Quality Lead

Are you proactive and take pride in driving best practice? If so, join Thornford Park as our Quality Lead, working to continuously improving the Quality of service delivered and ensuring our compliance of CQC Regulations, NHSE Expectations and other external regulatory bodies.

What you will be doing

As our Quality Lead you will lead on Quality and Compliance within Thornford Park Hospital, providing clear communication, direction, support and active involvement in achieving the standards and quality required.

Working 37.5 hours a week, you will be providing support across a range of areas including developing systems, delivering and arranging training and embed changes to ensure the sites meet all regulatory, clinical, quality and corporate requirements.

You will liaise with senior leaders across Thornford Park around our regulatory compliance standards, contractual reporting and our site Quality Improvement Plan. You will also be managing a Quality and Compliance Co-ordinator.

As our Quality Lead you will be:

• Managing Thornford Park’s compliance to the standards within all contracts ensuring information submissions and recording meets set deadlines and quality.
• Working with colleagues across all of levels, which could go from working with HCAs and service users one moment, to a meeting with the Senior Management Team the next.
• Leading with impact, including with our audit schedule and working with colleagues to give audits meaning
• Working to follow up actions, complete projects, ensuring compliance with all statutory requests and regulatory bodies.
• Work in partnership with stakeholders across local health communities to facilitate improvements in clinical quality.
• Providing and leading on assurance that corporate, regional and local policies and procedures are in place and implemented.
• Developing quality at Thornford Park through our governance systems and quality improvement plan
• Interested in quality improvement, driving quality and being a role model
• Line managing a Quality & Compliance Coordinator

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• To interpret data to give it meaning to clinical colleagues
• To train, coach and develop people in areas you lead
• To understand audits and audit processes
• To complete compliance reports for external submission
• To be able to manage Strong team-working skills
• A high level of self-motivation and a flexible approach
• A positive attitude and be naturally caring and compassionate
• A commitment to high-quality care and to values and evidence-based practice

Where you will be working:

Location: Thornford Park, Crookham Hill, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG19 8ET

You will be working at Thornford Park, a 141 bedded independent hospital which supports service users that require medium and low secure Forensic Mental Health Services. In addition to these services there is also a PICU Mental Health Service.

The service provides a seamless internal care pathway supporting and empowering people in their recovery and rehabilitation.

Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will provide personalised assessment and treatment programmes for males with mental illness/complex care needs as well as those with personality disorder, and females and males in a PICU service. 

What you will get:

• Annual salary of up to £40,000
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
• There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.
• There are also career development opportunities, with a huge range of courses that will help you grow and succeed. If you have the aspiration, capability and dedication, we can give you the support and opportunities to help you achieve your career goals.

About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. 

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. 

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.