Job summary
We are looking for someone to join our team in a new management position. This exciting new role will play an integral part in ensuring our practice is caring, safe, effective, responsive and well led.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for promoting quality and standardisation across the team, to ensure best patient care.
About us
We are a supportive practice with high standards and ethics. We are a teaching practice and are always looking for ways to improve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will:
- Be an integral part of the Management Team and within this structure will be responsible for managing quality and governance initiatives.
- Lead a quality improvement approach across the service, ensuring that a positive culture towards change is fostered.
- Develop proposals for new initiatives, particularly in support of safe, effective, efficient and responsive care, and manage their implementation.
- Work in conjunction with the senior management team and practice leads to implement strategies and ensure the continued improvement of practice, underpinned by evidence-based knowledge and competencies.
- Support the Practice Manager in leading the clinical governance and quality agenda to ensure that a high quality, patient focussed service is delivered.
- Work with the Practice Manager to embed regulatory and best practice compliance e.g. CQC, NICE, clinical audit and quality assessment/reviews.
- Monitor and implement strategies to manage the performance of the service, in order to provide assurance to the organisation, commissioners and regulators, of the quality of service delivery, such as KPIs, professional standards and contractual requirements
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will:
- Be an integral part of the Management Team and within this structure will be responsible for managing quality and governance initiatives.
- Lead a quality improvement approach across the service, ensuring that a positive culture towards change is fostered.
- Develop proposals for new initiatives, particularly in support of safe, effective, efficient and responsive care, and manage their implementation.
- Work in conjunction with the senior management team and practice leads to implement strategies and ensure the continued improvement of practice, underpinned by evidence-based knowledge and competencies.
- Support the Practice Manager in leading the clinical governance and quality agenda to ensure that a high quality, patient focussed service is delivered.
- Work with the Practice Manager to embed regulatory and best practice compliance e.g. CQC, NICE, clinical audit and quality assessment/reviews.
- Monitor and implement strategies to manage the performance of the service, in order to provide assurance to the organisation, commissioners and regulators, of the quality of service delivery, such as KPIs, professional standards and contractual requirements
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent experience (e.g. significant leadership experience)
- Good standard of general education: 5+ GCSEs A-C or equivalent, including Maths and English 3x A-Levels or equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Leadership training/qualification
- Project management training/qualification / Service improvement training/qualification
Experience
Essential
- Leadership role (minimum of two years)
- Knowledge: General practice contracts
- Knowledge: Relevant professional standards and regulatory
- requirements
- Experience: Managing change effectively and positively
- Awareness: Population health and health inequalities
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Training and teaching skills both on a one-to-one basis and in a
- group setting
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent experience (e.g. significant leadership experience)
- Good standard of general education: 5+ GCSEs A-C or equivalent, including Maths and English 3x A-Levels or equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Leadership training/qualification
- Project management training/qualification / Service improvement training/qualification
Experience
Essential
- Leadership role (minimum of two years)
- Knowledge: General practice contracts
- Knowledge: Relevant professional standards and regulatory
- requirements
- Experience: Managing change effectively and positively
- Awareness: Population health and health inequalities
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Training and teaching skills both on a one-to-one basis and in a
- group setting
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.
