Quality Improvement Practitioner

1 week ago

Northampton, United Kingdom NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board Full time

The Quality Improvement Practitioner will play a key role in the Quality Improvement team to monitor general quality and service delivery, patient safety and safeguarding regulations from service providers commissioned by Northamptonshire ICB, and proactively support service development.

This role will be focused on providing Quality assurance in line with the National Quality Board Standards where patient safety remains central to service delivery. This role will focus on the safety of services across Northamptonshire which may include Acute Provider Trusts, Nursing and Residential Homes, Independent Providers and Primary care.
- Management and monitoring of SI investigations.
- Collation of patient safety data.
- Development and implementation of a monitoring framework for measuring and reporting on the quality of patient safety within commissioned services.
- Act as the central point of contact, reporting all SIs to the SHA on behalf of independent providers.
- Monitor the reporting and progress of ongoing SI investigations and action plan implementation for commissioned services, including individual practitioners. Ensuring timely reporting in line with National guidance.
- Develop, maintain, and implement a monitoring framework and system of review for all SIs.
- Work with other members of the team to ensure that cluster policies, which are the remit of the Safeguarding & Quality Team, are maintained in line with National policy and guidance.
- Support the Quality & Safety Manager in the provision of SI training.
- Prepare regular monitoring and data reports in conjunction with other members of the team as required both for use within the department, NHS Milton Keynes & Northamptonshire and for other services.
- Identify themes and trends, including analysis for learning.

The Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a statutory body responsible for local NHS services, functions, performance and budgets. It is directly accountable to the NHS and is made up of local NHS trusts, primary care providers, and local authorities.

A detailed Job Description is attached and can be found in the 'documents' section. This document also includes a Person Specification.

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