Job Summary
Are you looking to make a change and to make a difference? Highly Competitive Salary Depending on Experience. Are you looking for the next step in your career with a growing company that can offer you lots of variety? Do you work within Governance and Quality and are looking for a change? Are you looking for the next step in your career? Do you want to work in a forensic healthcare setting that makes a remarkable, positive, and life-long difference to people's lives? If the answer to the above is yes, then this is the right role for you!
Here at Mountain Healthcare, we are looking for a passionate, determined, and resilient individual to join our amazing team. Mountain Healthcare covers 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.
Main Duties of the Job
Some key responsibilities include:
* Lead the development and implementation of innovative strategies to improve patient safety, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance.
* Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and accountability within the team and the wider organisation.
* Develop and deliver training resources in collaboration with operational teams to enhance patient safety knowledge and practice.
* Collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team, CQC Nominated Individual, and National SARC Director to coordinate CQC inspections, assessments, or visits, addressing findings and implementing improvements.
* Respond to CQC information requests.
* Develop and implement CQC compliance tools.
* Lead and oversee the organisation's compliance with UKAS accreditation standards, specifically ISO 15189, ensuring policies and procedures meet the required criteria by adhering and supporting the maintenance of ISO 15189 and the FSR Code of Practice compliance including post accreditation.
* Collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team, CQC Nominated Individual, and National SARC Director to coordinate internal audits and manage external UKAS (FSR) ISO 15189 inspections, assessments, or visits, addressing findings and implementing improvements.
* Respond to UKAS (FSR) information requests.
* Develop and implement UKAS (FSR) compliance tools.
* Maintain up-to-date knowledge of CQC regulations and UKAS accreditation requirements.
Please see the full Job Description attached.
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.
Company Benefits
* Enhanced sickness pay scheme
* Enhanced Maternity Pay after 1 year's service
* Well-being programme
* Advanced rota planning for better work-life balance
* 6 weeks annual leave
* Pension Scheme
* Bonus Scheme
* Life Assurance
* Employee Assistant Programme
* Long Service/Team of the Month Awards
* A range of accredited and CPD training courses and masterclasses
* Funding for higher education courses after one year's service
DE&I Mountain Healthcare aims to create and encourage an environment that is committed to promoting equality, diversity, working inclusively, and valuing the differences that individuals can bring to the workplace. We uphold these principles in our organisational values and behaviours towards each other and our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexuality, or other personal circumstances.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
* Registered Healthcare Professional (Nurse, Midwife, Paramedic etc.) with a valid Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) registration OR a Degree or equivalent level of qualification in a relevant subject OR proven relevant experience of working at a Senior Level in Healthcare or Quality or Governance.
Experience Essential
* 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.
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, SG1 2AD
Website: Mountain Healthcare
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