Quality Advisor

at  NHS Bath and North East Somerset Swindon and Wiltshire ICB

The role of the Quality Advisor will support the BSW quality team in the commissioning and monitoring of safe and clinically effective healthcare, which provides as good an experience as possible for the local populations and the wider BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) footprint as required. This includes supporting the development and ongoing monitoring of quality standards, metrics and CQUIN schemes. Additionally, the role will help deliver identified quality improvement initiatives within the BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire localities and wider BSW pathways.

• To work with the BSW quality team to ensure the Integrated Care Board (ICB) has robust processes and systems to commission for quality and holds providers to account through regular quality monitoring. To include supporting quality oversight and support for primary care.
• Have responsibility for quality oversight of key workstreams and pathways in a locality and the wider BSW area, as agreed with the quality lead.
• To support the quality team in the annual contractual cycle, including supporting the team in the development and monitoring of provider quality schedules and Commissioning for Quality and Innovation Schemes (CQUIN’s).
• Attend and contribute to the Clinical Quality Review Meetings and escalate issues accordingly.

BSW ICB is committed to achieving equality of opportunity for all colleagues and for those who access services.
Our vision, the result we want to achieve for local people, informs the present and inspires the action needed to make change happen. It is underpinned by three core principles:
Collective voice – working together as a collaboration and one whole system
Healthy communities – empowering people to lead on their health with their families, their communities and health professionals
Stories and strengths – holding people’s strengths, stories and experiences, and what matters to them at the heart of our system
Developed by colleagues across the organisation, our five core values underpin the way we work and help to guide our actions and the decisions we make for local people and communities.

OUR CORE VALUES ARE:

• Caring
• Innovation
• Inclusive
• Accountable
• Collaborative
• The post holder will be required to maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders across the BSW area. To include close working with the contract and informatics team.
• Build relationships with neighbouring ICBs, STP and NHSE to facilitate quality monitoring and improvement.
• Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives which may be highly complex, sensitive, political, and contain contentious information with the aim of providing information and analytical advice to the teams.

Information Management

• Devise and provide improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting, and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes.
• Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.
• Set up, maintain & manage the document control management system using M Files to track and store all ICB electronic documents.

Policy and Service Development

• Develop policies and procedures in own work function with an impact on the wider organisation, as required.
• Present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• To liaise with other colleagues to share best practice.

The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager

• To work with the BSW quality team to ensure the Integrated Care Board (ICB) has robust processes and systems to commission for quality and holds providers to account through regular quality monitoring. To include supporting quality oversight and support for primary care.
• Have responsibility for quality oversight of key workstreams and pathways in a locality and the wider BSW area, as agreed with the quality lead.
• To support the quality team in the annual contractual cycle, including supporting the team in the development and monitoring of provider quality schedules and Commissioning for Quality and Innovation Schemes (CQUIN’s).
• Attend and contribute to the Clinical Quality Review Meetings and escalate issues accordingly