Quality Assurance Lead

Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland; City of Edinburgh, Greater Manchester; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading charity in Scotland as a Quality Assurance Lead, where you'll enhance care quality for individuals with chest, heart, stroke, and Long Covid conditions. This role focuses on implementing quality assurance frameworks and fostering a culture of excellence and transparency within the organization. You'll be instrumental in driving transformative change and ensuring that every individual receives the support they need to live life fully. Ideal candidates will possess strong leadership and communication skills, alongside relevant professional qualifications.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing quality assurance frameworks.
• Strong leadership and communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality assurance processes within Community Healthcare Support services.
• Ensure governance is embedded throughout Service Delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational Skills

IT Proficiency

Initiative

Education

Professional qualification in health and/or social care

Job description

Everyday people with chest, heart, and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.

You will be part of Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people with chest, heart, stroke, and Long Covid conditions, helping them live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service forms a nationwide network of local support groups, nurses, volunteers, and one-to-one support teams assisting families to adjust to life with a heart or lung condition or after a stroke.

Role: Quality Assurance Lead

To support the delivery of our ambitious NLHL strategy, CHSS is seeking to appoint a Quality Assurance Lead. This role involves leading quality assurance processes within CHSS Community Healthcare Support services, ensuring governance is embedded throughout Service Delivery, and fostering a culture of excellence and transparency.

The postholder will create an environment that promotes excellence in care and will drive transformative change. Candidates should have experience designing and implementing quality assurance frameworks, including clinical governance, with a recognized professional qualification/registration in health and/or social care. Strong leadership, communication, organizational skills, IT proficiency, and initiative are essential.

For inquiries, please contact: Lynsey Duncan, Head of Service Delivery at [e-mail].

Application notes

We support flexible recruitment and are “happy to talk flexible working”. This role is subject to a PVG check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and fair treatment, regardless of background.

If interested, visit our website at: chss.org.uk to submit your application or email: [e-mail].

• Remote: Home based with travel required
• Closing date: 28th May 2025