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The Clinical Audit and Quality Lead plays a key role in supporting the quality team to ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks and governance standards across all services. The role involves leading and conducting clinical audits, advising operational and clinical teams, and promoting best practice to drive continuous improvement. The postholder will work closely with leadership and frontline colleagues to maintain healthy governance, identify early signs of risk, and implement proactive measures to enhance safety and quality. This includes fostering a culture of openness, person-centred care, and positive learning, while embedding quality as a core responsibility throughout the organisation.
Job Responsibility:
Ensure all services meet statutory and regulatory requirements, working towards regulator goals and ambitions, and provide targeted support to maintain compliance
Promote a culture of Outstanding care, openness, responsiveness, person-centred recovery, positive learning, and safety, embedding quality as a daily responsibility for all staff
Lead and support audits, mock inspections, and peer reviews to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities, using findings to drive continuous improvement and best practice
Provide advice, guidance, and practical support to operational teams, managers, and quality colleagues, acting as a role model and maintaining accessibility to service users and families
Collaborate with governance teams and stakeholders (e.g., CQC, NHS bodies) to maintain robust systems, policies, and relationships, and contribute to service improvement plans and quality strategies
Analyse data and intelligence to identify themes, develop improvement plans, and report findings
deliver training and support safeguarding, QI initiatives, and patient safety investigations
Produce clear, accurate audit reports and escalate where required. Provide feedback on quality performance to the senior clinical audit and quality lead or Head of clinical audit & quality
Support implementation and maintenance of systems (e.g., EPR, RADAR) and promote service user involvement in quality and safety developments
Support the Head of Clinical Audit & Quality in projects and tasks that align with the Quality strategy, including Internal Reviews
Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of audit activity and outcomes
Support and advise clinical audit champions and staff involved in audit activity
Promote engagement in clinical audit and quality improvement across services
Requirements:
Experience working in clinical audit, quality, governance, or service improvement
Strong knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements, relevant legislation, and national health and social care policies
Professional qualification or equivalent experience in quality-related roles, with sound understanding of the clinical audit cycle and quality improvement principles
Understanding of best practice, national standards, and guidelines
Strong problem-solving, analytical, and report-writing skills
Ability to manage and deliver audits independently with appropriate support