Band 8c - Associate Director of Quality & Patient Safety

Job overview

Quality is a key priority for the trust, this post holder will have a key role in ensuring patient safety and will have direct line management responsibility for the harm free care team.

With a clinical leadership focus for all aspects of patient safety and clinical risk management and clinical governance; the post holder is expected to be one of the named patient safety specialists in line with the Patient Safety Response Framework.

Key workstreams which form part of the day-to-day responsibilities are:

• Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
• Support the development and operational translation of the patient safety/quality strategy, infrastructure and culture across the organisation
• Patient Safety Specialist
• Ward accreditation scheme
• Harm Free Care
• Quality Account
• Duty of Candour
• To provide quality assurance, ensuring the fundamentals of care are delivered effectively and efficiently against recognised best practice
• Support the Deputy Director of Nursing – Quality and Safety in working with external stakeholders to implement the governance framework relating to clinical quality and safety in the HCP and wider linking in with the ICB. This includes working across boundaries with health and social care organisations to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be skilled and have expertise as a qualified healthcare professional with NHS patient safety syllabus training. They must have knowledge of the Patient safety incident response framework as well as the function of the harm free care team; this includes falls prevention, pressure ulcer prevention, nutrition and hydration, continence management and VTE.

Having knowledge of quality governance and leadership skills in managing complex issues.  Experience in working in a patient safety, quality, risk management or clinical governance in addition to harm free care and ward accreditation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Core hours will be Monday to Friday.

The job responsibilities are to lead, enable and facilitate change on quality initiatives to support the delivery of key objectives and strategic goals driving quality and improvement.

The post holder will deputise for the Deputy Director of Nursing, Quality & Safety.

Day to day line management of the Harm Free Care Matrons.

Clinical input into the implementation and delivery of the PSIRF related activities and leading on learning responses to patient safety incidents as assigned.