Associate Director of Quality

Job overview

Interview expected to take place: Commencing 12th May 2025.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead the clinical risk, governance and assurance teams. The post holder will be responsible for driving the embedding of the Trust Strategies for governance and assurance. This will ensure that quality of care is seen as the responsibility of all staff within the organisation on our journey to be an outstanding provider of health care. In taking this role forward the post holder will:

• Support and further develop a culture which empowers people to continuously improve care;
• Build on the current structure to continuously improve quality of care across the organisation.
• Align the Trust quality governance systems with those of corporate governance to ensure consistency and optimal effectiveness;

Main duties of the job

As part of the Senior Management Team; the role will include strong and visible leadership to the Trust across the whole quality, risk and patient safety agenda; including the provision of expert clinical knowledge in an acute hospital setting and taking part in the Trust Wide On Call rota.

The post holder will also lead on the Trust's approach to quality governance, to ensure its governance arrangements are robust and meet the requirements set by NHS England and the Regulations inspected by the CQC and take an active lead role in the “Moving to Outstanding “ work streams.

Working for our organisation

Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:

• We value people
• We are one team
• We care

We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate is required to be able demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Professional Qualification/ Membership of a Professional Body
• Master’s Degree or equivalent
• Certified Qualification in Quality Improvement methodology or equivalent experience or qualification
• Appropriate management and/or post graduate qualification
• Coaching or mentoring qualification
• Qualification in relation to Project Management

Experience

• Practical extensive experience and evidence of leading highly complex strategic change programmes in an acute care setting, including experience of positively influencing clinicians, managers and directors
• Significant experience of the effective deployment of Quality Improvement [QI] tools, techniques and methodology
• Significant experience in leading clinical governance in a health care setting
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries delivering projects across multi-disciplinary services or sites, working with a range of multi-disciplinary stakeholders including external agencies and regulators.
• Evidence of responsibility for developing, proposing and implementing organisation/system wide change including , strategy, policies, service development or service re-design.
• Able to demonstrate /provide evidence of effective leadership ability
• Able to demonstrate /provide evidence of accountability for delivery of clinical/ organisational wide quality improvement.
• Experience of managing and leading multiple high performing teams.
• Demonstrable experience of identifying, building and maintaining relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders across systems that has helped to deliver transformational change.
• Experience of chairing, facilitating and mediating multidisciplinary groups/meetings to deliver successful outputs and reconcile conflicting views where there may be significant barriers to acceptance or understanding.
• Experience of presenting highly complex, sensitive and contentious information and reports to different staff groups – from Board to floor.

Skills

• Experience of effective negotiation and influencing skills to drive change and performance with staff/services without direct line management.
• Ability to use own initiative and act independently within the bounds of existing knowledge and skills
• Ability to design strategies to ensure the engagement and involvement of essential stakeholders.
• Ability to organise a range of complex work programmes to respond to the developing and changing requirements of the health system/systems
• Ability to communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to a wide range of stakeholders where there may be significant challenge, reconcile differing views for the benefit of improving clinical care.
• Ability to use a wide range of IT applications to interrogate, analyse and present data accurately.
• Ability to manage multiple budgets effectively to ensure efficient procurement of any required external services / equipment / IT applications / licences.
• Ability to adapt and prioritise in a highly complex healthcare system

Knowledge

• Specialised knowledge and experience of recent clinical practice in an acute healthcare setting
• Expert level knowledge of the critical factors in delivering Quality improvement.
• Specialist knowledge in relation to quality governance, quality assurance, risk management, patient safety, clinical audit, patient and public involvement, research and development, incident investigation and learning and regulatory reporting.
• In-depth professional knowledge acquired through training and experience over an extended period of time covering a range of disciplines including information systems, clinical governance, regulatory control and quality improvement.
• Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality.

Other Requirements

• Participation in Trust Wide On Call rota/duties.
• Evidence of continuing professional development to support the delivery of senior leadership role in Quality and Patient Safety