Job overview

AWP CAMHS are looking to recruit a Quality Improvement Lead to work alongside myself as the CAMHS Clinical Lead, the wider clinical teams in CAMHS and across the organisation. Are you motivated to support being part of making a difference and making lasting improvements? If so, I would like to invite you to consider applying for this exciting role.

I would also ask that you apply early as this post will close when sufficient applications are received. 

With a core focus on clinical governance, healthcare quality, compliance, and assurance, you’ll ensure that our standards not only meet but exceed those required to deliver outstanding patient care and healthcare services.

To support governance processes through their assurance and quality improvement (QI) activities. The post holder will use their quality improvement skills to lead quality improvement programmes both within their divisions and across the Trust, and enable and empower clinical and operational teams to lead their own quality improvement projects and programmes within their service. The post holder will track key performance indicators, providing assurance at Divisional and Trust level of compliance, or escalation of issues that arise as necessary.

Main duties of the job

To promote and encourage a culture that is committed to continuously improving and providing high quality patient services:

·       To provide support to services on all aspects of quality improvement

·       To track key performance indicators to provide assurance within services and at Divisional and Trust level of compliance (or early view of arising issues where applicable)

·       Facilitation of Division services QI projects and collaboratives and those related to service priorities/objectives and corporate requirements

·       To support corporate Trust requirements e.g. National Audits, NICE

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. 

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.  

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.