Quality Lead

**Quality Lead**:
**Band 7**:
**Main area**
- Quality Lead
- **Grade**
- Band 7
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-1327**Site**
- Carew House
- **Town**
- Bodmin
- **Salary**
- £41,659 - £47,672 Per Annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
We aim to be a great organisation providing great care, attracting and retaining fantastic people while being an excellent partner delivering best value high quality care. Could you be great at this role?

Are you passionate about quality and improving services to benefit patients and staff?

As part of our Integrated Care System, we are continuing to develop, transforming care across adult community services in our community hospitals and in people’s homes. We strive to work together as a system to deliver services that are place based and person centered. We actively seek to reduce inequalities and improve local population health outcomes.

We are looking for an innovative and enthusiastic individual focused on ensuring that quality improvement methodology is used to achieve continuous improvement and sustained change in service delivery. You will demonstrate an effective management, coaching and facilitation style, working restoratively within the compassionate leadership framework. You will proactively champion a culture where quality improvement is embedded in everyone’s daily life.

**Main duties of the job**:
The post holder will:

- Be responsible for a designated portfolio of quality and patient safety within adult community services.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement and patient safety.
- Monitor, interpret and present data to a high standard both verbally and in writing.
- Support regulatory compliance(Care Quality Commission).
- Have a key role in capturing and sharing learning, for example at the area Learning from Experience forum and across the organisation.
- Take a proactive lead role in understanding the experience of people who use our services and support co-design.
- Support/lead a range of clinical audits, collaborating closely with the Patient Outcomes and Clinical Effectiveness Lead co-producing action plans and monitoring outcomes for shared learning.
- Support/lead adult community services quality initiatives as required (for example CQUINS and the Quality account priorities) and attend monthly quality assurance meetings, preparing presentations and delivering data as required.
- Be aware of current research and how this can inform baselines for change work.
- Act as a role model, living the organisational values and aspirations.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.