As an essential and integral part of the Northampton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's continued drive to improve and develop our quality initiatives we are looking for an ambitious healthcare professional to join the Quality Hub as a Band 7 Quality Assurance and Improvement Partner.

The post holder will play a key role in ensuring that clinical quality is fully embedded within service delivery. As the successful candidate you will lead and develop processes to ensure that all quality indicators, targets, innovations and initiatives are negotiated, implemented, monitored and evaluated in line with local and national requirements. You will manage the EQIA process and will be an expert in Quality Improvement methodology supporting the corporate directorate with the development and monitoring of quality improvement projects.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Quality Assurance and Compliance Lead, you will be an inspirational leader with experience in implementing quality initiatives, in return you will working with a well-motivated team who will provide you with the support required to undertake this role.

Working with colleagues both within the Trust and externally is a key part of the role so you must possess strong communication and facilitation skills, management experience and have proven experience of multi- agency working.

The post holder will be based at St Mary's Hospital, Kettering and will be expected to travel to sites across Northamptonshire.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Trained healthcare professional qualification
• Educated to post graduate degree level or equivalent knowledge

Experience

Essential

• Experience and knowledge of quality improvement methodology
• Proven experience to manage and deliver projects

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Analtytical and problem solving skills
• Effective communication skills

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Huxlow House, St Mary's Hospital

London Road

Kettering

NN15 7PW

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