Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
* Are you looking for your next career challenge?
* Do you have a passion for patient care?
* If you want a change in career path and have adaptable skills, this post might be the role for you.
Joining our team welcomes a 10% of your starting salary 'Welcome to MPFT Bonus' - 5% will be paid on appointment, and the further 5% after 12 months service with the Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and exceptional Mental Health Quality Lead to support the continuous improvement programme by working collaboratively with teams and colleagues to achieve sustainable improvements. As the Lead Provider for both the Adult Eating Disorders and Perinatal Mental Health Provider Collaborative, we are responsible for the quality oversight of the inpatient wards across the West Midlands region.
The wards are in Stafford, Birmingham, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. The team carries out annual quality reviews and also visits the wards throughout the year, so the ability to travel is required for the role. You must have experience of working in mental health services (for example a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist) and be familiar with ward environments.
If you would like to discuss the role prior to applying, please contact Melanie Watson, Director of Provider Collaboratives and Partnerships via email at melanie.watson@mpft.nhs.uk or phone 07980 737011.
Main duties of the job
1. Directly support against the requirements of the Quality Maturity Framework.
2. Oversee the annual Quality Review Programme to all the Adult Eating Disorders and Perinatal Mental Health wards across the West Midlands.
3. Develop internal systems and monitoring which ensure that specialised commissioning through the Lead Provider responds appropriately to, and learns effectively from, a range of information sources including complaints, serious incidents, and patients' experience of health care across the commissioned providers.
4. Oversee the day-to-day management of the quality monitoring processes for adult eating disorder and perinatal mental health services within agreed standard operating procedures.
5. Attend the provider contract meetings and lead the clinical quality contract meetings.
6. Take a lead with the new meetings as part of the governance arrangements such as the Clinical Governance meeting, lessons learned meeting, clinical network, quality & SI review meeting, and weekly quality & safety meetings.
7. Share and embed lessons learnt and develop monthly quality surveillance and direct commissioning reports.
8. Ensure policies and procedures support and reflect the activities and responsibilities outlined above.
9. Oversee the Patient Safety Incident Review Framework (PSIRF) process.
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return for this, we will support you by:
* Supporting your career development and progression.
* Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
* Options for flexible working.
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources.
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate.
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI, and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates.
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k.
* Free car parking at all trust sites.
* Free flu vaccinations every year.
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation, and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Job responsibilities
The purpose of the role as Quality Lead for the West Midlands Adult Eating Disorders and Perinatal Mental Health Provider Collaboratives is to directly oversee and monitor the quality and safety aspects of the specialised mental health services, commissioned through MPFT as Lead Provider, including the quality assuring of such services within the West Midlands region. The person will work closely with the quality & governance team within the Lead Provider (LP) as well as maintaining strong links with the NHSE regional quality team. The role is integral in ensuring that Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust meets its Quality Assurance responsibilities and accountabilities as Lead Provider for both Adult Eating Disorders and Perinatal Mental Health.
The NHS Long Term Plan sets an ambition for all appropriate specialised mental health services and learning disability and autism services to be managed through Provider Collaboratives over the next five years.
The Lead Provider's role will involve understanding their local population and empowering local clinicians and Experts by Experience to design improved pathways of care. The Lead Provider will sub-contract other providers, manage contracts, assure the quality of mental health services, and lead the necessary reporting regionally and nationally to NHS England and Improvement.
Person Specification
* Registered Mental Health practitioner i.e., Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Allied Healthcare Professional.
* Experience of working with service users with mental health conditions.
* Experience of applying QI / Lean or other quality improvement systems across numerous pathways.
* Training in Quality improvement in Healthcare.
* A working knowledge of regulatory (for example CQC Framework and contractual requirements associated with the delivery of Trust services).
* Training in Quality improvement in Healthcare.
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.
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Director of Provider Collaboratives & Partnerships
Full-time, Job share, Flexible working, Home or remote working
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