Clinical Quality Lead (Home Based with National Travel)

Posting date:	02 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Negotiable
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	21 July 2025
Location:	Gateshead , Ne8 1NS
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	B0490-25-0002

Summary

Main Duties - To provide leadership and support strategically across Shaftesbury to further develop and establish best practice based clinical governance processes. Maintain clinical quality across services in order to identify any learning or concerns in a timely manner. Continue to develop clinical audit programme across the organisation to enable the organisation to understand effectiveness of its services and areas for improvement and development. Continuously review Clinical Governance processes to ensure that they provide a robust framework for a safe and high quality service whilst meeting statutory requirements. Promote positive experience and wellbeing for the people we support and facilitate the best outcome together and with them. Identify policies and procedures that need to be in place within the organisation. Have responsibility for developing these policies in partnership with appropriate professionals within their ability and ensure timely review. The Clinical Quality Lead will be responsible for leading, overseeing, evaluating and developing practice for their discipline across Shaftesbury. Support the development clinical quality improvement plans Job Description & Person Specification Page 2 of 7 Clinical Quality Lead January 2025 Ensure that NICE and other clinical guidance and alerts are distributed across the organisation. Ensure the governance systems contributes to the development and implementation of evidence-based protocols, documentation processes, standards, policies and clinical guidelines, through interpreting and synthesising information from a variety of sources and promoting their use in practice To analyse clinical risk, incidents and near misses and ensure that lessons learned are captured and are reflected in improvement plans. Work with the safeguarding lead with regards to clinical incidents and support clinical safeguarding processes across services as required. Work closely with the learning academy and clinical roles within it to identify training and learning needs across services in order to ensure services are delivering the highest quality of care. Further develop systems which ensure clinical information is collated organisationally for analysis and shared with the executive team and Trustees. Producing the required monthly reports. Ensuring that NICE guidance relevant to services, is cascaded and communicated via the Clinical Governance Steering Group and compliance with such guidance is monitored and reported to the Steering Group. Lead on quality improvement projects relating to agreed priorities, which contribute to ensuring the much-improved outcomes for the people who use Shaftesbury service. Undertake audit of services and work closely with members of the quality, compliance and innovation team. Work with the Quality Improvement partners when auditing nursing and rehabilitation services. To take part in the National on call arrangements, to ensure we are able to provide frontline operational teams with the appropriate support at all times. This will be on a rota arrangement and assigned in a consultative way. Coach/mentor members of the quality team to enable accurate audit of nursing/rehabilitation resources. Essential Functions Engage internal and external stakeholders, using effective negotiating and influencing skills to develop and improve practices. Job Description & Person Specification Page 3 of 7 Clinical Quality Lead January 2025 Be receptive to challenge and prepared to challenge others, escalating when necessary concerns that affect patient safety and best practice Critically apply legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct. Be an integral member of the quality, Compliance and Quality Team, ensuring the safety of people we support. Ensure clinical assurance, serious incident investigations and associated learning, clinical governance oversight and contributing to the development of services. Contribute to, and lead on, the development of quality and assurance reports for regular and ad hoc meetings. Advise the Lead for Quality, Compliance and innovation, Director of Operations on safety issues, fitness to practice and wider clinical quality issues. Play a key role in providing clinical quality advice and support to the Quality, Compliance and Innovation Team, executive team, Area managers, Registered Managers, clinical and care workforce ensuring a seamless quality response for the areas that they oversee. Monitor and develop quality initiatives in line with local and national requirements and guidelines; take a lead role in the facilitation of such initiatives Attend relevant meetings regularly to influence clinical governance decisions making with regards to service delivery provision, quality, audit and safety. Manage own diary and workload Act in such a way as to be a credible, effective leader, demonstrating effective clinical leadership on a daily basis Undertake clinical supervisions as necessary for appropriate clinical professionals. Competencies Practice autonomously, whilst being accountable and self-directed, in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council code of professional conduct. Have advanced communication skills in presenting, decision-making and problemsolving skills. Work in partnership with others; delegate and refer as appropriate to optimise health outcomes and resource use; and provide direct support regarding clinical quality matters across Shaftesbury. Will work in partnership to identify and safeguard against abuse and support people to manage and live their lives. Job Description & Person Specification Page 4 of 7 Clinical Quality Lead January 2025 Use their professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care events, and capture the learning from these experiences to improve service delivery and quality. Work collaboratively and draw upon an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources in their practice Able to analyse complex clinical information, identify required improvements and develop plans for implementation. Generate and apply new knowledge to their own and others practice in structured ways. Work collaboratively to identify and meet the learning and development needs of others, as appropriate Advocate and contribute to the development of an organisational culture that supports continuous learning and development, evidence-based practice and succession planning Work Environment This is a home based role, however the role will require extensive travel across the UK either for audits or meetings. Physical Demands For the demanding but rewarding role of Clinical Quality Lead, you must be prepared to travel throughout the UK. Working Relationships Internal Close working relationship with the Quality, compliance and innovation team, The Learning Academy, Area Managers and Registered Managers. External External partners and stakeholders including referrers and suppliers This job description and person specification is not exhaustive and amendments and additions may be required in line with future changes in the post holders duties. Job Description & Person Specification Page 5 of 7 Clinical Quality Lead January 2025 Physical Demands Essential Experience Qualifications: First level registration Adult Nurse