Band 8b Lead for Governance, Quality, Assurance

5 months ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham Full time

**Job summary**:
This is an exciting opportunity and a new key position within our Senior leadership team for a highly motivated person with substantial experience to be the lead for quality, governance, assurance and compliance.

We are looking for an innovative, committed person with exceptional communication skills who will lead with good example. Previous governance experience is essential and expert knowledge and experience will underpin oversight of the strategic and operational delivery in all aspects of quality assurance pertinent to the business of clinical governance within maternity that is safety centric.

Close working and liaison with multidisciplinary professionals to ensure triangulation of information and intelligence across the service, division and trust will be fundamental to support our teams and deliver our best service in a busy multi site maternity service providing care to women living in a broad and varied social demographic.

An informal visit and further conversation are strongly recommended.

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
The post holder will be responsible for:

- Providing support to the senior leadership team in the delivery of directorate wide, LMNS, regional and national initiatives.
- Reporting on matters for regulatory compliance, assurance, learning and quality improvement.
- Oversight and leadership of transformational work to ensure a continuous cycle of improvement for the service.
- Developing and delivering the quality & safety agenda.
- Identifying quality improvement and governance training requirements.
- Management responsibility.

**About us**:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

**Job description**:
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:
GCSE/ O Level - English and Maths

Grade C or equivalent

Educated to degree level or equivalent

**Desirable**:
Post graduate qualification or equivalent

experience

Recognised qualification in the field of

quality assurance, compliance and

governance or relevant experience

**Experience**:
**Essential**:
Substantial experience in a senior

managerial and leadership role within

an acute healthcare setting which is

commensurate with the complexity and

size of the allocated area of

responsibility.

Expert knowledge of Clinical Audit &
Effectiveness

Expert knowledge of CQC compliance

Good understanding of quality

improvement techniques-clinical audit,

risk management, complaints

Knowledge and experience of leading

significant change to patient services,

delivering tangible and sustained

improvements.

Experience of developing and

maintaining active partnerships with

stakeholders in the development of

services.

Experience of improvement

measurement systems and

understanding of the role of

measurement in performance

improvement

Experience of directly line managing

and providing strategic leadership t

large numbers of specialist staff/ multidisciplinary service teams ranging from

bands 3-7

Experience of managing individual and

team performance through the setting

of objectives, PDPs and appraisals.

recruitment strategies and workforce

development including undertaking

skill mix reviews and succession

planning.

Experience of using service redesigns

methodology.

**Additional Criteria**:
**Essential**:
Has a highly developed understanding

of the changing NHS environment and

its impact on service provision and

staff

Impact - uses a variety of methods to

gain support for ideas, strategies and

values

Understanding of how to use

technology to support delivery of

improvements to services

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