Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Professional Standards and Quality Lead

The closing date is 29 July 2025

Job summary

This Band 8b senior leadership role is based within the Turnaround Team for Secured Services at NHFT, covering Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. The postholder provides strategic, clinical, and professional leadership across secured services, with a strong focus on quality improvement, education, and workforce development. They will implement actions to audit standards, gain assurance and promote quality improvement and innovation.

The post holder will provide senior professional leadership to support the development and implementation of education and development activities / programmes for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals.

Main duties of the job

Main duties and responsibilities:

o Take forward and implement the Trust's Quality Framework across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire Prisons to deliver clinically and financially viable services, maintaining a focus on the delivery of high-quality patient care standards

o Take the lead on identified quality and professional corporate projects and programmes of work focused on the delivery of high quality, safe patient care

o Provide leadership, support, and advice to ensure the highest standards of nursing care are adhered to and maintained.

o Support the Professional Advocate Lead (PAs) within Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to oversee recruitment, continuing practice, evaluation of the impact of the role within Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire Prisons.

o To support the Assistant Director, Specialty Services by deputizing for senior roles in their absence and representing them externally as required.

o Ensure that there are systems and processes in place to deliver and monitor safe, effective compassionate and dignified care across the prisons.

o Provide effective clinical and professional leadership which promotes and demonstrates the values and behaviours identified within the Trust.

o Demonstrate effective leadership through clinical credibility and role model leadership behaviours.

o Provide advanced professional nursing knowledge and expertise to support improvement in quality and professional standards across the prisons.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Date posted

23 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

18 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

270-TG214-MH

Job locations

HMP Lowdham Grange

Nottinghamshire

NG14 7DA

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individual and teams in Trust wide projects
Excellent working knowledge of current NHS issues

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

Educated to master's level or equivalent with a highly developed specialist knowledge, for example acquired through degree and supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience
The post holder will hold a Professional Qualification, and have an active Registration with a Professional Regulator
Demonstrable experience in leading and implementing trust wide policies

Desirable

NHS Experience

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individual and teams in Trust wide projects
Excellent working knowledge of current NHS issues

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

Educated to master's level or equivalent with a highly developed specialist knowledge, for example acquired through degree and supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience
The post holder will hold a Professional Qualification, and have an active Registration with a Professional Regulator
Demonstrable experience in leading and implementing trust wide policies

Desirable

NHS Experience

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.