Job Summary The Quality Lead will lead the response to both clinical and corporate risk. The postholder will work across the hospital and be responsible for supporting the delivery of the patient safety and quality improvement strategy to create a patient safety culture that focuses on high quality care standards, preventing avoidable harm and using evidence best practice, lessons learned and data to identify themes, and areas for improvement. The post holder will promote patient safety and contribute to the development of organisational learning and improvements in clinical risk and patient safety at service and organisational level. This will be done by promoting a culture in which reporting of incidents and learning from incidents is routine practice and is recognised by staff as a means of improving the quality of decisions. The Quality lead will support the Senior Leadership Team and Department Managers to discharge their responsibility to manage risk and ensure comprehensive investigations are carried out and result in sustained change and improvement to patient care. The post holder will deputise for the Clinical Lead (Matron) as directed and appropriate. Key tasks Lead the clinical audit programme and provide assurance of the quality and safety of the services provided by the Trust. Lead and develop the Trusts quality strategy and agenda. Work with the Clinical Lead (Matron) and other clinical managers to develop clinical guidelines, policies and procedures relating to the clinical services provided by the Trust. Use expert knowledge, practice and critical judgement skills to continuously seek to identify and develop areas where current practice could be modified to improve patient outcomes. Ensure clinical and non-clinical incidents are reported in accordance with the Trusts risk management policy and patient safety incident reporting framework (PSIRF). Have oversight of improvement action plans in response to identified risks. Maintain oversight of the Trusts risk register ensuring that risks are reviewed in accordance with the Trusts risk management policy and updated continuously.