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Job summary

Main area
Drug & Alcohol Services
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
301-IT-25-7189219-A
Employer
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services
Employer type
NHS
Site
Homebased
Town
Homebased
Salary
£74,290 - £85,601 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/05/2025 23:59
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services logo

Head of Quality and Governance (Inclusion)

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Job overview

We are looking to recruit a highly enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and motivated individual as our Head of Clinical and Governance services for Inclusion's drug and alcohol, gambling harms, mental health, recovery college, employment and sexual health services which are based across England.

The post offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant difference to staff, service users and communities across Inclusion's service footprint in both the community and prisons.

The post holder will provide strategic leadership and oversight of quality and governance within Inclusion and will lead the deployment of the Trust and Group Quality Strategy across the Inclusion.

The Head of Quality and Governance will receive supervision and support from the Head of Inclusion who will, with the support of the Clinical Care Director , undertake an annual review of objectives, ensuring that this is built into the post holder’s annual appraisal.  The post will lead Inclusion’s Quality and Governance Team and will deputise when required to support operational delivery across service types when required as part of the Inclusion SLT.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide strategic leadership and oversight of quality and governance within Inclusion.  They will work with the internal stakeholders at group level and external stakeholders across commissioner and partner organisations to ensure delivery of high quality, safe and effective care.

The post holder will be a key member of the Inclusion Leadership Team, working as part of Inclusion’s Collective Leadership Team, alongside the Deputy Heads of Operations, Professional and Corporate Leads and portfolio leads.  

They will also with the Head of Inclusion and the Head of Operations - Inclusion act as the Senior Leadership team for Inclusion.

The post holder will lead the deployment of the Trust Quality Strategy across Inclusion, holding Inclusion responsibility for patient safety and governance arrangements, representing Inclusion at Trust-wide and external Quality committees and meetings. 

Working for our organisation

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health.
 
We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are.
 
Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description & Person Spec for further details, a summary is below:

  • Contribute to the strategic leadership of Inclusion supporting in the development and deployment of Inclusion  and the Group vision and business plan.
  • Leading the deployment of effective quality assurance and governance systems and processes across Inclusion, working in conjunction with the Heads and Deputy Heads of Operations.
  • Acting as an expert quality resource and ensuring the sustained delivery of high standards of care and service delivery, to staff, service users and the public.
  • Contribute to the group level Quality and Performance meetings, reporting into the Care Group Management Team and Trust Quality Governance Committee on quality and governance matters.
  • Ensuring that patient and public involvement and experience is at the core of service redesign and development.
  • Lead the preparation and delivery of the Care Group Quality Improvement plan, as part of the Business Planning process.
  • Ensure that all quality requirements set out by the system and commissioners are measured and reported in line with contractual and system requirements and lead improvement planning where required (including the delivery of CQUINS).
  • Support annual negotiation of contracts in relation to quality and performance measures, deal with contact quality queries and represent the Care Group / Trust at Contract Quality Review Meetings (CQRM) with Clinical Commissioning Groups.
  • A Clinical Professional Registration is required e.g. Nursing/Psychology/Social Work etc to be able to provide appropriate leadership across the Group

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Professional/management qualification e.g. nursing/psychology, social work etc to be able to provide appropriate leadership across the Group
  • Masters Degree Level or demonstrate equivalent level of professional experience/knowledge

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience of implementing and managing Governance and Quality Systems.
  • Experience of planning and developing quality initiatives (this may be related to. For example, QI activities, audit or research programmes.
  • Experience of clinical governance, patient safety, patient experience and clinical quality.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge and understanding of the political context, and policy environment as they relate to Governance and Quality in health care provision.
  • Understands compliance frameworks and code of governance.
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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Danny Hames
Job title
Head of Inclusion & Sexual Health
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07814500080
Additional information

If you would like to know more and find out whether joining our dedicated team is for you then please get in touch with Danny Hames as we would love to hear from you.
 
**** We do not accept CVs. Applications will only be considered if made via the website.****
 
****This vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.****

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