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Band 8c Head of Quality Governance

Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Barnet
Salary
£75,853 to £86,574 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Closing date
17 Oct 2024
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Profession
Other Health Profession
Grade
Band 8C
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
An exciting opportunity to undertake the role of head of quality governance at Barnet Hospital has arisen. We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and passionate candidate who strives for excellence.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for: developing, implementing and monitoring an effective and compliant system of working to ensure robust hospital quality governance managing the governance staff dealing with all activities relating to patient safety, risk, compliance and audit acting as a pre-emptive, self-relating practitioner who horizon scans to ensure the hospital/ divisional governance activities remain in line with current best practice and developing a culture of informed questioning, challenge, trend analysis triangulation, and assurance.

The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification. You will need to be able to establish your credibility at all levels internally, and be able to quickly build relationships within your own team and the wider organisation.

About us

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A& E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

People enjoy working with us because we are values-driven and a person centred trust that cares about the community. We also have a strong commitment to staff wellbeing and development.

For more information please follow linkhttps://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person Specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential

  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values


Education & professional qualifications

Essential

  • Undergraduate Degree or equivalent professional qualification
  • Masters level qualification, or equivalent experience
  • Business/Project Management qualification, or equivalent experience
  • Evidence of further professional and personal development
  • Have leadership/governance qualification


Desirable

  • Clinical qualification


Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience of leading a quality governance team
  • Significant demonstrable experience in project management in an acute care
  • Ability to collate and analyse statistical and qualitative information for presentation to high level groups
  • Experience of implementing significant change projects
  • Experience of effective working within a team and alone
  • Experience of working with minimal supervision
  • Knowledge of the components of governance, risk management and assurance function current NHS national policies, standards, requirements and directions that relate to measuring and improving the quality and safety of patient care


Employer details

Employer name

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Barnet Hospital

Wellhouse Lane

Barnet

EN5 3DJ

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

391-RFL-6522725-A

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