Clinical Quality and Safety Lead

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Nottingham seeks a dedicated professional to drive improvements in Neonatal Services. Key responsibilities include implementing quality systems, providing leadership for patient safety, and collaborating with teams for service excellence. The role offers opportunities for personal development within a diverse and supportive environment. Ideal candidates will be passionate about enhancing healthcare quality and safety.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement across our Neonatal Services.
• Lead the implementation and maintenance of quality and safety systems.
• Provide expert leadership to ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Collaborate to identify quality improvement and governance training needs.
• Support the investigation of events and implementation of recommendations.
• Drive transformational work to improve healthcare delivery.
• Report on regulatory compliance and quality initiatives.
• Liaise with multidisciplinary professionals across the service.

Job description

Opportunity

Are you ready to make a significant impact on patient safety and care quality? Join us in our mission to deliver excellence in everything we do!

About Us

Join us at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), where every day, our teams save lives and improve health outcomes. As the largest employer in Nottinghamshire we serve over 2.5 million residents and are renowned for our dedication to excellence in healthcare across a diverse range of services.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement across our Neonatal Services.
• Lead the implementation and maintenance of quality and safety systems across the Neonatal Service.
• Provide expert leadership to ensure compliance with the highest standards of quality and patient safety.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to identify quality improvement and governance training needs.
• Support the investigation of events, learning response and subsequent implementation of recommendations and actions.
• Support the Trust implementation of PSIRF ensuring the principles of compassionate engagement and a just and restorative culture to support learning and improvement.
• Drive transformational work to support continuous assessment, monitoring and improvement in healthcare delivery, providing support and oversight for the directorate team members.
• Contribute to the directorate management team by reporting on regulatory compliance, assurance, learning and quality improvement initiatives.
• Work closely and liaise with multidisciplinary professionals to ensure triangulation of information and intelligence across the service, division and Trust, supporting our teams to deliver the best service in a busy, multi‑site Neonatal Service providing care to families living in a broad and varied social demographic.

Why NUH?

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.