Head of Quality

Description:

Finegreen are supporting an NHS organisation in London, to appoint a Head of Quality working within the Clinical Governance Division. The post is for an interim period of 3-6 months, with an hourly rate of £53.28, inside IR35 through an Umbrella Solution.

The post holder will hold responsibility in the organisation’s quality team for a substantial area of care leading in the development, interpretation, implementation and overall policy and strategy for this area quality.

Key responsibilities will include:

Play a lead role in the development, interpretation, implementation and monitoring of all areas relating to quality in their lead area but also across pathways and looking forward to developing the way of working within the Integrated Care System;
Lead the delivery of discrete quality products, such as Quality Profiles of providers, Quality Reports and review processes, reporting and monitoring systems, and support for development of smaller providers;
Contribute effectively to the organisation and, where appropriate borough base improvement programmes particularly in relation to clinical service redesign;
Manage the Quality team in the area of focus;
Work with the Director of Quality and the Associate Director of Quality to develop and effective way of working with quality leads and borough based leads to oversee all aspects of clinical quality, including oversight of provider quality issues, serious incidents, never events, patient safety and patient experience;
Highly developed interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills effectively engaging a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, at commissioner and provider levels facilitating the achievement of the organisation’s strategic priorities;
Contribute to the strategic work on quality of the organisation and work in partnership with colleagues to ensure achievement of objectives;
Lead on quality improvement and surveillance for an area of focus (primary and community, mental health or acute based care).
The ideal candidate will have:

Must have extensive expertise working within the NHS at a senior level;
Management qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant field;
Experience of managing the delivery and improvement of highly sensitive services within a complex and diverse organisation;
Experience of managing risk and developing mitigation plans;
Experience of leading teams of professional staff within a performance management culture;
Good understanding of MS Office, databases such as Datix and STEIS;
Good leadership influencing, negotiating and interpersonal skills.
If you are interested in the role, please contact Ria Healy on (phone number removed) and send a copy of your updated CV to (url removed) along with your availability and rate