Quality and Safety Lead
NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
Maidstone, ME15 6NB
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
13 September 2026
10 days left
Job description
The Quality and Safety Lead for Community, Primary Care and Neighbourhoods supports the monitoring and improvement of quality and safety across a dive...
- To support the quality monitoring of providers contracted by NHS Kent and Medway ICB.
- To coordinate initiatives with system partners to improve quality of care and treatment.
- To understand the National Quality Board Guidance on quality oversight and improvement.
- Work in partnership with providers to ensure clear assurance of high quality care is provided to the Integrated Care Board (ICB). As defined by the National Quality Board.
- To support the development and management of quality systems gaining assurance that services being delivered are of high quality and in line with clinical guidance and contractual requirements.
- Support a portfolio of initiatives to obtain and maintain, high quality care within the financial envelope available.
- Support the implementation and ongoing embedding of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy within the relevant portfolio, promoting a proactive, learning focused approach to safety.
- Contribute to the delivery of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) by supporting providers to adopt the new approach, ensuring high quality incident reporting, proportionate responses and meaningful learning.
- Work with the ICB Patient Safety Specialist and Quality Managers to strengthen the use of the Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) system, ensuring accurate reporting, improved data quality and effective use of insights
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
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We are committed to a culture that supports all staff at NHS Kent and Medway to be the best version of themselves.
Our ability to improve outcomes for our population depends on how effectively clinical, operational, financial and strategic professionals work together to make informed commissioning decisions. That's why our workforce works a minimum of two days-a-week on-site, with the expectation that all one-to-ones are held face-to-face and that colleagues will regularly visit the services we are commissioning to understand more about them.
We believe regular on-site working supports stronger collaboration, faster problem-solving, peer learning, visible leadership and the integration of colleagues into our organisation. We also know that culture is built through shared experiences and day-to-day interactions.
We are a flexible working friendly organisation; we aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Personal Values
Essential
- Commitment to the principles of public life, NHS values, the NHS People Plan and ICB values
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent qualification/experience
- Patient Safety Incident Response Framework Training Level 1 and 2 as well as additional PSIRF Oversight and methodology training
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
Desirable
- Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) Training Level 3 and 4, or working towards completion
Attributes
Essential
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Used to working in a busy environment
Competencies
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems for the South East
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
2 September 2026
Last checked
3 September 2026
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