Assistant Director of Integrated Governance

7 months ago


Tameside, United Kingdom Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Band 8C
Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

We are offering this exciting opportunity for this senior role which supports the delivery of the Trust’s safety governance and role objectives.

You will have significant experience working in a senior position with a comprehensive understanding of Health Service Governance, Safety and Regulating requirements.

Working with the Deputy Chief Nurse, Division, and members of the Executive Team you will have the ability to develop corporate policy, strategy and to prepare board level reports.

We are looking for an inspirational leader who will lead with compassion, developing a skilled, knowledgeable and capable team who work together to support delivery of the Trust’s aims.

The post holder will lead the integrated governance and patient safety agenda across the Trust driving accountability, improvement and innovation. The post holder will provide compassionate and collaborative senior leadership, visibility and expert support to integrated governance and the patient safety work within the organisation.

This role leads the development of a patient safety culture and safety systems and requires sufficient seniority to engage directly with the Executive team, Divisional Directors, Clinical Directors and other senior leaders across the organisation.

This role will have accountability for implementing the most effective approaches to improving patient safety understanding, involvement and improvement activity and ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in all
processes. This includes ensuring that the Trust has effective processes in place that link effectively to national safety systems. This role includes supporting the organisation to ensure that the patient is at the centre of all patient safety activity.

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
Safety

Care

Respect

Communication

Learning

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Knowledge and Skills**:
Highly developed communicate skills ensuring effective relationships with clinical teams and managers (corporate and operational directorates). This includes communicating highly complex and sensitive information that can be of a contentious nature.

Lead and manage projects and produce management and assurance reports for committees

Communicate effectively and influence people with opposing views, and respond appropriately to the unpredictable and unacceptable, explain proposals to clinical teams and managers in an honest and transparent way

Communicate effectively in writing, producing clear, concise policy and guidance

Ability to present to both small and large groups, presenting at conferences to share good practice, tailoring presentations to the audience in terms of complexity and delivering key messages.

Ensures any communication is appropriate to level of understanding, culture and background of individual patients, carers, visitors or staff

Demonstrate empathy when communicating, particularly with staff, patients and families as part of serious incident investigations.

Ability to interpret changes to national guidance and regulations relating to quality and patient safety and communicate this to the organisation

Ability to plan a broad range of complex activities and work programmes relating to quality improvement, working with clinical and corporate teams

Ability to engage with patients, families and service users directly on sensitive issues that arise through patient safety incident investigations

Ability to communicate effectively in writing, producing clear, concise policy and guidance

Training and Experience

Educated to Master’s level or able to demonstrate equivalent extensive experience resulting in specialist knowledge, particularly in project management, quality improvement or workforce re-design.

Knowledge of national policy, legislation and requirements with regard to clinical effectiveness, quality improvement, assurance and regulation with particular;
Knowledge of national policy, legislation and re



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