Job summary
A great opportunity has been created for a passionate and creative regulation and standards lead. You will be part of a small team making significant changes across the Trust. You will Lead on the Trust's CQUIN delivery working with expert leads to ensure overarching quality improvement on behalf of the Head of Regulation and Standards.
You will support the Head of Regulation and Standards to ensure that the Trust maintains its excellent relationship with the CQC and ICBs.
You will help lead on the quality governance structure in the Trust by providing support, advice and guidance on areas of governance and improvement.
This is a Trust-wide role where your experience, authentic leadership and motivational style will make huge differences to the experience of service users, carers and staff.
We provide a high level of on-the-job support and blended home working where appropriate.
Main duties of the job
Work under the direction of the Head of Regulation and Standards to support the Corporate, Divisional and Locality Teams to provide expert advice on compliance issues including the management of the Trust's CQC registration.
To support the Head of Regulation and Standards to ensure leadership of the compliance with national, local and Trust quality requirements including the overall management of both the yearly CQUIN and quality schedule requirements.
To support the Head of Regulation and Standards to ensure that the Trust continues to develop excellent quality governance processes that integrate quality information providing a 'golden thread' of quality information through the organisation.
To support the Head of Regulation and Standards to lead the yearly organisational requirements including the overall collation of information and the end production of the Trust's Quality Account including relevant information for the Trust's Business Plan
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The purpose of the role is support the teams in clinical practice to deliver a quality assured and safe service to the level of statutory requirements.
To support the Head of Regulation and Standards with delivery of initiatives to monitor and ensure compliance with all regulatory and standards activity.
CQC Registration
Work under the direction of the Head of Regulation and Standards to support the Corporate, Divisional and Locality teams to provide expert advice on compliance issues including the management of the Trust's CQC registration. The role includes supporting management of changes to the Trust's registration and advising the Trust on impacts of new business and changes to regulated activity as well as first line management of the relationships between the Trust and the CQC. The post holder will support the Head of Regulation and Standards to manage CQC inspection processes and provide written reports as required including CQC notification requirements.
Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN), Quality Schedule
To support the Head of Regulation and Standards to ensure leadership of the compliance with National, Local and Trust quality requirements including the overall management of both the yearly CQUIN and quality schedule requirements.
Quality Governance
To support the Head of Regulation and Standards to ensure that the Trust continues to develop excellent quality governance processes that integrate quality information providing a golden thread of quality information through the organisation. The post holder will ensure that excellent processes are in place providing expert advice to both Divisional and Locality colleagues. The post holder will also lead on the collation of the Trust's quality priorities.
Regulatory Requirements
To support the Head of Regulation and Standards to lead the yearly organisational requirements including the overall collation of information and the end production of the Trust's Quality Account including relevant information for the Trusts Business Plan.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The purpose of the role is support the teams in clinical practice to deliver a quality assured and safe service to the level of statutory requirements.
To support the Head of Regulation and Standards with delivery of initiatives to monitor and ensure compliance with all regulatory and standards activity.
CQC Registration
Work under the direction of the Head of Regulation and Standards to support the Corporate, Divisional and Locality teams to provide expert advice on compliance issues including the management of the Trust's CQC registration. The role includes supporting management of changes to the Trust's registration and advising the Trust on impacts of new business and changes to regulated activity as well as first line management of the relationships between the Trust and the CQC. The post holder will support the Head of Regulation and Standards to manage CQC inspection processes and provide written reports as required including CQC notification requirements.
Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN), Quality Schedule
To support the Head of Regulation and Standards to ensure leadership of the compliance with National, Local and Trust quality requirements including the overall management of both the yearly CQUIN and quality schedule requirements.
Quality Governance
To support the Head of Regulation and Standards to ensure that the Trust continues to develop excellent quality governance processes that integrate quality information providing a golden thread of quality information through the organisation. The post holder will ensure that excellent processes are in place providing expert advice to both Divisional and Locality colleagues. The post holder will also lead on the collation of the Trust's quality priorities.
Regulatory Requirements
To support the Head of Regulation and Standards to lead the yearly organisational requirements including the overall collation of information and the end production of the Trust's Quality Account including relevant information for the Trusts Business Plan.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Educated to degree level with further relevant specialist professional qualifications or equivalent experience
- Evidence of ongoing, relevant professional development
- Understanding of CQUIN guidance and management
- knowledge of policies, statutory regulations and guidance relating to CQC compliance.
- Experience of presenting complex data to a range of audiences in a variety of formats (e.g. conversations, presentations, reports) care regulatory standards and compliance.
- Experience of healthcare regulatory standards and compliance.
- Excellent written and verbal communication/presentational skills.
- Ability to travel Trust wide/ access to transport or Car owner with current driving licence
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Educated to degree level with further relevant specialist professional qualifications or equivalent experience
- Evidence of ongoing, relevant professional development
- Understanding of CQUIN guidance and management
- knowledge of policies, statutory regulations and guidance relating to CQC compliance.
- Experience of presenting complex data to a range of audiences in a variety of formats (e.g. conversations, presentations, reports) care regulatory standards and compliance.
- Experience of healthcare regulatory standards and compliance.
- Excellent written and verbal communication/presentational skills.
- Ability to travel Trust wide/ access to transport or Car owner with current driving licence
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
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