About this role
Job summary
NHS Band 8A Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Hours per Week: Full Time 37.5
Contract: Permanent
Location Base: De La Court House, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Southwick Hill Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3LY
To apply: Please submit CV and Covering Letter
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional leader to join our Single Corporate Services team as the Head of Patient Outcomes. This pivotal post supports both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, working collaboratively to ensure we continue to provide safe, effective, and high-quality care across both organisations.
Reporting to the Associate Director of Quality Governance and accountable to the Chief Nurse. You will work collaboratively with the Chief Medical Officer and Associate Medical Directors of Patient Outcomes, to ensure both Trusts meet their legal and regulatory obligations associated with patient outcomes and to ensure that there are robust arrangements in place to continue to be well led organisations. This includes:
National audits & benchmarking (e.g., NCEPOD) NICE compliance GIRFT Mortality & the Learning from Deaths programme Triangulation of quality, performance & safety data to drive meaningful improvement.
You will also oversee the Patient Outcomes Team, providing expert leadership, governance oversight, and assurance to senior executives and committees across both Trusts.
Main duties of the job
Specific Core Functions:
Accountable for the oversight of maintain good data quality used for reporting and managing mortality data, patient outcomes data, NICE guidelines, national audits, and for ensuring that these systems are fit for purpose. Provide senior leadership and expert oversight to triangulate patient outcomes data with information from wider Trust programmes including performance, strategy, patient experience, and patient safety to deliver a holistic assessment of care quality and identify opportunities for improvement. Responsible for reporting patient outcomes issues internally to the Board of Directors and externally to relevant agencies. Support on the delivery of the Group governance structures in relation to patient outcomes. This includes ensuring that Trust-wide outcomes committees operate within the Trusts governance framework and deliver against key standards. Ensure data from each team is systematically brought together and crosschecked with patient outcomes information so that Trust wide learning is identified and acted upon consistently and in a timely manner, working collaboratively with Divisions, Care Groups, and Corporate Teams. Work with the Patient Safety, Patient Experience, Risk, Health and Safety, Security and Compliance teams to enable consolidation of data to flag emerging concerns and risks.
About us
Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.
The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Job description Job responsibilities
Why Join Us?
You'll be joining a forward-thinking, collaborative team working across two innovative NHS Trusts. We are committed to professional development, inclusive leadership, and fostering a culture of learning and excellence. You'll have the opportunity to influence at a senior level and shape the future of quality governance across both organisations.
Job purpose
To ensure both Trusts fulfil their legal and regulatory obligations relating to patient outcomes, clinical effectiveness, the Learning from Deaths programme, NICE, GIRFT, and national audits, and to maintain robust governance arrangements that support strong and well led organisations. This includes providing assurance and escalating issues where necessary.
Key Responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationships
The post holder will be providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required. This may be because agreement or co-operation is required or because there are barriers to understanding and/or presenting complex, sensitive, or contentious information to a large group of staff.
Analytical and Judgement
Judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.
Planning and organising
The post holder will be responsible for formulating long-term, strategic plans, which involve uncertainty, and which may impact across the whole organisation.
Physical Skills
The post requires physical skills which are normally obtained through practice over a period of time or during practical training e.g. standard driving or keyboard skills, use of some tools and types of equipment.
Patient Client Care
Assists patients/clients/relatives during incidental contacts.
Policy and Service Development
The post holder is responsible for major policy implementation and policy or service development, which impacts across or beyond the organisation.
Financial Management
The post holder holds a delegated budget from a budget for a department/service.
For further details please refer to enclosed Job Description.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Management qualification master's qualification in a health-related management, or business management subject, or equivalent training & experience. Clinical experience registrant NMC/HCPC with up to date and active registration. Demonstrates evidence of commitment to professional development.
Desirable
Analytics or business intelligence. Project management qualification.
Experience Essential
Experience of relevant leadership/management roles in the health sector. Experience of regulatory assurance management. Experience of using analytics and business intelligence to provide senior managers with information for decision making. Experience of working and influencing at a senior level and leading a team or service. Experience of supporting strategy development, impacting on the wider organisation. Experience of achieving changed clinical practice or service transformation.
Desirable
Proven track record at a senior level in a patient outcomes or clinical effectiveness related field in a large complex healthcare organisation.
Skills and Knowledge Essential
Thorough and up to date knowledge of health professional theory and best practice, particularly within speciality areas and the application of this in practice. Able to gain credibility with and influence clinicians, managers and speciality leads including influencing clinical changes where appropriate.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Address Queen Alexandra Hospital
Southwick Hill Road
Cosham
Portsmouth
PO6 3LY
Employer's website https://www.iow.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)