Assistant Head of Quality Governance

A new exciting leadership role has been created within the Goodall's Quality Governance Team supporting services to improve the safety and quality of their clinical services. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to support the Head of Quality Governance and lead on quality, safety and assurance initiatives across the division. Please note that this role will involve travel across all sites in Goodall Division.Main duties of the jobThe post holder will work as part of the Divisional Quality Governance team leading on the safety and the quality governance agendas across the division. The post holder will also support other safety improvement work across the division. The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.About usGoodall Division is our largest division in the Trust which will offer the opportunity to gain expertise across a wide range of services as follows:
CAMHs community (across 5 London Boroughs) and two inpatient units Eating Disorder (community and inpatient service) Community Health Adult and Children's Services in Hillingdon, Camden, Harrow, Ealing and Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Hillingdon Mental Health (inpatient and community) Inpatient MH Rehabilitation (Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon, Westminster and Surrey)
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings. Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Support with the implementation of The NHS Patient Safety Strategy to develop an improved safety culture across the division Implement the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework across the division alongside the Divisional Head of Governance ensuring staff are supported to improve the quality of their incident recording and use incident data to identify early learning from incidents. Improve reporting arrangements so that clinical staff have real-time insight into the quality and safety of the services they provide. Oversee the development of Divisional Assurance Review Team visit program and night review schedule across the division whereby services are reviewed annually to identify good practice and where quality and/or safety concerns may exist in services. Involve service user representatives and Patient Safety Specialists in this work.
Person SpecificationKnowledge/SkillsEssential
Ability to undertake clinical audit projects and incident investigation Ability to work in isolation but also as part of a team Interpersonal skills Analytical skills Able to write complex reports Communications skills including good presentation skills Managing complexity Prioritisation skills IT literate (intermediate level) in word, excel, power point Group working skills Facilitation Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands Project management skills
Knowledge, Skills And AbilitiesEssential
Experience with incident reporting systems Experience of working autonomously and on own initiative Experience of delivering to deadlines. Experience of analysing, interpreting and presenting data Experience of writing reports and presenting data to diverse audiences. Experience of team working Experience of change management and putting ideas into practice Project management experience or equivalent. Significant relevant experience in quality governance Experience of working within the NHS.
Desirable
Health / Social Sciences degree Experience of using statistical software packages, such as SPSS Experience of Quality Improvement Science methodology Experience of using questionnaire design packages. Experience of developing and delivering training Experience of managing or supervising staff.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONSEssential
Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
Desirable
Health / Social Sciences degree
Employer detailsEmployer nameCentral and North West London NHS Foundation TrustAddressGordon Hospital Bloomburg Street London SW1V 2RHAny attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. 333-G-M-#####
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