Job summary
Are you looking to make for a change and to make a difference?
Highly Competitive Salary Depending on Experience
Stevenage/Birmingham
Are you looking for the next step in your career with a growing company that can offer you lots of variety?
Main duties of the job
The RCI Group was set up in 2018 as a parent company to our group of companies and stands for Respect, Courage and Innovation. It brings together businesses who want to improve people's lives. When people hit a crisis point in their lives, they can often fall through the gaps between the services, and our businesses innovate to help fill those gaps and support people at the time when they need it the most.
RCI and its umbrella companies cover a diverse section of responsibilities including supporting Sexual Assault Referral Centres, Police Custody Suites across the country, Court Support Services, Safe and Secure Patient Transport, NHS data analysis, and more.
As we continue to grow, we are looking for a passionate, determined and resilient Head of Governance and Quality who wants to make a difference in the areas that we work in as well as within their career.
The Head of Governance and Quality role will specifically support our Prometheus (Birmingham) and Mountain Healthcare (Stevenage) businesses within the RCI Group, providing a full Governance and Quality remit to each business whilst helping to drive the businesses forward.
About us
Founded by passionate clinicians on a mission to provide expert patient-centred services, Mountain Healthcare leads the clinical forensic healthcare provisions sector in the UK. A premier partner of NHS England and the police, our unique provisions include Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs), Police Custodial Healthcare, Secure Estate Healthcare and clinical telephone advice. Driven by our values Be Kind and Do the Right Thing, Mountain Healthcare provides holistic and trauma-informed care that improves the immediate and long-term health outcomes of patients across the criminal justice system. Through innovative technologies and strategic partnerships, our expert clinicians ensure equal, effective and efficient services to all our patients and always put their health, safety and rights first.
Join the Best Provider, Make the Greatest Difference. Clinical forensic healthcare is a rapidly growing career path as demand for specialist critical services has greatly increased in recent years. At Mountain Healthcare, we understand that to provide the highest quality services for our patients and customers, our people must be the best in the field. We are proud to offer unrivalled staff training and development opportunities such as our unique Forensic Practitioner Gateway, our wide range of accredited and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses, and access to events across the health and justice sector.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Some key responsibilities include:
1. Supporting implementation of the National Patient Safety Strategy
2. Incident identification, incident closure, quality control, incident themes and trends
3. Oversight and co-ordination of patient safety alerts
4. Working with the relevant business leads to liaise with the CQC to coordinate CQC inspections and visits and the development of CQC compliance tools
5. Managing the external DPO and information governance provider
6. Providing expert governance resource and support to both businesses
7. Liaising across the businesses with the overall aim to use safety to improve our services
Benefits
1. Enhanced sickness pay scheme
2. Enhanced Maternity Pay after 1 year's service
3. 6 weeks annual leave
4. Pension Scheme
5. Bonus Scheme
6. Life Assurance
7. Well-being programme
8. Employee Assistant Programme
9. Counselling Service
10. Long Service/Above and Beyond Awards
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Previous experience working at this level is required along with a recognised industry qualification. The head offices are based at Stevenage and Birmingham, and so travel will be required along with hybrid working.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Mountain Healthcare Ltd
Address
Stevenage
Stevenage
SG1 2AD
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