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Liverpool Women's NHS FT became part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) in November 2024, following the coming together with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. UHLG was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide to our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, UHLG is also their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
At Liverpool Women's Hospital, each year we deliver approximately 7,500 babies, carry out around 50,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly and premature newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles, and conduct over 4,000 genetic appointments.
We believe that this, along with a strong dedication to research and innovation, makes us the specialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.
Job overview
In collaboration with the Hospital Leadership Team, provide highly visible leadership and direction to ensure that there are effective Quality Governance systems, implemented and devolved across the large, complex Hospital site, ensuring all risks are identified and managed via the Hospital's assurance framework processes.
The successful post holder will oversee and have responsibility for all elements of patient safety, clinical effectiveness and compliance for the Hospital site. An expert in the field, the post holder will be expected to provide pertinent, up-to-date professional advice and expert knowledge to the Hospital Director of Nursing and senior divisional management teams to support the successful delivery of corporate, professional, operational and clinical objectives.
Main duties of the job
1. The postholder will ensure that the Hospital complies with statutory, regulatory, contractual, and best practice requirements in relation to governance and quality, with effective assurance monitoring processes in place, through point of care to Hospital Assurance and Risk Group reporting and risk escalation processes.
2. The Assistant Director of Quality Governance is responsible for determining and leading the risk, legal, regulatory compliance, incident management and patient safety agenda within Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (LWH).
3. In line with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and in collaboration with the Patient Safety Learning Response Leads, the post-holder will have responsibility for investigation and the learning responses for the Trust's most serious incidents and the implementation of associated learning.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Educated to masters level or equivalent
* Evidence of continuing professional development to support the delivery of a senior role in quality governance
* Significant experience in a quality governance in a health care setting.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of managing governance at a senior level in a large, complex healthcare Organisation; including evidence of strategic development and significant senior management experience.
* Proven track record of leadership, managing redesign and organisational change within and across a large and complex organisation
* Proven experience of managing staff from a range of professional backgrounds within an Acute NHS environment and in developing clinical teams.
* Significant experience in managing quality governance including incidents and complaints management, clinical effectiveness and compliance.
* Experience of integrated governance systems across quality governance boundaries
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of current NHS policy and ability to develop strategies and policies and to implement them in practice
* Significant knowledge of statutory, regulatory requirements within governance in the NHS
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust has a responsibility and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and for ensuring that they are protected from harm. Every employee of the Trust has a responsibility and is duty bound always to act in the best interest of a child or adult about whom we may have concerns.
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