# Associate Director for Quality

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Worthing
- **Region:** South East
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Manager and corporate
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £48.26 - £55.65 per hour
- **Contract type:** Bank: 3 months (3-4 days per week)
- **Employment type:** 30 hours per week (3-4 days a week part time)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-29T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23T14:23:20.218Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Sussex/Worthing/University_Hospitals_Sussex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Quality/Quality-v8178912
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8178912?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Associate Director of Quality, Band 8d– Bank Opportunity

Three-month assignment.  3 – 4 days a week, hybrid working

University Hospitals Sussex is seeking an experienced senior quality leader to provide immediate bank cover while recruitment to the longer-term (3 year fixed-term contract) role is completed.

The Trust is preparing for an Independent Maternity Review, commissioned by the Department of Health, which is due to begin in October 2026. The review will examine around 1,000 cases and will be highly sensitive for families, staff and the wider organisation.

### Main duties of the job

The postholder will provide senior leadership for the Trust’s response, including quality and corporate governance, information management, data, communications, wellbeing, professional standards and liaison with external bodies. They will help establish the systems and processes needed to support the review and coordinate clinical and corporate experts across the Trust.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for a calm, credible and experienced NHS quality leader with a strong understanding of patient safety, complaints, clinical effectiveness, medico-legal processes, governance and regulation. Experience in women’s and children’s services or a major external review would be beneficial. You will need excellent judgement, political awareness and the ability to build trusted relationships with staff, partners and families while working under significant scrutiny.

## Person Specification

### Critera

**Essential**

- Meets criteria

## Documents

- [jd and person specification (pdf, 240.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10481958)
- [all staff networks about us flyer (pdf, 304.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2583)
- [guide to completing an application form (pdf, 385.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2915)

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