Head of Clinical Effectiveness and Assurance

To provide support, leadership and development within the Compliance and Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Teams to ensure the efficient and effective development and management of the teams’ regulatory activity.

To ensure services are prepared for CQC visits, Mental Health Act Monitoring Visits and supported to respond to findings through a total quality management process. To work collaboratively with the Triumvirates / Quadumvirate within the Divisions.

To work across the Trust ensuring teams deliver recovery focused care to patients in line with specific standards regulated by the Care Quality Commission. (CQC). To update CQC-related staff information and lead the implementation of a transformational approach that places corporate quality and compliance at the heart of service delivery.

The post holder will interpret and analyse national, regional, and local regulations and policies relating to compliance, providing timely reports to senior managers and frontline staff on organisational

implications and requirements. This role ensures that the Trust continues to advance in clinical quality governance and compliance, aligning with the highest national standards.

• Develop, lead and support the Trust’s approach to CQC regulatory activity and preparedness.
• Undertake Assurance Visits of services across Trust sites offering support, oversight and guidance to the staff team through supervision and leadership.

• Act as the expert and demonstrate excellent practice in the safe application of relevant, up to date legislation and national directives including relevant CQC regulatory requirements, the Health, Safety and Welfare at Work Act, Safeguarding etc within the team.

• The postholder will work closely with the Deputy Director Quality Governance to meet statutory obligations and standards for healthcare governance.

to improve the lives of people who live, work and volunteer on the Fylde Coast and beyond.

To deliver safe, effective, sustainable care for everyone, every day.

The Trust’s values "
Caring, Safe and Respectful
" help to represent the culture of the Trust and to communicate who the Trust is and how they do things. They also play an important part in encouraging people to come and work and be part of the Trust themselves.

In January 2022 we invited staff, patients, carers, the local community, and key partners to be involved in the development of our  strategy.

Following this engagement, we developed the strategy to clearly indicate our vision - to improve the lives of people who live, work and volunteer on the Fylde Coast and beyond. The approach we took to do this was key and shows that we are committed to listening to our staff and actively engaging patients in how we deliver safe, effective, sustainable care for everyone, every day.

Together, our engagement community told us what’s important to them:

• Being an employer of choice.
• Recruiting and retaining staff, especially from local areas.
• Growing excellence through training, education, research and innovation.
• Health promotion and prevention.
• Improving our impact on the environment.
• Creating safe, healthy environments to work and receive care in.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Angela Parfitt

Job title:

Deputy Director of Quality Governance Email address:  Telephone number: