Total 4 Director/C-Level Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in Blackpool, Lancashire, FY2 0TS

Are you a visionary leader with a proven track record of improving academic performance?

About Our College:

Our college is driven by a passion for education and a genuine desire to inspire and motivate our students. We strive to ignite their curiosity, fuel their aspirations, and unlock their full potential. We firmly believe that every student deserves an exceptional educational experience that prepares them for a successful future.

The Role:

We seek a highly accomplished Director of Quality & Performance to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our unique college. As the Director of Quality & Performance, you will be at the forefront of our mission to deliver outstanding educational experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement a comprehensive quality assurance strategy that aligns with the college’s goals and vision.
Performance Monitoring: Oversee the assessment and evaluation of academic programs, ensuring they meet rigorous standards of excellence.
Continuous Improvement: Lead initiatives to enhance teaching and learning outcomes, using data-driven insights to inform decisions.
Compliance and Standards: Ensure the college adheres to all regulatory requirements and maintains high standards of academic quality.
Team Development: Mentor and support faculty and staff in adopting best practices for quality and performance.

About You:

Proven Experience: A strong background in quality assurance and performance management within an educational setting.
Innovative Thinking: The ability to drive change and inspire a culture of continuous improvement.
Excellent Communication Skills: Strong interpersonal and written communication abilities to engage effectively with all stakeholders.
Analytical Skills: Proficiency in data analysis and the use of performance metrics to guide decision-making.
Commitment to Excellence: A passion for educational excellence and a commitment to fostering a positive learning environment.

Benefits:

By choosing to work with us, you'll enjoy a wide range of benefits. You’ll receive a holiday package of 38 days annual leave (full time equivalent) as well as an enhanced employer pension contribution. Based at our rural campus in Lancashire, you will enjoy working in a bespoke and sector leading facility with a passionate and supportive team of colleagues who are committed to inspiring excellence.

How To Apply:

Please don't hesitate to get in contact with our team to arrange an informal discussion with the hiring manager: recruitment@myerscough.ac.uk or 01995 642289.

Safeguarding:

Please note that as part of our commitment to safeguarding our students, our background screening checks include limited online searches. Online searches will only be undertaken in respect of the successful candidate, as a pre-conditional term of our job offer.

Safeguarding our students is of paramount importance. Our recruitment process has been designed to keep students safe and to ensure that we appoint safe and suitable people.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment background and safeguarding checks.

The successful applicant will be responsible for complying with all safeguarding policies and practices, and for ensuring student safety and wellbeing is at the forefront of everything they do.

This post is not exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

We are an equal opportunity employer; we want all our candidates to have a fair and equal opportunity to secure employment with us. We encourage applications from all underrepresented groups: BAME applicants, disabled applicants, and LGBT+ applicants.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, due to a disability, then please speak with a member of the People team.

As a disability confident employer, we commit to guaranteeing an interview for any disabled applicant who meets all of the essential criteria.

