Quality Lead Practitioner

4 days ago


Cannock, United Kingdom The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with exceptional organisational skills, drive and motivation to lead on the Quality Standard for Imaging (QSI) accreditation for both our newly opened Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at Cannock Chase Hospital and our primary Radiology Services at New Cross Hospital.

You will work with, and be supported by, an open and responsive team of Radiology Managers; all with previous clinical backgrounds in Diagnostic Radiology, who are passionate about quality and excellence.

This role will allow the successful candidate to develop and influence positive and meaningful change within the service for both our patients and workforce; contributing to the already strong quality and governance framework within the department.

Applicants should have significant experience of a Radiology service and should demonstrate strong awareness of relevant National Quality and Safety Standards, IRR 17, IRMER 17, Quality Standard for Imaging (QSI) , Care Excellence Framework (CEF), CQC and NHS Resolution (NHSR) requirements.

Main duties of the job

To act as a lead in supporting the Directorate in driving and embedding quality within the culture of the Imaging Department, influencing behaviour, ensuring, and maintaining high standards of patient experience, care and best practice.

To work as part of the Imaging Directorate Governance Team with a specific focus on ensuring that the department meets the QSI accreditation requirements for imaging. This will involve ensuring that high standards and robust governance is implemented and maintained across all modalities of the Imaging service, providing assurance of compliance with all relevant National Quality and Safety standards.

Identifying gaps in evidence will be an essential part of the role as will working with and providing support to modality teams to ensure that documentation is developed, collated, and ratified in a timely manner in a standardised format to meet requirements within set timeframes.

To oversee Imaging's continuous audit programme and provide support to modality teams in developing and embedding robust audit processes and the delivery of Key Performance Indicators.

Supporting and managing the Directorate's risk management processes working alongside the Radiology governance team and other Directorates to ensure that incidents and risks are managed in a timely manner. Identifying trends and working with modality teams to develop quality improvement processes to reduce risk and improve quality of care for patients.

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of this role and its requirements, please see the attached Job Description and Peron Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Professional Degree level Qualification (appropriate to Imaging) HCPC or professional body registration

Desirable

Trained as a QSI assessor

Experience

Essential

In fewer than 200 words, please describe your understanding of QSI accreditation and the process for achieving this Extensive clinical working knowledge of an Imaging Service

Analytical and Organisational Skills

Essential

Please describe your knowledge of incident reporting systems and RCA processes (150 words or fewer) Please give an example of how you have managed your time effectively when there are competing time pressures. (150 words or fewer) Please give examples of quality control, standardisation and assurance monitoring in relation to documentation created to support quality.

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