Job summary
NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a statutory NHS organisation responsible for developing a plan for meeting the health needs of our communities, managing the NHS budget, and arranging for the provision of joined up health services which improve the lives of people who live and work in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
By collaborating as an integrated care system (ICS) our health and care organisations can tackle complex challenges, including:
- Improving the health of children and young people
- Supporting people to stay well and independent
- Acting sooner to help those with preventable conditions
- Supporting those with long-term conditions or mental health issues
- Caring for those with multiple needs as populations age
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team of clinicians working to ensure that residents of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly receive high quality, safe, clinically effective care and support whilst positively experiencing care that is personal to their needs. Are you an experienced nurse or allied health professional with an enquiring agile mind? Are you looking to use your clinical experience to improve care to the population? Are you looking for a role that is diverse and challenging? If so, we would love to hear from you.
Please contact Lisa Nightingale, Head of Clinical Quality & Patient Safety Specialist on 07919892466 for further enquiries
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this role is to lead on quality for a range of workstreams within priorities and programmes of care for the Integrated Care Board (ICB) across the Integrated Care System (ICS) in relation to quality and safety including strategic quality management, operational quality management, patient safety, experience and effectiveness
The quality manager will ensure that quality and patient safety is considered and maintained throughout the lifecycle of all clinical transformation and commissioning projects relevant to their assigned area of work and clinical expertise. The post holder will also ensure the statutory quality functions of the ICB are upheld.
Advocating high quality care and challenging poor performance, the post holder will report on and convene multiagency reviews to facilitate implementation of quality improvements and opportunities for learning across the ICS.
Where the term quality is used this encompasses all aspects of patient safety, clinical effectiveness, patient experience and health inequalities
About us
We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment and are always keen to hear from people who would like to work with us. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, disability or long-term health condition, gender identity or expression, race or ethnicity, faith, sex, sexuality or veteran status.
We are looking for people whose personal values and behaviours align with the NHS values outlined in the NHS Constitution and our own values and behaviours.
You can look forward to excellent benefits including discounts schemes, optional pension and life assurance, flexible working, salary sacrifice vehicles and cycles and much more
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification for more specific information about this post.
Please note that this job description is currently going through the job matching process and confirmation of the banding is subject to the outcome of this process.
For hybrid working we offer the flexibility to work from an office (Bodmin, Truro), and from home, depending on the requirements of the team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification for more specific information about this post.
Please note that this job description is currently going through the job matching process and confirmation of the banding is subject to the outcome of this process.
For hybrid working we offer the flexibility to work from an office (Bodmin, Truro), and from home, depending on the requirements of the team.
Person Specification
Person Specification
Essential
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Extensive knowledge of specialist clinical areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training, plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
- Extensive knowledge and experience of project and change management in a healthcare environment or similar government / public sector environment
- Experience of collaborative working across multiple organisational and agency boundaries to achieve demonstrable outcomes and improvements in the quality of care/patient experience
- Experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Understanding of core elements of quality; local/ national requirements and standards
- Evidence of post registration CPD
- People management experience
- Budgetary experience
- Proven leadership experience
- Excellent communication skills in a politically sensitive environment
- High level analytical and judgement skills for complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of information and data
- High level planning and organisational skills - for complex activities or programmes, requiring formulation and adjustment of plans
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required.
- Physical skills - standard driving, keyboard skills. Use of equipment.
- Able to manage own workload and make informed decisions, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Determination, perseverance, resilience and flexibility
- Honesty, listening, taking ownership, flexibility/adaptive, creative/innovative
Person Specification
Person Specification
Essential
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Extensive knowledge of specialist clinical areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training, plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
- Extensive knowledge and experience of project and change management in a healthcare environment or similar government / public sector environment
- Experience of collaborative working across multiple organisational and agency boundaries to achieve demonstrable outcomes and improvements in the quality of care/patient experience
- Experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Understanding of core elements of quality; local/ national requirements and standards
- Evidence of post registration CPD
- People management experience
- Budgetary experience
- Proven leadership experience
- Excellent communication skills in a politically sensitive environment
- High level analytical and judgement skills for complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of information and data
- High level planning and organisational skills - for complex activities or programmes, requiring formulation and adjustment of plans
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required.
- Physical skills - standard driving, keyboard skills. Use of equipment.
- Able to manage own workload and make informed decisions, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Determination, perseverance, resilience and flexibility
- Honesty, listening, taking ownership, flexibility/adaptive, creative/innovative
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board
Address
Chy Trevail Bodmin/New County Hall Truro
Part 2S,Chy Trevail, Beacon Technology Park
Bodmin
PL31 2FR
Employer's website
https://www.cios.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
