Quality & Safety Programme Lead – Hybrid/Flexible

NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The Quality and Safety Programme Manager at NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board provides expert programme management for the CNO Division's Quality & Safety function, maintaining the business plan, risk register and reporting cycle across four MDT Leads and their cross-cutting portfolios.

The role translates national guidance and local priorities into coordinated, deliverable programmes; works closely with the Safeguarding Lead to align reporting and governance; and offers governance, risk

Qualifications

• Educated to Master's level, or equivalent level of experience in a senior role.
• Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development.
• Significant experience managing highly complex programmes in a large organisation.
• Experience delivering strategic priorities or transformation programmes.
• Experience in directorate or departmental risk management, including maintaining risk registers and reporting to governance committees.
• Experience of working across organisational or system boundaries.
• Formal training in quality improvement (QI) methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates the Quality & Safety business plan, tracking delivery against objectives and milestones and reporting progress, slippage and risk to the Associate Director of Quality and Safety.
• Manages the function's risk registers and reporting requirements, working as part of an MDT approach.
• Establishes the detailed timeline and work programme delivering assurance cycles across the function, and tracks progress and outcomes.
• Supports internal and system fora for quality review, coordinating executive and Board sign-off as required.
• Provides expert programme management, including governance, risk management, benefits realisation, financial oversight and reporting.
• Leads the development and review of ICB policies relating to quality and safety.
• Consolidates quality and patient safety reporting across the ICB and services into a single reporting and escalation route.
• This profile may require carrying out other duties commensurate with banding and competence.

Skills

Program management

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Quality improvement

Cross-organisational collaboration

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

Job description

The Quality and Safety Programme Manager at NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board provides expert programme management for the CNO Division's Quality & Safety function, maintaining the business plan, risk register and reporting cycle across four MDT Leads and their cross-cutting portfolios.

The role translates national guidance and local priorities into coordinated, deliverable programmes; works closely with the Safeguarding Lead to align reporting and governance; and offers governance, risk