Quality Assurance Facilitator | NHS England

The Vaccination and Screening Directorate (V&S) 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. These include around 20 immunisation programmes, 11 screening programmes and other services such as child health information services (CHIS), some of which are led Health and Justice national commissioning team. Working as a multi-disciplinary team, we work across the NHS and wider partners to design and deliver the best possible services. The directorate is collectively responsible for the delivery of our mission statement: To deliver maximum levels of uptake and coverage across the whole population within and between communities, improving health outcomes, avoiding harm, enabling earlier diagnosis and helping people to stay well, leaving no-one behind. Applications are invited for a Quality Assurance (QA) Facilitator role within the Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Screening and Diabetic Eye Screening (DES) portfolios. As a QA Facilitator you will be required to assist in the coordination and oversight of the QA ofcomprehensive programme of quality assurance forAAA and DES programmes, stimulating, and facilitating programme specific QA activity. Main duties and responsibilities will include:

• Providing expert advice and guidance and delivering quality assurance and improvement activities to screening providers.
• Providing senior management level support to and deputise in the absence of the QA Managers and Deputy Managers across the full range of QA activities.
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., NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you'll usually need to be paid the 'standard' salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the 'going rate' for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on theGovernment website.
• Contributing to the development of local AAA and DES screening services while building and managing relationships with providers and commissioners of local screening programmes.
• Supporting senior QA staff in developing policies, methods, and tools for quality assurance.
• Providing support to local AAA and DES screening services through regular communications and meetings.
• Working with senior staff to address screening incident identification, management, and resolution for AAA and DES screening services
• Ensuring that visits/reviews of local AAA and DES screening services are conducted effectively, on time and by appropriate and trained reviewers.
• Interpreting data and information to monitor performance and highlight issues of concern.
The post holder will be able to make decisions or recommendations to senior staff, when required. They will be capable of working to tight and often changing timescales and knowing when and how to seek advice from senior QA staff members. The post holder will have the ability to handle difficult and controversial issues with tact and diplomacy. The post holder will have report-writing and analytical skills they can use to support local screening services. They will have an understanding of the principles of population-based screening programmes in the UK with experience of quality management and audit. 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. If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today. You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.