Quality Programme and Assurance Officer
Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC
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Job summary
Nottingham CityCare Partnership is seeking a Quality Programme and Assurance Officer to join our Quality Directorate. The role provides programme, project and assurance support across CQC improvement activity, patient safety learning, health inequalities and patient experience.
You will manage project plans, action trackers, RAID logs, evidence libraries and dashboards, working across teams to keep outputs clear and on track.
Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in project support, quality governance, healthcare improvement or related field.
- Experience delivering project, programme or quality workstreams within a complex organisation.
- Experience in healthcare, social care or a regulated environment is advantageous.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to prepare clear reports and logs.
- Ability to handle confidential information in line with information governance requirements.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain project plans, milestone trackers, RAID/action logs and benefits tracking for quality programmes.
- Coordinate working groups and delivery checkpoints with clear agendas, papers and action logs.
- Monitor delivery against milestones and escalate risks, dependencies and resource constraints to quality leads.
- Produce highlight reports, briefings and dashboards to support assurance and decision making.
- Support regulatory readiness, patient safety learning, engagement and health inequalities workstreams.
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Job description
Nottingham CityCare Partnership is looking for a Quality Programme and Assurance Officer to join our Quality Directorate.
This is an exciting opportunity to support key quality priorities, helping turn plans, evidence and learning into action that improves outcomes for patients, communities and staff.
You will provide programme, project and assurance support across CQC improvement activity, patient safety learning, health inequalities, and patient experience and engagement. This will include maintaining project plans, action trackers, RAID logs, evidence libraries, reports and assurance summaries, helping work stay on track and enabling risks or delays to be escalated quickly.
We are looking for someone who works confidently across teams, manages competing deadlines and turns information into clear outputs. You will be skilled in Microsoft 365, report writing, meeting support, progress tracking and administration. Experience in project, programme, quality, governance or business support would be valuable; experience in health, social care or another regulated setting would be an advantage.
You do not need to be a clinician. What matters is that you are organised, accurate, curious and collaborative, with a commitment to improving quality, reducing variation and supporting services to evidence their impact.
If you want your organisational skills and commitment to improvement to make a difference, we would love to hear from you.
Interviews are expected to be held on 14/09/2026The Quality Programme and Assurance Officer will provide high-quality programme, project and assurance support across the Quality Directorate, helping to deliver key priorities including regulatory readiness, patient safety learning, clinical effectiveness, patient experience, health inequalities and quality improvement programmes.
The role will maintain robust project plans, milestone trackers, action logs, RAID logs, evidence repositories, highlight reports and dashboards, ensuring progress, risks, delays and dependencies are clearly monitored and escalated.
The post holder will support CQC readiness by maintaining evidence libraries and tracking improvement actions, assist PSIRF and patient safety learning workstreams, and coordinate engagement, experience and health inequalities activity.
They will work closely with quality leads, clinical and operational teams, senior managers, corporate colleagues, patient representatives and community partners to ensure actions are delivered and assurance is clearly demonstrated.
Key skills include excellent organisation, accuracy, written and verbal communication, confident use of Microsoft 365, data collation and presentation, stakeholder engagement, confidentiality, and the ability to manage competing priorities. The post holder must demonstrate CityCare values, professionalism, flexibility, attention to detail, collaborative working and a commitment to continuous improvement.
We are a provider of NHS Community Health Services, CityCare exists to support the health and wellbeing of all local people, working alongside other health and care partners to achieve this.
We are a value driven, people business with apassion for excellence.
Our vision and social purpose is to make a difference everyday to the health & wellbeing of our communities and our values of kindness, respect, trust and honesty lie at the heart of everything we do, guiding how we work together with partners and each other to consistently deliver high quality compassionate care.
As a social enterprise we aim to add social value by investing in the future of our local communities and helping to make a difference in peoples lives.
CityCare valuethe benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.
We are proud to be a forces-friendlyorganisation and are dedicated to supporting Veterans, Service Leavers, Reservists, andmilitary spouses/partners. We value the unique skills and contributions youbring.
CityCare is anequal opportunities employer. We are positive about employing people withdisabilities. If you require your application in a different format pleasecontact People Services on ncp.recruitment@nhs.net . CityCare is committed to theprotection of vulnerable adults and children.
- The Quality Programme and Assurance Officer will provide structured programme, project and assurance support across the Quality Directorate, enabling the delivery of agreed quality priorities, regulatory readiness, patient safety learning, clinical effectiveness, patient experience and improvement programmes.
- The post holder will work with quality leads, clinical and operational teams to maintain clear project plans, action trackers, RAID logs, highlight reports and evidence repositories. They will support both the effective delivery of project processes and the monitoring of agreed project outcomes, advising quality leads on the use of appropriate milestones, measures, evidence and reporting mechanisms to demonstrate progress, impact and assurance. They will support the timely delivery and monitoring of improvement actions, ensuring risks, delays and dependencies are escalated appropriately.
- Supports delivery of directorate-wide health inequalities, quality improvement, quality assurance and regulatory readiness programmes.
- Maintains programme documentation including project plans, milestone trackers, action logs, RAID logs, evidence libraries, decision logs and highlight reports.
- Works across multiple quality workstreams, including CQC readiness, PSIRF learning, Health Inequalities, patient engagement and experience improvement and quality governance reporting.
