Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)
Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.
We are looking to appoint a talented leader who will have a key role in coordinating and managing the quality assurance systems and leading 2nd party assurance, as part of governance and assurance structure in Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC).
This is a full-time, permanent position offering 37.5 hours a week. Offers to work part-time will be considered, depending on business needs.
Main duties of the job
As a member of the Regional Headquarters (RHQ) DPHC team, the position holder will work remotely, within the defined geographical area, supporting the medical, dental, rehabilitation, mental health and occupational health teams deliver care to the military and entitled population. This is an excellent opportunity for you to develop and implement plans on a cross system basis. You will provide expertise and understanding of various components of clinical quality (safe, effective, responsive, well led and patient centred care).
A key focus of the role will be to ensure diligent management of assurance systems and ensure effective relationships with service clinical leads across the geographical area of responsibility. This post requires tenacity, well-developed technical knowledge and practice to maintain an organisational influence that will positively develop our ability to sustainably deliver high quality care.
Job responsibilities
As the successful candidate your duties include, but are not limited to:
* Act as the Assurance Team Lead on the 2nd party assurance of DPHC United Kingdom (UK) based facilities, including the timely completion of the assurance report and recommendations.
* Coordinate the 2nd party assurance of the DPHC facilities within the post holder's defined geographical AOR.
* Ensure that 2nd and 3rd party assurance reports, on facilities within the post holder's defined geographical area, have action plans developed, monitored to ensure improvement outcomes, and lessons are shared and implemented across the AOR.
* Ensure the effective and timely investigation and analysis of patient safety incidents within the Area of Responsibility (AOR) to ensure that lessons are identified, learned, and are shared.
* Management, monitoring and analysis of quality assurance systems, including, but not limited to patient safety, patient experience (including complaints), stakeholder experience, clinical audit, assurance outcomes, and Common Assurance Framework standards, identifying trends, areas for improvement and sharing of best practice.
* Support the delivery of training for facilities and DPHC personnel in patient safety, analysis of events when things go wrong, risk management, patient experience, quality improvement, clinical audit and risk management.
* Co-ordination and preparation of quarterly reports and supporting evidence, on behalf of the Band 8A Patient Safety, Governance and Innovation Lead.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for additional job duties and responsibilities.
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Competencies:
NHSC1 - Communication
NHSC2 - Personal and People Development
NHSC3 - Health Safety and Security
NHSC4 - Service Improvement
NHSC5 - Quality
NHSC6 - Equality and Diversity
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, qualifications, and memberships in your CV and that you have saved it using your surname then first name prior to submitting your application.
There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.
Requests to work flexibly will be considered, taking into account business needs.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.
The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.
Please ensure you have read all the details in the important information link prior to applying.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* A degree in healthcare or equivalent experience.
* Active participant in Continuous Professional Development
* Full Driving Licence
Registrations & Memberships
* Professionally Registered with GMC/NMC/HCPC/GDC
* Please provide your membership registration number. You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
Provide a CV
* Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question. You will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment. Please ensure you refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included. Please use double spacing where possible.
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.
Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)
£46,148 to £52,809 a year pro-rata for part time.
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