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About
NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.
Through our seven regional teams, NHS England supports local integrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care – NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector – to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.
Contact
- Address
- Wellington House
- 133-155 Waterloo Road
- London
- SE1 8UG
- Contact Number
- 0300 330 1369
Senior Clinical Manager
Closed for applications on: 1-Nov-2024 00:04
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 1-Nov-2024 00:04
Key details
Location
- Site
- 3 Piccadilly Place Any North West NHSE office
- Address
- London Road
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M1 3BN
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8b)
Specialty
- Main area
- Senior Clinical Manager
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
Are you passionate about improving the quality of healthcare? Do you want to work in a role that involves wide-ranging collaboration with NHS England colleagues, as well as healthcare partners across the system. An exciting opportunity to work in Northwest NHS England's Nursing Directorate will help you achieve that.
NHS England, Health Education England and NHS Digital came together in 2023 as a new single organisation. The NHS Long Term Plan focuses on delivering integrated care to patients at the local level and we can best support the NHS to deliver this as a single integrated organisation.
Our new operating model represents a strong shift to regional delivery supported by expert corporate teams. Local health systems are supported by our integrated regional teams who play a major leadership role in the geographies they manage.
This is a role will support the directorate to deliver on its quality and patient safety objectives for the region.
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The post holder will provide senior specialist patient safety advice and lead on safety related activities as well as playing a key role in providing clinical quality advice and support to the Heads of Quality, ensuring a seamless quality response for the areas that they oversee. They will also advise other staff on safety issues and wider clinical quality issues. The post holder will be able to demonstrate significant knowledge and experience of patient safety and quality systems across the NHS and will have extensive knowledge of specialist areas.
Ability to work effectively with a wide range of people/organisations/groups and skilled in implementing change.
This role requires the post holder to be able to analyse and interpret complex quality information, both quantitative and qualitative, lead on the development of quality and safety reports for regular and ad hoc meetings and support improvement programmes at regional, ICB and provider level.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The post holder will contribute to the delivery of NHSE’s priorities in line with the Long-Term Plan and the Operating framework.
- Support effective stakeholder collaboration across different departments and at all levels, maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, such as key strategic regional and national policy makers, inside and outside of NHSE.
- To provide credible and visible professional leadership, supporting and assuring ICBs and whole system work on improving quality safety & patient experience.
- Support the Head of Nursing and Deputy Head of Nursing with delivery of Nursing priorities and work streams.
- Operational lead on review of data / intelligence related to portfolio areas to identify risk issues and ensure appropriate actions are taken to mitigate.
- Monitoring and establishing accountability on the overall progress of the portfolio areas to ensure completion within agreed timescales.
- Manage and actively promote the relationships with key stakeholders In particular, the post holder will work with the ICBs, regulators and educators to ensure that the local system delivers safe high-quality care.
- Lead on internal quality governance processes for NHSE’s regulatory functions.
- Operational management of the regional nursing risk register.
- Oversight of the ICB primary care complaints function as part of the National Oversight Framework.
- Deliver on aspects of delivery of the National Patient Safety Strategy.
Please see the attached Job Description for further details on the role, responsibilities and person specification.
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Our commitments to you
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered. We’re passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow and excel, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that. We welcome your talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro-divergent.
We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. Whilst we appreciate that you may have had support with your application (e.g., using AI technology or guidance from a trusted individual), it’s important that the information contained within your application reflects your own knowledge, skill, and experience and we trust that you apply on that basis.
If applying for this role on a secondment basis, please make sure you have obtained prior agreement from your current line manager to apply for this position.
Please note that we currently do not accept applications via recruitment agencies.
To comply with the HM Government Functional Standard GovS 007, and specifically the Personnel Security Standards 2024, individuals employed or contracted by NHS England may be required to undergo a Baseline Personnel Security Standards check, dependent on the role.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
SKills / Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates leadership and engagement skills including the ability to inspire and innovate
- Can develop, conduct, review and evaluate data, write detailed reports and evidenced based documents
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience at senior level
- Demonstrates leadership and engagement skills including the ability to inspire and innovate
- Can develop, conduct, review and evaluate data, write detailed reports and evidenced based documents
- Experience in quality improvement and assurance
- Experience in clinical governance
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a Provider/ Commissioner within specialist area (Quality/Risk/Governance).
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jasleen Kaur
- Job title
- Regional Head of Nursing- Clinical Quality
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07702433049
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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