# Perinatal Quality Assurance Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-quality-assurance-lead/dcfca456-5b72-49d6-8df0-02d9d44dfed3 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-quality-assurance-lead/dcfca456-5b72-49d6-8df0-02d9d44dfed3.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust - **Location:** Leicester Royal Infirmary - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Lead (legacy administrative group) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 pa - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-30T07:10:40.467Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Leicestershire/Leicester/University_Hospitals_Leicester_NHS_Trust/Senior_Assurance_Compliance_Manager/Senior_Assurance_Compliance_Manager-v8331672 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8331672?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking expressions of interest for a Perinatal Quality Assurance Lead to establish and lead a dedicated perinatal assurance function across UHL . This is a new and exciting opportunity to shape how we deliver clear, robust and transparent assurance from frontline care through to Board-level oversight. ### Main duties of the job The Perinatal Quality Assurance Lead will play a key role in delivering a systematic, intelligence-led approach to assurance, providing a clear line of sight across safety, quality, workforce and performance. You will: - Develop and coordinate Perinatal assurance reporting - Triangulate data from incidents, complaints, workforce, performance and audit - Support Board and committee reporting, ensuring information is clear, accurate and actionable - Enable early identification, escalation and management of risk - Strengthen regulatory readiness including CQC, NHS Resolution MIS Year 8 and national reviews (Ockenden, Amos, Thirlwall) ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities This role is central to ensuring we can demonstrate: - Robust and credible assurance to Boards and regulators - Improved visibility and management of risk - Delivery of national safety and quality requirements - A consistent and standardised approach across the It directly supports the success of the perinatal accountability and assurance operating model We are seeking individuals who: - Have strong experience in governance, assurance, or quality improvement - Are confident working with complex data and intelligence - Can communicate clearly with senior leaders and committees - Are highly organised, analytical and detail-focused - Are motivated to improve outcomes for women, babies and families ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Strong skills in project coordination, report writing, data interpretation, stakeholder engagement and the use of governance, audit and quality improvement tools to support delivery, oversight and service improvement. ### Training **Essential** - Degree level qualification or equivalent experience gained in a large, complex healthcare organisation. - Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to governance, assurance, quality improvement, service improvement or programme delivery. **Desirable** - Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant field, with training or qualification in quality improvement, project or programme management, governance, audit or risk management. ### Experience **Essential** - Substantial experience of leading assurance, compliance, governance, quality improvement or service · Knowledge of NHS governance, assurance, quality and risk arrangements. Application, Interview improvement activity within a healthcare setting. - Experience of developing and maintaining action plans, assurance frameworks, governance reports and evidence systems to support delivery and oversight. - Experience of preparing high-quality reports, presentations and updates for senior leaders, committees and boards. - Experience of working with complex qualitative and quantitative information, triangulating evidence and presenting clear conclusions and recommendations. - Experience of managing competing priorities, working to deadlines and influencing delivery across multidisciplinary teams and organisational boundaries - Experience of audit, service review, risk management or quality improvement methodology to support assurance and service development. - Evidence of achieving transformation which has resulted in positive change in the health and/or social care setting - Management experience to include experience of having undertaken change management. - Project management at a senior level with evidence of leading and managing improvement projects. - Experience of analysing complex data with multiple components of information in both qualitative and quantitative formats - Experience of undertaking audits and using improvement methodology within change projects. - Experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders - Knowledge of research, audit, data collection and analysis methodologies - Specialist knowledge, practical application and experience in change management, modernisation, service redesign, facilitation and successful implementation of service improvements at a senior level - Competent in theory and application of service improvement tools and techniques. - Ability to manage competing demands, deadlines and a pressured environment. **Desirable** - Knowledge of NHS governance, assurance, quality and risk arrangements. - Knowledge of national maternity and neonatal policy, recommendations and review programmes relevant to perinatal services - Understanding of NHS structures, system working and the wider health and care landscape. - Knowledge and understanding of NHS commissioning and benchmarking. - Knowledge of perinatal services and the NHS national delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services ### Analytical and Judgement skills **Essential** - Strong analytical and problem - solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex information, identify themes, risks and gaps, and develop practical options and recommendations. - Ability to exercise sound judgement on complex and sometimes contentious issues, balancing risk, evidence and organisational priorities. - Ability to anticipate issues, take a strategic view and respond proactively to emerging requirements. - Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options and solutions. - Takes decisions on contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action. - Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise. ### Planning and organisation skills **Essential** - Demonstrable ability to plan and organise work programmes over the short, medium and long term, managing multiple priorities and deadlines effectively. - Ability to coordinate complex work across teams and organisations, ensuring actions, risks, evidence and reporting requirements are delivered in a timely way ### Equality, Diversity and Inclusion **Essential** - Able to demonstrate a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and to treating all individuals with dignity and respect, supporting equitable access, inclusive practice and culturally sensitive care ### Communication and relationship skills **Essential** - Highly developed communication, influencing and negotiation skills, with the ability to work credibly with senior clinical, operational and corporate leaders. - Ability to communicate complex, sensitive or contentious information clearly and appropriately to a wide range of audiences. - Ability to prepare and present concise, evidence -based written and verbal reports for committees, boards and external stakeholders. - Ability to present complex and sensitive information to groups of staff from multidisciplinary backgrounds at all levels of the organisation - Ability to present to large groups including the public as necessary. ### Other requirements specific to the role **Essential** - Ability to travel across UHL sites and work flexibly to meet the needs of the service. - Commitment to maintaining confidentiality, professional credibility and a high standard of accuracy in all assurance and compliance work **Desirable** - Experience of working across more than one site, organisation or system footprint - Knowledge of perinatal services across maternity and neonatal pathways. ## Documents - [jd and ps (pdf, 318.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10655045) - [employee benefits (pdf, 578.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2350) - [understanding your right to work in the uk (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2349) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.