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Leadership To effectively manage the corporate nursing teams, people, regulatory activities and other resources of designated portfolio services to ensure high quality and efficient services that provide value for money within appropriate resources. Strategic and operational nursing and clinical service planning for BTH; PLACE and ICS including development and delivery of ICS/Trust Clinical Strategy; Quality and Patient Experience Strategies; ensuring alignment with national strategy. System wide nursing professional advice and leadership; aligning this to national strategy and professional regulation. Workforce and system design for service integration. Strategic nurse workforce and service development planning and investment, with Professional Trust wide regulatory oversight, financial control,governance and assurance. Share in the responsibility for the achievement of excellent communications with clinical and governance staff and with operational/HR/OD and finance colleagues to ensure that improvement and delivery plans are inclusive, with shared ownership. Provide expert advice and support to the Executive Directors and to all those carrying management responsibilities within the Trust. Oversee the Corporate Nursing Directorate on a day to day basis for the Executive Chief Nurse. Oversee the delivery of the monthly nursing quality objectives and annual quality account to the highest professional standards. Represent the Executive Director of Nursing internally and externally in relation to nursing and corporate responsibilities, developing partnerships, sharing best practice and developing wider opportunities for developing clinical teams. Ensure the shared organizational vision, strategic aims, values and culture of the Trust are actively promoted, provide clear leadership and demonstrate this through being a role-model. To deliver on specific corporate programmes of improvement for Nursing and Midwifery. Lead the implementation and monitoring of key nursing and quality strategies, ensuring that the Trusts approach is in line with National Guidance and best practice. Providing support to the Divisional Directors of Nursing, Lead Allied Health Professional, Associate Directors of Nursing and Quality and The Director of Midwifery in the provision of high quality care to our patients. Provide expert professional advice and direction regarding clinical standards, appropriate treatment and statutory duties regarding clinical care. Advise and contribute to the development of new models of care delivery which lead to improved outcomes for patients and delivery of the Trust QEP programme. Will be the senior manager and budget holder for multiple departments and line manage key posts in the corporate nursing and clinical governance teams. Promote the vision, values and goals of the organisation in particular acting as a professional role model. To maintain effective relationships with colleagues, staff and external partners to support the delivery of the Trusts strategic objectives. To work with the Executive Director of Nursing and Medical Director in overseeing the delivery of the Trusts Quality Strategy and support systems in order to continually improve quality, safety and patient experience. To participate in the Trust Duty Director on call rota. Clinical Governance To lead on the reduction of clinical risk and avoidable harm to patients through the maintenance of robust risk management, complaint resolution and untoward incident investigation ensuring that the Trust disseminates and learns lessons from experience. Provide assurance and reports on the Trusts clinical governance performance to the relevant Trust committees. To work collaboratively with the Deputy Director of Quality Governance on the development and application of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements that ensure full compliance with internal and external governance requirements. To monitor and manage clinical risk, supporting the production of risk assessments within Trust Departments and adherence to the Trust Risk Management framework. Advise/Appraise the Executive Director of Nursing and Executive Medical Director on changes in national policy/legislation in relation to the Clinical Governance agenda. Work closely with the Deputy Director for Quality Governaance in leading and co-ordinating investigations into serious incidents/adverse events, complaints and claims ensuring analysis of themes and lessons learned. Work closely with the Executive Team, Divisional management teams and Quality Managers in the implementation of clinical governance, assurance and safety across the organisation. To work with the Executive Director of Nursing and Medical Director to ensure that clinical governance is embedded within the everyday practice of all clinical professionals. Ensure standards are being met and maintained against the NHSLA risk management standards and CNST standards. Take the lead in ensuring the maintenance and monitoring of CQC outcomes. Manage the development implementation and evaluation of the ward/community to board performance framework ensuring continuous benchmarking and performance management of the outcomes, implementation of remedial recovery plans or sharing of best practice across the nursing and midwifery disciplines. Working with Divisional Directors of Nursing/Director of Midwifery, develop and review workforce plans for nursing and midwifery, providing advice on issues of skills mix, deployment and utilisation of the nursing workforce. Education To lead the Trust approach to Nursing and Midwifery education and practice, working with the Divisional Directors of Nursing/Director of Midwifery/Allied Health Professional Lead who are responsible for the delivery across the Divisions for this agenda. To be the Trust Pre-reg and Post-reg Education lead and work in partnership with liaising with relevant Universities and Higher Education Institutions. Ensure that the Trust meets its responsibilities to provide clinical experience, and mentor support for pre and post registration nurse education in line with local and national requirements. To support the delivery of continuous development for Nurses and Midwives. To be the senior nurse lead on the development of the Patient Environment including PLACE and Privacy and Dignity agenda, working closely with the Infection Prevention Team and Estates/Facilities management departments. Direct line management Executive Director of Nursing Performance Review Objectives for the post will be the subject of overall agreement and regular review between the post holder and the Executive Director of Nursing. Summary This Job Profile is an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities of the Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality and is not intended as an exhaustive list. The job may change over time to reflect the changing needs of the Trust and its services, as well as the personal development needs of the post holder. A review of Director portfolios is currently underway meaning that the portfolio for this role may be expanded further. Health, Safety and Security All employees have a duty to report any accidents, complaints, defects in equipment, near misses and untoward incidents, following Trust procedure. To ensure that Health and Safety legislation is complied with at all times, including COSHH, Workplace Risk Assessment and Control of Infection. Confidentiality Working within the trust you may gain knowledge of confidential matters which may include personal and medical information about patients and staff. Such information must be considered strictly confidential and must not be discussed or disclosed. Failure to observe this confidentiality could lead to disciplinary action being taken against you. Codes of Conduct and Accountability You are expected to comply with relevant Trust codes of conduct and accountability. Infection Prevention and Control You must comply with all relevant policies, procedures and training on infection prevention and control. Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults You must comply with all relevant policies, procedures and training on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. Valuing Diversity and Promoting Equality You must comply with all relevant policies, procedures and training on valuing diversity and promoting equality. Training Managers are required to take responsibility for their own and their staffs development. All employees have a duty to attend all mandatory training sessions as required by the Trust. NHS Code of Conduct for Managers The NHS Code of Conduct for NHS Managers outlines the central standards of conduct expected of NHS Managers and seeks to guide them in the work they do and, in their decision, making. The Code is also intended to assure the public of the high professional standards and accountability within NHS Management The Code applies to all Chief Executives and Directors in the NHS and also to other Senior Manager positions with a similar responsibility and accountability. The Code applies to this post and the post holder will be required to abide by its terms. General Any other general requirements as appropriate to the post and location The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give a broad flavour of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the postholder.

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a substantive Deputy Director of Nursing & Quality post within the Fylde Coast Network. The Deputy Director of Nursing supports the delivery of high quality care and professional practice within the Fylde Coast Network.

Working with the Director of Nursing & Quality, the role focusses on supporting the delivery of the Nursing and Quality objectives within key areas including Clinical and Professional Practice, Clinical Governance, Risk, Performance and Improvement. The successful candidate will have drive and enthusiasm to continue to take this forward at pace in conjunction with the Director of Nursing and Quality, the Professional Practice leads and the wider Senior Leadership Team.

The role will include the operational leadership of a number of key aspects of the Director of Nursing & Quality portfolio and provide visible professional and clinical leadership within the Fylde Coast Network. This is a fast paced role which will require extensive clinical and leadership experience. If you have the passion to drive the delivery of high quality care and continually improve clinical practice then this could be the role for you!

For informal enquiries please contact Laura Holt, Director of Nursing and Quality,laura.holt@lscft.nhs.uk

Please note shortlisting will take place on Friday 17th May, applicants must be able to attend an interview on Thursday 23rd May.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.


This advert closes on Thursday 16 May 2024