- Requires frequent liaison with senior leaders, heads of service, service managers, quality leads, clinical teams, corporate colleagues and external partners as appropriate.
- Expected to handle confidential and sensitive information in line with information governance requirements.
- The role is not responsible for clinical decision-making, professional judgement, investigations, complaints adjudication or regulatory sign-off, but will provide high quality coordination, data collation, documentation and programme controls to support senior staff to provide assurance.
- Supports delivery of directorate-wide health inequalities, quality improvement, quality assurance and regulatory readiness programmes.
- Maintains programme documentation including project plans, milestone trackers, action logs, RAID logs, evidence libraries, decision logs and highlight reports.
- Works across multiple quality workstreams, including CQC readiness, PSIRF learning, Health Inequalities, patient engagement and experience improvement and quality governance reporting.
- Requires frequent liaison with senior leaders, heads of service, service managers, quality leads, clinical teams, corporate colleagues and external partners as appropriate.
- Expected to handle confidential and sensitive information in line with information governance requirements.
- The role is not responsible for clinical decision-making, professional judgement, investigations, complaints adjudication or regulatory sign-off, but will provide high quality coordination, data collation, documentation and programme controls to support senior staff to provide assurance.
- Develop and maintain project plans, milestone trackers, RAID logs, decision logs and benefits tracking for agreed quality programmes.
- Coordinate working groups, workstream meetings and delivery checkpoints, ensuring agendas, papers and action logs are clear and timely.
- Monitor delivery against agreed milestones and elevate slippage, risks, dependencies and resource constraints to the relevant quality lead.
- Support production of highlight reports, briefing notes, evaluation data and summary dashboards using agreed templates.
- Maintain CQC evidence libraries and support mapping of evidence to relevant domains and quality statements.
- Maintain accurate logs of improvement actions, owners, timescales, evidence and completion status.
- Provide programme support for patient safety learning workstreams, including tracking implementation of learning actions and improvement plans.
- Support preparation and circulation of learning outputs such as briefings, newsletters, action updates and thematic summaries.
- Assist with maintaining records of learning responses, safety improvement actions and evidence of completed actions.
- Support coordination of engagement-related quality workstreams (Engagement and Experience Strategy Delivery Plan), ensuring evidence and outputs are recorded.
- Assist with the coordination and promotion of community events and activities and the gathering of feedback from diverse community groups.
- Assist in the coordination of health inequalities-related projects across services.
- Ensure inclusive and accessible engagement practices are followed in all interactions.
- Maintain accurate records, shared folders, document repositories and version‑controlled programme documentation.
- Use Microsoft 365 applications to produce clear reports, action logs, charts, briefings and presentations.
- Ensure information is handled confidentially and in accordance with information governance requirements.
- Work within agreed policies, procedures and standard operating processes.
- Demonstrate CityCare values and behaviours in all interactions.
- Identify opportunities to improve consistency, efficiency and quality of directorate processes.
- Undertake essential training and participate in appraisal and personal development.
- Develop, coordinate and maintain training materials, guidance documents and briefing resources to support delivery of quality, assurance, regulatory readiness and improvement programmes.
- Support the planning and delivery of training, workshops, drop‑ins and awareness sessions for staff and managers, including practical guidance on use of tools, trackers, templates and evidence repositories.
- Work with leads and subject matter experts to ensure training content is accurate, accessible, inclusive and aligned to CityCare policies and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain training records and evaluation feedback, using this information to identify gaps, improve materials and support ongoing learning across teams.
- Strong organisational skills with ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
- Good written communication skills with ability to prepare clear reports, briefings, minutes and action logs.
- Ability to understand, interpret and use data from a range of sources to support general project monitoring, assurance reporting and improvement activity.
- Supporting teams to identify themes, trends and variation in access, experience or outcomes, risks and opportunities for targeted improvement which impact health inequalities
- Ability to work collaboratively and build effective relationships across teams.
- Understanding of CQC fundamental standards / quality statements and NHS patient safety improvement context.
- Knowledge of project management tools such as RAID logs, benefits plans, milestone plans and highlight reporting.
- Ability to use SharePoint, Power BI, Forms, Lists or other digital tools to support assurance and action tracking.
- Understanding of quality governance, risk, audit, improvement and assurance principles
- Full driving licence or ability to travel independently across sites where public transport is limited.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience in project support, quality governance, business administration or healthcare improvement.
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to project management or improvement.
- Project management qualification or training, e.g. PRINCE2 Foundation, Managing Successful Projects, NHS improvement/QI training or equivalent.
- ECDL/advanced Microsoft Office or equivalent digital skills qualification
- Experience of providing project, programme or quality workstream support in a complex organisation.
- Experience of maintaining action trackers, project plans, meeting papers, minutes, evidence logs and progress reports.
- Experience of working with stakeholders to support delivery of actions and deadlines.
- Experience of working to understand and improve health inequalities, including supporting work that identifies variation in access, experience or outcomes.
- Experience within NHS, community health, social care or a regulated environment.
- Experience supporting quality improvement workstreams.
- Experience producing dashboards, highlight reports or assurance summaries.
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.
Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC
Aspect House, Aspect Business Park
(Agile Working)
26 Bennerley Road, Bulwell
Nottinghamshire
NG6 8WR
United Kingdom
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