Clinical Quality and Safety Lead

Transformationunitgm; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Nottingham is looking for a Clinical Quality and Safety Lead to ensure high standards in Neonatal Services. Responsibilities include leading quality improvement initiatives, overseeing compliance with safety standards, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Candidates should have significant clinical experience, leadership skills, and relevant qualifications. This role offers an excellent opportunity to make an impact in patient safety and care delivery.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates significant clinical experience.
• Experience in developing and implementing quality strategies.
• Proven ability to manage and lead teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of quality and safety systems across the Neonatal Service.
• Collaborate with teams to identify training needs.
• Drive transformational work in healthcare delivery.

Skills

Leadership skills

Quality improvement

Analytical skills

Change management

Communication skills

Education

Practitioner registered with appropriate regulatory body (NMC, HCPC, GPC)

Evidence of study at or working towards master's level qualification

Tools

MS Office

Incident management database

Job description

Main area Neonatal Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 164-7507205-VC

Employer Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site City Hospital Neonatal Unit Town Nottingham Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/12/2025 23:59

Clinical Quality and Safety Lead

Band 8a

Job overview

Are you ready to make a significant impact on patient safety and care quality? Join us in our mission to deliver excellence in everything we do!

Join us at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), where every day, our teams save lives and improve health outcomes. As the largest employer in Nottinghamshire we serve over 2.5 million residents and are renowned for our dedication to excellence in healthcare across a diverse range of services.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and innovative lead for Governance, Quality and Safety to drive continuous improvement across our Neonatal Services.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

Lead the implementation and maintenance of quality and safety systems across the Neonatal Service.

Provide expert leadership to ensure compliance with the highest standards of quality and patient safety.

Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to identify quality improvement and governance training needs.

Support the investigation of events, learning response and subsequent implementation of recommendation and actions.

Support the Trust implementation of PSIRF ensuring the principles of compassionate engagement and a just and restorative culture support learning and improvement.

Drive transformational work to support continuous assessment, monitoring and improvement in healthcare delivery, providing support and oversight for the directorate team members.

Contribute to the directorate management team by reporting on regulatory compliance, assurance, learning and quality improvement initiatives.

Close working and liaison with multidisciplinary professionals to ensure triangulation of information and intelligence across the service, division and Trust. This is fundamental to support our teams to deliver the best service in a busy, multi-site Neonatal Service providing care to families living in a broad and varied social demographic.

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

• • Practitioner Registered with appropriate regulatory body (NMC. HCPC, GPC)
• • Evidence of study at or working towards masters level qualification
• • Up to date knowledge of: clinical audit and effectiveness processes, patient safety and non- clinical risk, risk assessment, data analysis, interpreting and working NICE guidance, National and Royal College Service Frameworks., assurance processes within the NHS i.e. CQC & NHS Resolution, patient/carer feedback processes
• • Knowledge and competency in MS Office
• • Ability to produce graphs charts and cross tabulations
• • Have experience of using incident management database
• Serious incident Management Investigation
• Knowledge of human factors approach to incident investigations

Experience

• Significant clinical experience
• Change management
• Service improvement
• Incident reporting, investigation and analysis
• Experience of developing and implementing quality strategies
• Able to demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement

Analytical and Judgement skills

• Ability to analyse clinical information, organisational processes and proposed projects and to recommend the best course of action
• Knowledge of and communicate relevant Government and Trust policy / strategy
• Ability to judge how Clinical Effectiveness fits into the wider Governance agenda
• Ability to identify problems and quickly report/act on them and support teams/individuals to find solutions

Planning and organisation skills

• • Able to work to, negotiate & co- ordinate deadlines in a variety of teams to meet local, Trust and National targets
• • Time Management skills including the ability to prioritise, plan and manage a large workload
• • Ability to work to variable work patterns that meet needs of the service and the wider divisional governance agenda
<>• Good organisational skills
• • Able to work on own initiative

Physical skills

• • Ability to carry out clinical shifts when required
• • Lift and move patients, and loads

Other requirements specific to the role

• Demonstrate resilience in relation to organisational working and with supporting teams/individuals following patient safety incidents

Communication and relationship skills

• Proven ability to negotiate, persuade, influence, motivate and gain the respect of other healthcare professionals
• Ability to communicate complex information to colleagues in a clear and precise manner
• Good presentation skills to support team training
• Ability to manage contentious and sensitive information and must be able to handle this information appropriately/sensitively
• Manage and lead those staff who report to them
• Work within trust Human Resource policies in managing self and others
• Ability to manage professional conflict teams

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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. Please follow the link to book onto our sessions: Support for NUH Job Applications

If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks : NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Departmentconfidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£49.50 for enhanced and £21.50 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Cheryl Griffiths Job title Head of Nursing and Professions - Neonatal Email address [emailprotected] Telephone number 01159249924