Clinical Lead for Quality Always

Job overview

Clinical Lead for Quality Always, Clinical Assessment and Accreditation scheme CAAs

Are you a passionate and experienced clinician ready to lead and inspire continuous and positive change in healthcare quality

Seeking a Lead for our established Quality Always team, who will continue to lead the Assessment and Accreditation scheme as DCHS’s central assurance tool; to champion high standards of care across DCHS and work imaginatively in the evolving integration of health and social care

In this pivotal role

Drive the assessment and accreditation framework helping teams to gain and sustain safe and quality care

Utilise Quality Improvement methods to enhance care delivery and team performance

Collaborate with leaders to identify improvement areas and celebrate successes

You will be responsible for the operational delivery of the assessment and accredited programme, providing leadership developing the skills of the team and providing senior support to clinical managers

Establish robust and rigorous assessment processes that evaluate and enhance care quality

Drive improvements to ensure safe high quality and personalised care for every patient accessing DCHS services

Foster a culture of excellence and sustainability in patient care outcomes

Support the utilisation and embedding of technology ensuring that our staff are supported to develop the skills and confidence to effectively utilise technology regarding local accreditation

Face-to-face interview 21st Jan 2025

Main duties of the job

The clinical lead will be responsible for:

Maintaining overall responsibility to implement the Clinical Assessment and Accreditation scheme that provides robust and rigorous assessment processes throughout all clinical teams and services in order to ensure quality, safe care outcomes for patients.

Utilising their specialist knowledge of the local assessment and accreditation process to develop the organisational quality assurance process so that it is consistently aligned to both operational local and national developments

Using their experience and judgement in the analysis collation and interpretation of clinical information/data

Completing comprehensive reports which inform operational and strategic decision

Require highly developed interpersonal and influencing skills to ensure continuous improvement in the assessment and accreditation of quality standards in care settings within DCHS

Support and advise on service improvements required to sustain and develop local assessment and accreditation process

Develop and support quality improvements and safe patient care based on evidence based practice

Use a collaborative approach whilst maintaining motivation with key stakeholders and a wider range of Trust employees where introducing change may be challenging

Adapt approaches and make amendments when faced with providing scheduled and unplanned information requests/reports and assessment and accreditation activity

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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