Associate Director of Quality and Clinical Standards

Associate Director of Quality and Clinical Standards NHS AfC: Band 8d

Main area: Quality and Clinical Standards

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8d

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 985-NCLICB-CNO_167-B

Site: Laycock PDC

Town: Islington

Salary: £96,340 - £109,849 per annum including HCA

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 16/02/:59

Interview date: 04/03/2025

On 1 July 2022, NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) was established. The ICB is part of North Central London Integrated Care System (ICS). The ICS is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our five boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington.

NCL ICB values our staff, our partners and their expertise to deliver the best health and care possible for the patients and residents of North Central London.

Job overview

Working in conjunction with the Director and Deputy Director of Quality & Standards, the post holder will provide clinical leadership within the ICB and across the ICS and its five boroughs for the ongoing development and sustainability of a high quality and innovative infection prevention and control service across NCL so that the ICB delivers its responsibilities in relation to IPC and anti-microbial stewardship at system and local level.

The Associate Director of Quality and Clinical Standards will adopt a matrix approach to work across the boroughs of Barnet and Camden, working with the support of the Director of Place so that the ICB delivers its responsibilities in relation to both the NHS System Oversight Framework and population health improvement and reducing inequalities in health care.

Working closely with ICS and ICB colleagues, the postholder will be a key player in building partnerships and collaborating with providers, public health, local authority, other partners (e.g. voluntary sector) and local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes, and reductions in health inequality, as well as inspiring and motivating clinical colleagues to effect change through their involvement in transformational work.

The postholder will report into the Director of Quality & Clinical Standards and line manage the Patient Safety and Quality specialist responsible for delivering the patient safety portfolio.

Main duties of the job

Our ICB strategy for population health improvement will be underpinned by quality, clinical and people strategies which set out a commitment to develop, grow and support clinical leaders from all professional backgrounds to play a central and crucial system leadership role in designing and delivering equitable, high quality person-centred care to our patients and residents.

Person specification Education/ Knowledge and Qualifications

• Educated to master's level in a health-related subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level.
• Extensive knowledge of quality assurance and governance, continuing health care, quality improvement, patient safety and patient experience and engagement and clinical and professional standards.
• Evidence of active continuing professional development and managerial development to support delivery of senior management role.
• Quality Improvement Qualification.
• Registered nurse or midwife with current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Experience

• Previous experience of leading clinical governance patient safety or standards work at a senior level with demonstrable improvements in provision.
• Experience of successfully delivering approaches to improve and embed quality in providers within a partnership environment.
• Proven ability to influence a range of stakeholders and demonstrable commitment to partnership working and delivery with a range of external organisations.
• Experience of designing systems to support quality governance and experience in shaping policy and setting objectives aligned to wider NHS and strategic objectives.
• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking, and planning with highly developed political skills.
• Responsible for a budget involved in budget setting and a working knowledge of financial processes.
• Experience leading on the Equality and Diversity agenda for an NHS organisation.
• Commissioning experience.
• Experience of carrying out a leadership role in clinical commissioning with acute provider(s).
• Experience in leading and appraising investigations into Serious Incidents and commissioning activities using Root Cause Analysis.
• Experience improving provider safety in specific areas through a variety of commissioning activities.
• Experience of acting on feedback from primary care clinicians/GPs to improve provider service delivery.

Skills and abilities

• Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes. Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation.
• Highly developed communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to communicate on complex matters and difficult situations and to a range of audiences.
• The ability to question information and explanations supplied by others, who may be experts in their field.
• Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.

Communication

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to influence and persuade others at all levels within and across the organisation, articulating a balanced view and able to constructively question information from others.
• Good presentation skills and able to adapt presentation skills to different audiences.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies when we have received sufficient applications to shortlist.