Job responsibilities
Executive lead for quality governance, leading and overseeing the continuing development of a quality framework that identifies, meets and exceeds required standards, driving improvement and learning.
Executive lead for Safeguarding Adults & Children, ensuring leadership and oversight of statutory, mandatory and operational arrangements in place for safeguarding.
Executive lead for Infection Prevention & Control) (DIPC) ensuring leadership and oversight of statutory, mandatory and operational arrangements in place for IPC.
Executive lead for service user and carer involvement, engagement and experience, ensuring an organisation (and beyond) approach to liberate the voice of the service user and carer to impact positively on the care they receive and services we develop.
Provide professional leadership to our Nurses, Allied Health Professions and Psychology staff, ensuring they have a framework in place to support them, develop their practice, influence care and redesign and to provide career and succession pathways.
Ensure clinical services, practice and professions are central to strategy development and service redesign and change.
Be the Senior Responsible officer for agreed Trust-wide projects relevant to portfolio.
Executive lead for the development of the Equality Diversity and Inclusion and Human Rights framework as it relates to/impacts on service users while supporting the Director of People to drive this agenda for staff, setting out agreed priorities and measurable outcomes for improvement.
Responsible for the setting, reviewing and reporting of safe staffing in line with national requirements.
Seek out, drive and support delivery of quality improvements to continually safeguard and improve our services and the care we provide
Corporate Responsibility (all Executive Directors)
As an Executive Director of the Trust Board and a member of the Executive Team you will:
Be a role model for effective values led inclusive leadership in SHSC, driving a positive can-do culture and actively promoting respect, openness, participation and team working.
You will demonstrate an unrelenting commitment to driving forward the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda.
Work with senior colleagues to continuously improve the quality and delivery of service to service users and carers.
Play a full and active role as a Board member and as a member of the Executive Team, participating actively in all Board activity
Actively engage with colleagues to provide support and challenge to achieve their goals as well as your own
Be an active and willing partner in the System, at Place and within the MHLDA collaborative, advocating for the advancement of services for people we work with.
Develop and maintain good and productive working relationship with partners relevant to profession and portfolio.
Adhere to the standards laid down in the NHS Code of Conduct for managers and at all times act in a manner that reflects and promotes the values of SHSC.
Meet the Fit and Proper person test to be a Board Director
Effectively participate in SHSCs Executive on call rota.
Be responsible, with support, for advancing and maintaining your personal development and learning and that of your direct reports and teams
Professional Leadership
Provide highly visible and inspiring clinical leadership to ensure service users and carers remain central. Championing a professional and open culture and acting as a role model for the behaviours and high professional standards expected.
To maintain systems and processes to provide the Board with the assurance that high standards of care are being delivered and where they are not what the plan is to address that.
Provide expert and professional advice to the Board and organisation as and when required
Champion the need for continuous improvement and excellence in Nursing and Professions, leading with the Medical Director and Director of People on the development and implementation of a suitable and visionary clinical workforce model which represents the best of clinical practice and ensures this is consistently implemented in the interests of service users.
Ensure the maintenance of professional standards of care in line with the Nursing and Midwifery (NMC) Code of Professional Practice and other relevant professional bodies. Ensure Nursing Revalidation is supported.
Quality Improvement and Safety
Ensure that users of our services are fully and effectively involved and engaged at all levels of care delivery.
Ensure robust systems and processes for quality governance are in place to provide assurance that the essential standards of quality and safety are delivered to service users and to promptly identify gaps in care with plans to address.
Ensure effective systems are in place to identify compliance with the requirements for regulation, including the essential standards of quality and safety (CQC).
Work in partnership with the Medical Director to ensure the integration of learning from feedback including complaints, incidents and claims.
Ensure the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF) is effectively implemented and maintained to ensure an effective response to patient safety incidents for the purpose of learning and improvement
Ensure that Health and Safety standards relevant to clinical practice are monitored, maintained and improved where appropriate.
With the Medical Director, fully embed comprehensive Quality Improvement and innovation programmes.
Hold Executive responsibility with the Medical Director for an effective Quality and Equality Impact Assessment of all change and development activity.
Ensure that Governance and Quality Management Strategies are implemented consistently.
Quality Assurance and Risk Management
Provide highly visible leadership and assurance to the implementation of the Quality Agenda. Ensure that risks are identified and that there is an effective clinical risk management system from ward to Board.
Visibly promote and support patient care improvement through the implementation and audit of the Quality Strategy in conjunction with the Medical Director.
Together with the Medical Director, ensure there are effective safeguarding arrangements in place for children and vulnerable adults.
Ensure the effective management of patient complaints and ensure that public and service users perceptions are used to improve services.
Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
Have Executive responsibility (DIPC) for IPC and provide assurance through to the Board and relevant committees that Infection Prevention and Control policies are fit for purpose.
Lead the development and oversee the implementation of the prevention and control of infection annual programme.
Oversee infection control policies and their implementation and as Director of IPC, ensure effective systems for the prevention and control of infection are embedded across the organisation.
Ensure effective reporting internally and externally in line with requirements and facilitate learning and assurance.
Education Training and Research
To work with the Director of People to ensure that robust and forward-looking clinical workforce development programmes are in place, that meet the requirements of the people strategy and people delivery plan and delivers the training and development needs of the clinical workforce.
To develop strong links with providers of education and professional bodies to ensure appropriate integration between service and training needs and raise the standards of Nursing and Professions education and training.
To promote evidence based research across the professions. Enabling all staff to contribute to research, innovation and clinical effectiveness as part of their everyday jobs, to provide the highest quality evidence-based care, and drive forward the development of best practice.
Workforce
Executive lead for Safe Staffing in relation to clinical regulations, specifically nursing.
With the Director of People, maintain an effective recruitment strategy and retention plan to support innovation and promote innovation safety.
To ensure that effective infrastructure and systems are in place to support reflective practice and clinical supervision and professional development.
