Cardiac Quality & Safety Manager

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Are you passionate about improving the quality of healthcare? We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Cardiac Quality and Safety Manager to join our directorate management team. You will provide patient safety advice and, in collaboration with the directorate governance team, lead on safety-related activities. You will also play a key role in providing clinical quality advice and support to our multidisciplinary teams across the directorate.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) is one of the largest NHS Acute Trusts in the country and, in partnership with Imperial College London, is one of the UK's first academic health sciences centres (AHSCs). The creation of the AHSC is a major advance for patient care, clinical teaching, and scientific innovation. We strive for excellence, ambition, and innovation, and are passionate about the quality of care we deliver to our patients.

Hammersmith Hospital, ICHT's specialist hospital based in East Acton, is renowned for its strong research connections. It offers a range of services including renal, haematology, cancer, and cardiology care, and provides the regional specialist heart attack centre.

The Directorate offers further development tailored to the successful candidate, including both leadership and clinical components.

If you are passionate about improving healthcare quality and safety, we invite you to apply and join our dedicated team at Hammersmith Hospital!

Main duties of the job

The 'must haves' for this role:

• Registered nurses and allied health professionals with a keen interest in quality, safety, and governance.
• Experience in patient safety and quality systems.
• Strong communication and organisational skill

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate knowledge and experience of patient safety and quality systems.
• Work effectively with a wide range of people within the directorate across our acute and community services as well as the Trust.
• Lead the development of quality and safety reports for regular and ad hoc meetings.
• Support improvement and quality initiatives.
• Investigate incidents, write initial incident reports, and present at the Medical Directors Panel.
• Play a vital part in preparations for CQC inspections/visits and other external accreditation visits.
• Initiate and support quality initiatives across the directorate using Trust tools and platforms.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional
• Educated to at least degree level and equivalent experience
• Recognised teaching / assessing Qualification

Desirable criteria

• Leadership and Management Training/Experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of working at Band 7 level or above
• Experience and knowledge of quality Standards, undertaking audits, surveys and research
• Knowledge and understanding of current issues in speciality and wider NHS

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of quality improvement methodology and principles
• Previous project management or leadership experience

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Sound understanding of quality initiatives, risk and clinical governance
• Ability to understand and act on complex pieces of information
• IT Skills
• Ability to meet deadlines

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 576.1KB)
• Function Requirement Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)