NHS England SW region is seeking a Deputy Director of Nursing & Quality. The postholder will directlymanagetheDirectCommissioningQuality and Safeguardingteam and be responsibleforquality management systems in relation to directly commissioned services.
As Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality for Commissioning, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across NHS South West Region, working in close partnership with regional colleagues, as well as across System Partners including ICBs, NHS and Independent Providers and, as necessary, Local Authorities.
The post holder will develop effective strategy and operational policies for promoting quality governance, improvement and innovation across Health and Social Care Systems and will contribute to the delivery of the NHS long-term plan workstreams.
Working closely with colleagues across the sector, ensuring coherent strategy, the post holder will:
• Drive the strategy for improvement, supporting and ensuring alignment across the system
• Drive, reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence
• Develop and communicate the vision for the role of innovation and the development of strategy and operational policies to support this vision
• Engage with key strategic Regional and National policy makers to inform development of strategy and policies
• Identify examples of National and International best practice and ensure that NHS England benefits from relevant innovations in healthcare
• Support improvement by developing the innovation infrastructure and capacity in organisations
• Develop and champion new initiatives or projects as necessary
• Work with Providers and Clinical Experts to design new training products
• Provide expertise of best practice methodologies, regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments and Stakeholders knowledge
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
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Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on theGovernment website.
• To work collaboratively across the NHS England national and regional teams, including integrating the National Director’s portfolio
• To work in a matrix way, acting as a system leader to support the delivery of the objectives of NHS England including quality, safety and patient experience
• To work as part of a dynamic team in delivering the objectives and priorities aligned to promotion of quality, safety, patient experience and engagement and supporting managers, clinicians and staff across the region and nationally. Working collaboratively, as part of the regional team, local delivery hubs and other regions
• Working with other commissioners and enabling a multi- professional contribution to commissioning high-quality care and a positive impact upon individual and population health
• Oversee quality of healthcare for children, young people and adults across the region’s secure and detained settings, which includes prisons, secure facilities for children and young people, police and courts, Liaison and Diversion services, immigration removal centres and sexual assault referral centres, maintaining the ‘principle of equivalence’ which means that the health needs of a population constrained by their circumstances are not compromised and that they receive an equal level of service as that offered to the rest of the population
• To hold providers to account for the quality of services across all services commissioned
• To be responsible for overseeing assurance and performance of patient safety events for those services commissioned directly by the NHS England
• To promote quality, innovation, productivity and prevention in health and health care services within the scope of one’s work and the work of others
• To lead on the negotiation, monitoring and assurance of delivery against agreed CQUIN schemes
• To safeguard children and adults and provide regional leadership, oversight and accountability for safeguarding within specialised commissioning and health and justice commissioned services.
• To provide clinical advice and leadership for nursing care and lead on quality, safety and patient experiencer.
• To promote quality, innovation, productivity and improve quality of care and patient outcomes, driving transformation though a large-scale change model
• To deliver the Quality Assurance Improvement Framework for directly commissioned services, driving improvements through the annual assessment process
• Contribute to national leadership including Individual Funding Request panels, Programme of Care Boards and Director of Nursing Forums
• To respond to the demands placed on quality assurance and patient safety in prisons, IRCs and the secure children’s estate, with regard to responses to deaths in custody, and with regard to reporting on the pressures impacting healthcare
This advert closes on Monday 9 Dec 2024