Senior Quality Governance Lead

at  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will work with the Associate Director of Quality, the Head of Quality Improvement and Learning and our Patient Safety Specialist to drive the embedding of the Trusts strategies for quality improvement, governance and assurance. This will ensure that quality of care is seen as the responsibility of all staff within the organisation on our journey to be an outstanding provider of health care. In taking this role forward the post holder will:
An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead and manage our Quality Governance Team.

The post holder will work with the Associate Director of Quality, the Head of Quality Improvement and Learning and our Patient Safety Specialist to drive the embedding of the Trusts strategies for quality improvement, governance and assurance. This will ensure that quality of care is seen as the responsibility of all staff within the organisation on our journey to be an outstanding provider of health care. In taking this role forward the post holder will:

• Support and further develop a culture which empowers people to continuously improve care;
• Build on the current structure to continuously improve quality of care across the organisation.
• Align the Trust quality governance systems with those of corporate governance to ensure consistency and optimal effectiveness;

Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
We value people
We are one team
We care
We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
As part of the Quality Team ; the role will include strong and visible leadership to the Trust across the whole quality, risk and patient safety agenda; including the provision of expert governance knowledge in an acute hospital setting and will take part in the Trust Wide On Call rota.
The post holder will lead on the Trust’s approach to quality governance, to ensure its governance arrangements are robust and meet the requirements set by our regulatory bodies and commissioners. As such the post holder will support the Trust’s ambition of being and outstanding provider of health care.
Do you have excellent communication skills, experience in governance and assurance, managing multiple teams and, adept at identifying learning from patient safety incidents, clinical negligence claims, and other sources

• Support and further develop a culture which empowers people to continuously improve care;
• Build on the current structure to continuously improve quality of care across the organisation.
• Align the Trust quality governance systems with those of corporate governance to ensure consistency and optimal effectiveness