Associate Director Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Job summary

Are you passionate about the NHS and specifically Quality Improvement and Patient Safety?

Do you hold a formal Quality Improvement award?

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a new role to join our Nursing and Quality Team.

Hybrid Working - Predominantly working from home and some working from offices across Hertfordshire and West Essex.

The Post Holder will play a key role, working with the ICB Director of Quality, the System Quality Director and Deputy Directors of Nursing, in establishing an effective focus and the implementation of the delivery plan for quality improvement and patient safety.

The post holder will work across the ICS with partner commissioners and providers and provide leadership with a focus on embedding quality improvement across the Herts and West Essex system, focusing on the three aims of improved population outcomes, reduced costs (associated with poor care) and improved patient experience.

Main duties of the job

The Assistant Director of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety will provide compelling professional leadership for quality improvement and patient safety across all care settings, engaging clinical and corporate colleagues, to promote a broad definition of quality and secure demonstrable progress towards a shared culture as part of everyone's business to embed continuous quality improvement.

The post holder will provide leadership, visibility and expert support to patient safety work. The post holder will be responsible for delivery of the National Patient Safety Strategy, driving delivery and ensuring alignment and consistency across the system. This will involve working closely with the ICB Director of Nursing and Quality, The System Quality Director and their deputies. They will identify key themes and trends across the system and work with the relevant teams to deliver quality improvements across commissioned services. Key responsibilities will include;

• Driving reform and supporting organisational and system change.
• Engaging with key strategic regional and national policy makers to inform development of strategy and policies across the ICS.

The post holder will provide expertise of best practice methodologies regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments and stakeholders knowledge.

About us

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.

The ICB's role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.5 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

It's an exciting time for us and we're looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.

So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.