Clinical Quality and Education Lead

Job summary

Interviews for this role are due to take place on Friday 16th December 2022.

Pilgrims Hospices has an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Quality and Education Lead to join our Senior Nursing Team.

This is great opportunity to demonstrate clinical leadership skills as the post holder will be responsible supporting our Director of Nursing and Care in ensuring our compliance with CQC Frameworks and the ongoing auditing and maintaining of action plans to ensure our patients continue to receive the highest possible level of care.

To review, plan and implement training and education to ensure that as an organisation we are providing up-to-date, high standards of patient care. As a provider at the forefront of end-of-life care in east Kent, Pilgrims Hospices offers specialist training and development, both internally and to external partners, and the successful applicant will therefore have the opportunity to influence and improve practice across the local healthcare environment.

Main duties of the job

As the Clinical Education and Training Lead, your main responsibilities and duties will include:

• To support audit and research across the charity including undertaking relevant clinical audits and supporting improved audit cycle.
• Review clinical audits and undertake GAP analysis to identify and manage any development areas identified.
• To support the work of the Quality and Governance Group to identify and support best practice ensuring compliance with the Care Quality Commissions requirements.
• To manage CQC Evidence Frameworks and ensure this is evidenced appropriately against the required outcomes
• The design, development and delivery of training programmes internally and externally
• Supporting high-quality patient care through the provision of evidence-based training
• Supporting and mentoring other staff in the delivery of training
• Liaising with external partners to ensure education and training programmes meet key local needs

The post-holder must ensure that services are provided to a high standard, in line with mandatory and best practice guidelines.

About us

As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end of life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.

Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families both in the community and in-patient units.

Our Benefits

As an Employer of Choice we are committed supporting our employees and volunteers through both a holistic benefits package, but also through wellbeing and work/life balance.

Our hospices offer:

• Friendly and highly professional working environments alongside people passionate
• Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
• A workplace pension scheme. Those joining us from the NHS may retain eligibility to membership of the NHS pension scheme
• Subsidised meals
• A good work-life balance and realistic working hours
• Financial discounts, provided through the Blue Light Card scheme
• A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
• A sense of wellbeing

We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice!