery of high-quality care and good governance to all RGP service areas.
Manage the Quality & Governance team, taking responsibility for ensuring all areas of the service are delivered and effective, while addressing concerns and taking immediate actions when required.
Deputise for the Director of Quality, Governance & Impact when required., Working closely with all senior leads across the organisation to ensure effective achievement of high-quality services in both clinical and non-clinical areas.
Ensure all leads comply with the governance functions of RGP, addressing any concerns as they arise and supporting leads to rectify areas of concern.
Working closely with the Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) & Senior Clinical Team (SCT) to embed all aspects of clinical governance & quality.
Contributing to the development of organisation policies and ensuring procedures and guidelines are complete, current, evidence based and catalogued.
Developing the clinical and non-clinical audit programme, ensuring robust systems are in place, analysing the results and ensuring recommendations to develop services and practice are implemented.
Working with senior managers and statutory leads ensuring standards and legislative requirements are met and accurate records kept.
Ensuring strategies are in place to deliver measurable and sustainable improvement in quality and safety across all RGP services, in line with best local and national practice.
Working with the CCO & CLT agree standards of care and training needs to achieve improved quality outcomes, demonstrate impact, linking with the clinical audit and care quality commission requirements.
Ensuring the Clinical Governance Committee, Risk & Audit Committee and associated groups are well informed and operate effectively within the organisation's governance model.

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we're all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life-limiting illness (and those who care for them), to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life-limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. Its important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people.