Regional Head of Service, Quality and Patient Safety Lead

Job Purpose

The post holder will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of QPS priorities aligned to strategic goals Dublin and North East (DNE) including but not limited to:

• Development of the Regional Quality and Patient Safety strategic goals and operational plans and manage implementation of same across the Region, aligned with the HSE Patient Safety Strategy, the HSE National Service Plan, the National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare and other relevant strategies and standards.
• In line with Regional and National requirements ensure that appropriate governance structures are in place to support, monitor and report on the performance of quality and safety of services across the Region.
• Provide strategic leadership in delivering safe, high‑quality, patient‑centred services, and support the RCD in the continued development and enhancement of clinical governance structures to ensure robust management and monitoring of quality and patient safety across the Region
• Provide strategic oversight for the implementation of quality, safety, and service‑improvement strategies, ensuring consistent, standardised planning, execution, and performance across the Region

Collaborate with Office of HSE Chief Clinical Officer and National Quality and Patient Safety at national level, to support and enable quality and patient safety developments (including open disclosure, incident management, the management of Patient Complaints, clinical audit, data for improvement, quality improvement etc), ensuring that regional and national efforts are synchronised for effective service delivery and improvement.

Essential Criteria

Candidates must have at the latest date of application:

• Significant operational experience as a leader and senior manager in a complex role within a health service environment which has involved patient safety improvement, risk management, incident management and investigations as relevant to this role.

• A track record of delivering on the quality and patient safety agenda across one or more roles at a senior management level.

• A strong track record of planning and delivering organisational change in a complex environment involving multiple stakeholders.

• Experience in managing and working collaboratively cross functionally with multiple internal and external stakeholders, as relevant to this role.

• Have the requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability and management ability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.

• Hold a relevant third level healthcare qualification at level 9 or equivalent.

Job Spec Attached

Regional QPS Lead job spec

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