Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge? Wye Valley NHS Trust are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic person to join our diagnostics team and take a lead in the accreditation of the brand new Community Diagnostic Centre due to open later this Summer. The Community Diagnostic Centre will incorporate Imaging (Plain X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI), a range of cardiorespiratory investigations including echocardiography, ECG and rhythm monitoring, blood pressure monitoring, spirometry, FeNO, lung function tests, simple field tests, sleep investigations, oximetry, blood gas analysis and pathology services in a "one stop" location to obtain diagnostic information in cancer, cardiac, respiratory, musculo-skeletal and other conditions.

Community Diagnostic Centre

This is a key leadership role within Wye Valley Trust to lead on Accreditation, Compliance and Quality Assurance. This role will be crucial in achieving and maintaining the various accreditations required at the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) that will come on line in 2025 as well as ensuring compliance with the Trusts governance and risk framework. This post holder will have a key role in developing improvement plans and developing an improvement culture.

Main duties of the job
Lead on the accreditation assessment for all services based at the CDC e.g. Quality Standards for Imaging (QSI) for Radiology, Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) for Heart and Lung Services. Ensure that documentation for such accreditation and annual audits are prepared.

Responsible for implementing a robust document control/quality management system, I Passport.

The post holder will be responsible for delivering the Quality and Clinical Governance Agenda for the CDC

About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job responsibilities
Please refer to attached job description/personal specification to view the full range of duties and responsibilities

Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential

• Educated to Masters level (or evidence of equivalent experience) with significant demonstrable experience working at this level
• Qualification in Quality Improvement, working towards or equivalent experience
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential

• Excellent communication, leadership and negotiation skills
• Presenting complex, sensitive or contentious information to a large group of staff
• Excellent presentation skills and experience in formal and informal staff development and training
• Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion

Experience
Essential

• Significant experience of senior NHS managerial/supervisory level
• Experience of change management
• Experience of developing and managing quality based systems and audits

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.