Quality Assurance and Improvement Partner

As an essential and integral part of the Northampton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s continued drive to improve and develop our quality initiatives we are looking for an ambitious healthcare professional to join the Quality Hub as a Band 7 Quality Assurance and Improvement Partner.

The post holder will play a key role in ensuring that clinical quality is fully embedded within service delivery. As the successful candidate you will lead and develop processes to ensure that all quality indicators, targets, innovations and initiatives are negotiated, implemented, monitored and evaluated in line with local and national requirements. You will manage the EQIA process and will be an expert in Quality Improvement methodology supporting the Trust with the development and monitoring of quality improvement projects.

Reporting to the Quality Assurance and Compliance Lead, you will be an inspirational leader with experience in implementing quality initiatives, in return you will working with a well-motivated team who will provide you with the support required to undertake this role.

Working with colleagues both within the Trust and externally is a key part of the role so you must possess strong communication and facilitation skills, management experience and have proven experience of multi- agency working.

The post holder will be based at St Mary’s Hospital, Kettering and will be expected to travel to sites across Northamptonshire.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sian Roberts Job title: Quality Assurance and Compliance Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07880857915

Johanna Harris

Head of Quality Surveillance

07713 710092