Quality Assurance Lead

Are you a leader with a proven track record of excellence? Do you have a passion for safety, quality, and making a real difference in healthcare? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
Join Us as a Quality Assurance Lead
We are on the lookout for an exceptional leader to take the reins of our Quality Assurance Team. This is not just a job; it's a chance to showcase and further develop your outstanding leadership skills while driving meaningful improvements in patient care.
Is This You?
+ Outstanding Leadership Experience: You bring extensive, proven leadership skills to the table and are ready to take on a new challenge.
+ Passion for Quality Care: You are deeply committed to safety and quality, and are driven to make a lasting impact in the healthcare sector.
+ Relentless Focus: You have a relentless drive for excellence and are committed to sustaining and improving standards across the board., Why This Role?
+ Lead with Impact: You will spearhead the effective delivery of the STAR Quality Assurance Framework, ensuring that our safety and quality standards are not just met, but continuously exceeded.
+ Collaborative Leadership: Work closely with nursing, midwifery, and allied health professional leaders, and take on the exciting challenge of supporting and deputising for the Quality Assurance Matron.
+ Drive Excellence: Your relentless focus on high standards will be key in ensuring that the STAR Framework drives continuous improvement across our organization.
+ Be a Role Model: As a highly visible leader, you'll set the bar for professionalism and accountability, representing the Quality Assurance Team and Matron in key safety forums and clinical areas.

Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of., The role of quality assurance lead is an important position that will ensure excellent standards of care for all patients at LTHTR.
· Lead and co-ordinate the STAR Quality Assurance Framework, demonstrating drive and a relentless focus on high quality care standards
· Demonstrate strong, highly effective leadership, leading the Quality Assurance Team and supporting the Quality Assurance Matron.
· Respond to the demands of the role including dealing with conflict, challenging practice to meet standards of safety and quality and demonstrating highly effective negotiation skills
· Provide timely constructive feedback and support to nursing, midwifery and allied health professional (NMAHP) leaders and colleagues regarding the STAR quality assurance framework and key core standards
+ Demonstrate tenacious drive and attention to detail, robustly follow up on improvement actions and drive progress in any emerging or ongoing themes for improvement.
· Analyse STAR data to produce high standards of reports to improve the quality of care received by individuals using our services.
· Collaborate with ward and department leaders for the ongoing development of the STAR quality assurance framework to drive improvements in care.
· Develop effective and collaborative working with all colleagues including Governors and external partners.
· Demonstrate a range of effective leadership approaches from collaborative to more directive, in response to any changing demands of the role.
· Engage and work collaboratively with all teams, colleagues and NMAHP leaders.
· Lead in the review of quality assurance processes.
· To provide support and advice regarding all elements of quality assurance and always safety first workstreams.
· Review STAR improvement actions to ensure these are effective and completed
· Ensure the quality assurance framework is up to date, relevant and responsive to relevant legislation, policy and CQC regulations.
· Provide support and guidance to wards and departments who require additional support.
Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we're looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We'll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post. Our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available Here
To support you in your application process we've created a What we can offer you guide that shows what you can expect when you join our hospitals. The guide includes links to our strategic aims and objectives as well as our values, development support and rewards and benefits. To help you get the best from your application we've also put together two guides to help you make your application the best it can be. Just click here and here to go through them, or have them open as you complete your application.
We recognise that the recruitment process may present barriers for some and you may need personal adjustments to enable you to participate in our recruitment process. Please make contact with the recruitment team at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
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Secondments
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Young People
Please note a young person must be in part-time education or training until they're 18. therefore if you are under 18 we are unable to employ you on a full time basis, unless it is in an apprenticeship role.
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