Patient safety and quality improvement lead
| Posting date: | 06 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 January 2026 |
| Location: | Gillingham, ME8 0PZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | B9813-26-0000 |
Summary
This role will support the Chief Nurse, Interim Deputy Chief Nurse and wider quality team to ensure that MCH is fully compliant with all regulatory requirements to deliver strong quality governance and prepared for any regulatory activity such as a CQC inspection. The post holder should be passionate about patient safety and quality improvement so they can partner with service managers, clinical leads and operational staff to deliver best practice and demonstrable improvements. The post holder needs to have a working knowledge of patient safety learning and quality improvement methodology in order to support continuous learning and improvement, identification of themes and trends and positive change across MCH. This role will involve the development and implementation of a range of quality and safety training for MCH staff and teams. The post holder is expected to be a Patient Safety Specialist (PSS). As a PSS this will mean leading and supporting patient safety reporting and improvement activity, ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in all patientsafety processes. They will be required to undertake, co-ordinate and report on patient safety incident investigations, structured judgement reviews, after action reviews and other learning response activities. The post holder is expected to be a Quality Improvement Practitioner this will mean leading and supporting a structured approach to improving outcomes and work processes. They will be required to engage staff in and support staff through Qi projects ensuring the impact of theiractivity is captured and evidenced.