Description
The Clinical Governance, Training, Workforce and Revalidation team, together with the team reporting through the Deputy Director for Health Protection Workforce, Infection Prevention and Control, Medicines Governance and Safeguarding (HIMS), ensure the organisation is operating within a robust clinical governance and quality improvement framework and the medical /public health professional workforce is working to appropriate professional standards.
This is a senior leadership role providing expert clinical and public health governance advice and leadership across UKHSA. The post holder will be responsible for the development, coordination, implementation and continuous improvement of UKHSA's Clinical and Public Health Quality Management Framework and associated governance arrangements.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide professional leadership and expert advice on Clinical and Public Health quality, governance and improvement.
- Lead development and implementation of the UKHSA Clinical and Public Health Quality Management Framework.
- Coordinate the collection, analysis and interpretation of quality, governance and assurance intelligence across UKHSA.
- Support the Clinical Quality Oversight Committee in discharging its governance, assurance and oversight functions.
- Promote a culture of quality improvement, organisational learning and patient and public safety.
- Lead preparation and support arrangements for external inspections and reviews, including CQC-related activity where appropriate.
- Provide expert governance input into the development of new Clinical and Public Health services.
Responsibilities
- Act as an ambassador and advocate for Clinical and Public Health Quality and Governance across UKHSA.
- Lead the development of a culture of quality improvement, effectiveness, patient safety and continuous organisational learning.
- Develop, implement and maintain the UKHSA Clinical and Public Health Quality Management Framework.
- Ensure governance, quality management and improvement arrangements remain aligned with national guidance, regulatory requirements and emerging best practice.
- Coordinate cross-organisational quality intelligence from incidents, audits, quality indicators, assurance reviews and other sources to identify emerging risks and themes.
- In collaboration with operational services and the corporate risk management function, analyse quality, risk and assurance information to support organisational oversight and improvement.
- Support the implementation and monitoring of action plans arising from significant incidents, reviews, audits and inspections, particularly where cross-directorate coordination is required.
- Provide leadership for organisational learning and dissemination of lessons across UKHSA.
- Oversee the development of a strategic approach to Clinical and Public Health audit aligned to UKHSA's remit and priorities.
- Oversee development of communication and engagement strategies that promote quality management, governance and improvement.
- Support directorates and service teams through expert advice, challenge and critical friend review of Clinical and Public Health quality management arrangements