Job summary
- Main area
- Quality Assurance
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Secondment: 3 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 820-7528014-COR
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 3 Priestley Wharf
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/11/2025
Employer heading
Band 8a Head of Quality Assurance
Band 8a
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to support Nursing and Therapies in Quality Assurance. This role will last 3 months, with potential to be extended.
The post holder is the lead for the management of CQC regulation (inspection and regulation) across the Trust. This will involve working across the Divisions, Directorates and corporate specialists to ensure compliance and improvement at service level, supporting the implementation of quality improvement plans.
The post holder will be responsible for managing the CQC Provider Information Request (PIR) document and quality standards required for a large complex organisation.
The post holder will play a key part in developing a culture of continuous quality improvement across all services providing focused support where necessary to maximise achieve net against internal and external standards.
The post holder will be the lead across the Trust for policy and procedure framework ensuring compliance with governance standards a set out in the Trust Policy for Policies.
In line with the Trust being a major provider in Community and Primary Care Services, the post holder will be expected to support these developments and take responsibility for areas of responsibility with any future service developments.
Main duties of the job
Quality Standards and assurance
- Offer specialist advice to other corporate specialists and Divisions across the Trust in relation to the CQC regulation as defined in the Health and Social care Act (Regulated Activities) 2014.
- Oversee, manage and develop the self-assessment compliance system for the Trust.
Governance
- Continually develop, maintain and monitor systems and processes that ensure the Trust is compliant with the Care Quality Commission’s Fundamental Standards of Care.
Trust Policy Framework
- Responsible for overseeing the Trust policy and procedural framework ensuring governance standards are met. This includes:
· Acting as lead for the Trust for the policy development (i.e. policies, procedures and guidelines).
· Overseeing the mechanism for new policy development and policy review.
· Supporting authors as they develop a document acquiring approval and giving advice on approval/ratification routes for documents which require approval.
Training
- This post demands highly specialist skills which in turn will formulate training packages to be delivered to senior and front-line staff across the Trust.
Management
- Deputise for Deputy Chief Nurse as required.
- Involvement in disciplinary procedure, including acting as an investigating manager and presenting cases and participating as a panel member on disciplinary hearings.
For further information on the role, please see the attached full Job Description.
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details about the role, including key responsibilities, please check the full Job Description attached.
Person specification
Qualifications/training
Essential criteria
- Master’s Degree level education or equivalent highly developed specialist knowledge of quality standards and policy management for a large complex organisation including advanced practical knowledge of how to achieving those standards across the organisation.
- Evidence of management qualification/ Continuous Professional Development
- Evidence of on-going professional/personal development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Well-developed political awareness, influencing and negotiating skills
- Working with senior managers/Directors and external stakeholders
- Experience of making presentations of aimed at senior clinical and/or management staff groups
- Experience of preparing Board level reports and chairing meetings Extensive use of PC tools to manipulate, analyse and present information
- Experience in process-mapping and leading service
- Improvement /development of quality standards in clinical services and non-clinical services.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in quality improvement and development
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kia Whitcombe
- Job title
- Senior Administrator Nursing and Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07752398265
- Additional information
If there are any queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch and Kia will direct you to the appropriate person.
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