Quality Lead

HCRG Care Group; Rugby; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for an experienced Quality Lead to enhance clinical quality standards across various services. The role requires strategic leadership, compliance oversight with CQC regulations, and the ability to foster a culture of continuous improvement. Successful candidates will have strong analytical and communication skills. This position offers flexible working arrangements with a salary range of £55,690 to £62,682 depending on experience.

Benefits

£55,690 - 62,682 salary range

Private medical insurance

Flexible, part-time hours

Access to discounts via My Reward Hub

Continuous professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical quality and effectiveness roles essential.
• Strong understanding of CQC regulations and compliance.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills required.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership on clinical quality across services.
• Develop and implement the audit plan for quality assurance.
• Advise on compliance with clinical and regulatory standards.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Clinical quality oversight

Compliance knowledge

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Education

Relevant healthcare qualification

Job description

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Quality Lead to join our Warwickshire 019 service. You will provide strategic leadership and oversight of clinical quality and effectiveness across a diverse portfolio of services.

As the Quality Lead, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring safe, high-quality care is consistently delivered across the unit. Reporting to the Business Unit Head, you will advise the Senior Leadership Team on compliance with all clinical, regulatory, and professional standards, including CQC regulations, CQUINs, and KPIs.

You will also lead and provide assurance on core quality functions including:

• Adult safeguarding (health)
• Infection prevention and control
• Health and safety
• Clinical governance and CQC compliance

Working closely with the Chief Nursing Officer, Head of Quality & Risk, Chief Pharmacist, and others you’ll be at the forefront of embedding quality into practice and driving continuous improvement.

What we offer

• Flexible, part-time hours (18.75 per week), Monday to Friday
• Remote working with weekly visits to service sites
• Supportive, forward-thinking team environment
• Opportunity to shape and influence high-quality care delivery across a respected healthcare organisation

Main duties of the job

• Develop audit plan and ensure audit aspects of services are developed and embedded in practice
• Identify clinical information that provides supporting evidence that care provided to patients is of high quality and safe
• Ensure the service teams have access to advice and support from relevant experts and teams (internal and external)
• Be responsible for the production of the monthly Quality Assurance & Risk Report to all Governance Committees

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a Quality Lead, you’ll be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group. You will feel valued as a Quality Lead within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £55,690 - 62,682 depending on experience with group pension
• Private medical insurance with fast access to the most used specialists including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support at locations across the country
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location in Runcorn
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise

Person Specification

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.