Quality Improvement Manager
| Posting date: | 02 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £53,755.00 to £60,504.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53755.00 - £60504.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 May 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS9 7TF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9298-TEX-0079 |
Summary
To provide expert quality improvement and change management consultancy to the CDC (Community Diagnostics Centre) leading on the quality and delivery of the programme and ensuring that accreditation is delivered as part of the programme and that it is fit for purpose. Working with the Directors of Operations, Planning, Finance and other internal and external stakeholders to ensure timescales are met and service benefits realised. The quality improvement manager will ensure that robust management systems are in place during the planning period to achieve the strategic and operational quality Improvement for the CDC with an aim to gain accreditation through UKAS. UKAS is working with NHS England to establish a project to develop Accreditation for Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs). NHSE have stipulated that CDCs are to be accredited within 2 years of being set up. Over 170 CDCs have already been approved by NHSE to operate services which may include pathology, phlebotomy, point of care testing, diagnostic imaging, and physiological science services. As the national accreditation body, UKAS is the only organisation recognised to provide accreditation across healthcare diagnostic and scientific services. UKAS will now work with host Trusts and CDC providers to determine the most suitable approach to deliver accreditation across the relevant disciplines, and the scope and the timeframes that services are planning to work to. In order to conduct this work UKAS needs to gather as much information as possible from CDCs on their structures, governance, activities and how they work with other services. We will then be able to use this information to formulate a plan and pilot an integrated approach for our assessments, where required.