Quality Assurance Lead

6 months ago


Preston, United Kingdom Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Lead to join our exceptional team here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. You will support the Quality Assurance Matron and lead the Quality Assurance Team to ensure highly effective delivery of the STAR Quality Assurance Framework and associated safety and quality improvement workstreams.

Working with nursing, midwifery and allied health professional leaders and colleagues, you will also be responsible for ensuring that the STAR Quality Assurance Framework effectively ensures our key core standards continuously improve. You will also follow up on safety and quality themes and learning from STAR to continuously drive standards across the clinical areas.

You will demonstrate visible leadership and be a strong role model, representing the Quality Assurance Team within the divisional always safety first forums and across all clinical areas.

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. Analyze STAR data 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. Provide advice and support regarding all elements of the quality assurance process, ensuring safety first workstreams are prioritized.

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 that require additional support. Promote best practice throughout the Trust by role modeling and enabling NMAHP colleagues and others to fulfill their defined roles and responsibilities.

Work closely with NMAHP leaders and educators to continually improve services for patients. Demonstrate high levels of performance and conduct at all times, setting clear expectations for others to do the same.

Demonstrate compassionate leadership skills to support staff by communicating highly sensitive, contentious, and complex information.

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.

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

Analyse STAR data 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

Able to demonstrate a range of leadership approaches from collaborative to more directive

Provide advice and support regarding all elements of the quality assurance process

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.

Promote best practice throughout the Trust by role modelling and enabling NMAHP colleagues and others to fulfil their defined roles and responsibilities.

Work closely with the NMAHP leaders and educators with regards to continually improving services for patients.

Demonstrates high levels of performance and conduct at all times and sets clear expectations of others to do the same

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