Associate Director of Clinical Quality & Governance
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
To provide strong and visible leadership to integrate, coordinate and assure the effective governance of the Trust.
* To develop, lead on and be responsible for the Trust's systems of Quality Governance and Risk Management and report directly to the Director of Clinical Quality & Governance.
* The portfolio includes responsibility for patient safety, quality governance, risk management, clinical effectiveness and clinical compliance, ensuring Trust is fully compliant with our Duty of Candour, legal services, and Policy Management (evaluating assurance of and compliance with the Care Quality Commission requirements).
* To increase organisational leadership capability to demonstrate our culture of continuous improvement to ensure that the organisation can evidence that services are: safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led in accordance with the regulatory requirements and CQC inspection standards in partnership with the Compliance Manager.
* To report directly to the Director of Clinical Quality & Governance and work in close liaison with the programme director and clinical leads for the Quality First Improvement programme.
* To support the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF), supporting staff and patients, lead improvement programmes and lead the annual evaluation of PSIRF.
* To support leaders to articulate their actual focus on safety and quality improvement, supported by audit, shared learning and innovation.
Main duties of the job
To provide strong and visible leadership to integrate, coordinate and assure the effective governance of the Trust.
About us
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
* Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
* Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
* Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification. This is available to download at any time.
Person Specification
Education
* Education - Masters
Experience and Knowledge
* Senior leadership
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary
£74,290 to £85,601 a year plus 5% high cost area supplement.
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