Quality Assurance Lead

1 week ago

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

Job summary

Are You Ready to Elevate Your Leadership Journey?

Are you a leader with a proven track record of excellence? Do you have a passion for safety, quality, and making a real difference in healthcare? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you

Join Us as a Quality Assurance Lead

We are on the lookout for an exceptional leader to take the reins of our Quality Assurance Team. This is not just a job; it's a chance to showcase and further develop your outstanding leadership skills while driving meaningful improvements in patient care.

Is This You?

Outstanding Leadership Experience: You bring extensive, proven leadership skills to the table and are ready to take on a new challenge. Passion for Quality Care: You are deeply committed to safety and quality, and are driven to make a lasting impact in the healthcare sector. Relentless Focus: You have a relentless drive for excellence and are committed to sustaining and improving standards across the board.

Main duties of the job

Why This Role?

Lead with Impact: You will spearhead the effective delivery of the STAR Quality Assurance Framework, ensuring that our safety and quality standards are not just met, but continuously exceeded.

Collaborative Leadership: Work closely with nursing, midwifery, and allied health professional leaders, and take on the exciting challenge of supporting and deputising for the Quality Assurance Matron.

Drive Excellence: Your relentless focus on high standards will be key in ensuring that the STAR Framework drives continuous improvement across our organization.

Be a Role Model: As a highly visible leader, you'll set the bar for professionalism and accountability, representing the Quality Assurance Team and Matron in key safety forums and clinical areas.

About us

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 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The role of quality assurance lead is an important position that will ensure excellent standards of care for all patients at LTHTR.

Lead and co-ordinate the STAR Quality Assurance Framework, demonstrating drive and a relentless focus on high quality care standards

Demonstrate strong, highly effective leadership, leading the Quality Assurance Team and supporting the Quality Assurance Matron.

Respond to the demands of the role including dealing with conflict, challenging practice to meet standards of safety and quality and demonstrating highly effective negotiation skills

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

Demonstrate tenacious drive and attention to detail, robustly follow up on improvement actions and drive progress in any emerging or ongoing themes for improvement.

Analyse STAR data to produce high standards of reports 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.

Demonstrate a range of effective leadership approaches from collaborative to more directive, in response to any changing demands of the role.

Engage and 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Education

Essential

Registered health or social care professional Degree in health, social care or related subject

Desirable

Masters Degree or working towards a Masters in health, social care or related subject Leadership skills training Teaching skills/Qualification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

Experience of ward accreditation frameworks and quality improvement Proven extensive experience of team leadership and team development Significant experience in an acute hospital setting or relevant setting Experience of dealing with conflict, challenging practice to meet standards of safety and quality and highly effective negotiation skills Experience of using quality improvement techniques and methodology to drive change Experience of leading effective meetings, delivering presentations and educational training sessions.

Desirable

Working with a range of professionals across differing organisations and boundaries Awareness of recent developments within acute hospital practice Evidence of leading others in change management, able to demonstrate sustained improvements

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