Associate Director For Patient Safety And Quality

Associate Director for Patient Safety and QualityCalderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
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Job Summary
Reporting to the Deputy Chief Nurse and working closely with the Chief Nurse and Executive Medical Director the post holder will provide strong professional leadership across the scope of the patient safety and quality agenda to ensure high quality safe clinical care is delivered consistently across the Trust working collaboratively with all colleagues to support the delivery of safe care. The post holder will work collaboratively to lead the direction of the Trust's Quality Strategy ensuring frameworks are in place with effective processes, systems and training to support our people to implement these frameworks to ensure safe, high-quality care for patients.
Main duties of the job
Demonstrate compassionate leadership and support the continued development of a patient safety culture.

• Work closely with colleagues to develop one culture of care approach across the Trust aligned to the principles of a Just and Learning organisation.o Lead on the implementation and embedding of the Patient Safety incident response framework (PSIRF).o To be the recognised expert leading on patient safetyo Work with colleagues across the organisation to develop clinical dashboards to support the consistent measuring and monitoring of patient safety data across the Trust, with a focus on improvement planning to ensure learning and change when required
• Provide oversight and support in relation to all aspects of regulatory inspections and compliance.
• Work in partnership with other Executive Directors and their teams to provide professional support in relation to the post holders responsibilities. o To support the Chief Nurse and Executive Medical Director in the delivery of the Trust strategic objectives
• To particularly maintain relationships with the coroner's office and the Trust solicitors in relation to patient safety issues and to ensure that appropriate legal advice and guidance is embedded into future policies and processes
• Lead on the approach aligned with PSIRF to learning from incidents, complaints, coroner's inquests, clinical audit and other sources, ensuring that executive directors are sighted on relevant themes and improvement plans.

About Us
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Job responsibilities
Operationally responsible for the team as identified in the corporate structure, specifically line managing the Head of Risk and Compliance, Head of Quality and Safety, Head of Legal Services, Head of PALS & Complaint, Senior CQC & Compliance Manager and the Matron for patient safety and quality.
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Person SpecificationEligibility , Qualifications And Training

• A detailed awareness and experience of delivery of the clinical and corporate governance agendas
• O Experience of leading teams and managing complex staffing issues
• O Recognised management or leadership qualification or equivalent experience o Extensive post registration experience working effectively at a senior level to deliver high quality patient centred services
• O Demonstrable change management experience of a complex nature
• Evidence of continuous professional/personal development post qualification
• Demonstrate ability to understand a financial budget and interpret/resolve issues identified
• Expert knowledge of the national and local agendas in relation to professional leadership of nurses, midwives and Allied Health Professionals
• Demonstrable Skills and experience in the Patient Safety Agenda
• O Master's degree (working towards) or equivalent experience
• O Up to date knowledge of NHS system reform policy and other key policy drivers (Performance management, operating framework, capacity planning, payment by results, Integrated Care Systems, Foundation trust issues)
• Evidence of service development
• First degree in a relevant subject
• O Hold professional registration with NMC or AHPF

Interpersonal skills

• Ability to clarify key points from diverse and complex sets of information and experience in giving presentations to diverse audience
• In managing others, has a proactive approach which is both inclusive and developmental
• Able to absorb and deal constructively with feedback and seek support as necessary
• O Ability to work effectively across other areas within the Trust and external groups
• O Coaches others, challenging and asking questions to help them work out answers for themselves
• O Highly developed communication skills and ability to convey complex or contentious issues to a variety of audiences (including presentation, written and oral)
• O Advanced influencing and negotiation skills to manage conflict
• O Actively demonstrates commitment to development of team creating an autonomous and empowered team who are capable and confident
• Commitment to NHS core values
• O Models and is able to encourage others in being innovative in finding ways of improving the quality of services.
• O Openness, honesty and integrity
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings

organisational skills

• O Well-developed problem solving and decision-making skills
• O Ability to write business cases/reports/SUIs/complaints to a consistently high level and implement processes to ensure a consistently high standard across the organisation
• Extensive knowledge of current NHS policy and its implications for provider organisations
• O Proven track record of successful and sustained senior operational management in an NHS Foundation Trust or similar organisation
• O Ability to demonstrate a high level of experience in providing senior leadership
• Involvement in complex and sophisticated service development and reconfiguration
• O Ability to manage conflicting priorities delivering against all as effectively as possible

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.
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
£83,571 to £96,376 a yearper annum, pro rata