Director of Quality and Safety

North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Director of Quality & Safety

£ Competitive Salary

Full-time, Permanent, Agile Working

We are seeking a collaborative and inspired individual to join our Board of Directors with accountability for the quality and safety of our services as well as providing visible clinical leadership to our teams.

About You -Resilient and ambitious with a wealth of experience to bring to our Trust, you'll be eager for this new challenge. With an empowering leadership style and evidence of successful development and implementation of organisational strategies, you'll be focused to create a climate and culture of high performance throughout the organisation. Inevitably, you'll carry a vibrant can-do attitude and mirror our values perfectly, with the skill and flexibility to operate at a high pace and overcome challenges readily, positively and collaboratively. Outstanding communication, negotiation and influencing skills will be imperative to your success.

You will be working as part of a supportive Executive and senior leadership team and be able to take advantage of a great work-life balance and agile ways of working.

We would particularly welcome applications from candidates with protected characteristics as it is important as a Board that we reflect the people we serve.

For further information or for an informal discussion with me please contact PA to the Chief Executive / Chairman, Lauren O'Donnell on Lauren.O'Donnell@neas.nhs.uk

Main duties of the job

The Director of Quality and Safety is a clinical, professional member of the Trust Board, with shared responsibility for corporate leadership, strategic development and planning and governance of the Trust.

The post holder is responsible for advising the Trust Board and Governors on issues relating to Quality and Safety alongside professional standards, discharging full statutory responsibilities to ensure that the Trust is compliant with appropriate policy and practice in the management of nursing and other clinical colleagues. This includes providing professional and clinical leadership to all nursing (Executive Nurse) and clinical staff across the organisation to ensure excellence in service delivery through the highest standards of professional practice and clinical performance.

The Director provides professional advice to the Board working in conjunction with both the Deputy Director and Senior Paramedicine leaders.

Along with the Medical Director, the post holder will advise and support the Board to ensure there is a high level of understanding and assurance linked to how strategic decisions impact on the quality and safety of patient care, clinical outcomes and the patient experience.

You will also be responsible for ensuring robust clinical governance is in place to deliver improvements in the quality of clinical care and lead the delivery of our Quality Priorities.

About us

We employ 3,500 staff in 63 locations and serve a population of 2,600,000 in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, and Tees over 3230 square miles.

Many people think the job of the ambulance service is to collect patients and take them to hospital, but we do much more!

Paramedic skills have developed hugely in recent years, meaning we carry out more treatment at the scene and en-route to hospital.

We have a dedicated clinical assessment service that allows us to provide patients with the most appropriate care from the beginning of the patient journey.

We have a specialised branch of the Trust called HART which deal with explosions or terrorist attacks.

Ultimately patients are the heart of everything that we do to support our mission of "safe, effective and responsive care for all".

We value and respect the diversity employees bring to our workplace. We recruit a workforce that reflects the community we serve, and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. To ensure we deliver on our aims in relation to diversity and inclusion we assess ourselves against a range of frameworks. We are ENEI Gold employer, Disability Confident Leader, Dyslexia Smart Award employer, Dementia Friendly, and part of Mind Blue Light programme and the Race at Work Charter from the Princes Responsible Business Network and are achieving across all objectives in NHS Equality Delivery System.

Date posted

16 November 2022

Pay scheme

Very senior manager (VSM)

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9340-DQS-11-22-9750

Job locations

Bernicia House

Goldcrest Way, Newburn Riverside

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE15 8NY

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full details of duties and responsibilities for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full details of duties and responsibilities for this role.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Demonstrable successful, experience and achievement as a very senior leader at, or near, Board Director level in a similarly complex organisation or system.
Experience of successfully implementing change programmes to reduce clinical risk, improve clinical performance and assure the highest standards of service delivery.
Experience of senior leadership in: Patient Safety, Risk, Infection Control, Safeguarding, Patient Experience, Medicines Management.

Desirable

Experience of working as a senior leader in, or closely with, the Ambulance Sector, NHS Foundation Trusts or emergency services.

Qualifications

Essential

A registered Nurse or Midwife with current NMC registration.
Master's degree level education or equivalent experience.
Demonstrable/detailed understanding of current health issues, national policy and professional standards, as well as best practice locally, nationally and internationally, particularly related to nursing, AHPs, patient experience, quality and safety.
Clinical or professional leadership qualification.

Desirable

A detailed understanding of quality improvement methodologies and a demonstrable track record in delivery of change through innovation.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Demonstrable successful, experience and achievement as a very senior leader at, or near, Board Director level in a similarly complex organisation or system.
Experience of successfully implementing change programmes to reduce clinical risk, improve clinical performance and assure the highest standards of service delivery.
Experience of senior leadership in: Patient Safety, Risk, Infection Control, Safeguarding, Patient Experience, Medicines Management.

Desirable

Experience of working as a senior leader in, or closely with, the Ambulance Sector, NHS Foundation Trusts or emergency services.

Qualifications

Essential

A registered Nurse or Midwife with current NMC registration.
Master's degree level education or equivalent experience.
Demonstrable/detailed understanding of current health issues, national policy and professional standards, as well as best practice locally, nationally and internationally, particularly related to nursing, AHPs, patient experience, quality and safety.
Clinical or professional leadership qualification.

Desirable

A detailed understanding of quality improvement methodologies and a demonstrable track record in delivery of change through innovation.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).