Quality & Governance Manager for Community Diagnostic Hub

Wye Valley NHS Trust

The closing date is 13 May 2025

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge? Wye Valley NHS Trust are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic person to join our diagnostics team and take a lead in the accreditation of the brand new Community Diagnostic Centre due to open later this Summer. The Community Diagnostic Centre will incorporate Imaging (Plain X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI), a range of cardiorespiratory investigations including echocardiography, ECG and rhythm monitoring, blood pressure monitoring, spirometry, FeNO, lung function tests, simple field tests, sleep investigations, oximetry, blood gas analysis and pathology services in a "one stop" location to obtain diagnostic information in cancer, cardiac, respiratory, musculo-skeletal and other conditions. Community Diagnostic Centre

This is a key leadership role within Wye Valley Trust to lead on Accreditation, Complianceand Quality Assurance. This role will be crucial in achieving and maintaining the variousaccreditations required at the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) that will come on line in2025 as well as ensuring compliance with the Trusts governance and risk framework. Thispost holder will have a key role in developing improvement plans and developing animprovement culture.

Main duties of the job

Lead on the accreditation assessment for all services based at the CDC e.g. QualityStandards for Imaging (QSI) for Radiology, Improving Quality in PhysiologicalServices (IQIPS) for Heart and Lung Services. Ensure that documentation for suchaccreditation and annual audits are prepared.

Responsible for implementing a robust document control/quality managementsystem, I Passport.

The post holder will be responsible for delivering the Quality and Clinical GovernanceAgenda for the CDC

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Date posted

29 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

229-CS-7116588

Job locations

COMMUNITY DIAGNOSTIC HUB

Hereford

HR4 9SH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Raise awareness of the importance of Quality Management within Imaging, applyinga standardised approach to Quality Management across all services run at the CDC.Provide expert advice, support and training to all staff on the implementation of theQuality Management System, I Passport.

Ensuring that SOPs and protocols are updated by the relevant member of staff,within the required timeframe and in line with Trust-wide governance processes.

Ensuring that SOPs and protocols are updated in line with clinical guidance andbest practice

Job description

Job responsibilities

Ensuring that SOPs and protocols are updated by the relevant member of staff,within the required timeframe and in line with Trust-wide governance processes.

Ensuring that SOPs and protocols are updated in line with clinical guidance andbest practice

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Masters level (or evidence of equivalent experience) with significant demonstrable experience working at this level
Qualification in Quality Improvement, working towards or equivalent experience
Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Excellent communication, leadership and negotiation skills
Presenting complex, sensitive or contentious information to a large group of staff
Excellent presentation skills and experience in formal and informal staff development and training
Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion

Experience

Essential

Significant experience of senior NHS managerial/supervisory level
Experience of change management
Experience of developing and managing quality based systems and audits

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Masters level (or evidence of equivalent experience) with significant demonstrable experience working at this level
Qualification in Quality Improvement, working towards or equivalent experience
Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Excellent communication, leadership and negotiation skills
Presenting complex, sensitive or contentious information to a large group of staff
Excellent presentation skills and experience in formal and informal staff development and training
Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion

Experience

Essential

Significant experience of senior NHS managerial/supervisory level
Experience of change management
Experience of developing and managing quality based systems and audits

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.