# Quality and Safety Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/quality-and-safety-lead/110955b0-0bca-437c-b1de-60d3259c818e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/quality-and-safety-lead/110955b0-0bca-437c-b1de-60d3259c818e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** North View - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Lead (legacy management group) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** 12 months (Covering secondment) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-15T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-01T09:03:11.995Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Wigan/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8191428 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8191428?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting 12 months secondment opportunity, has arisen, to work as part of the Specialist Services Care group in the role of Quality and Safety Lead for Community CAMHS Services (Part Time 0.6 WTE) Reporting directly to Clinical Services Manager, you will work as an integral part of the Care group, ensuring high quality care is provided to patients and their families, building on the "outstanding" work achieved so far. The Quality and Safety lead role is the cornerstone of improving the quality of patient care. They do this through visible, inclusive leadership and engagement with patients and families, frontline staff and senior management teams. ### Main duties of the job The Quality and safety Lead will support the Clinical Services Manager and the wider team to deliver clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, high quality clinical care and consistent achievement of care standards. This will be in line with the nationally agreed 10 key responsibilities set out in the matrons handbook as below: - Inclusive leadership, professional standards and accountability - Governance, patient safety and quality - Workforce planning and resource management - Patient experience and reducing health inequalities - Performance and operational oversight - Digital and information technology - Education, training and development - Research and development - Collaborative working and clinical effectiveness - Service improvement and transformation. The post holder will deliver transformation of clinical services to best meet the needs of the population within the care group. As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team the post holder will provide Quality Leadership to facilitate consistent best practice, this will include taking a key role in the future shaping and development of services. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities See attached detailed job description and person specification: Staff benefits - Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays. - 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years - Excellent pension - Cycle to work scheme - Salary sacrifice car scheme - Wellbeing programme - Blue Light Card Discounts ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Leadership **Essential** - Planning and decision making skills. In particular an ability to contribute to strategic planning. - Proven ability to create effective working relationships and build teams - Experience of working with service users in the health/ social care field which must include community services ### Senior operational/clinical experience **Essential** - Professional qualification (RN, AHP) - Extensive experience of working in a clinical setting in a quality, clinical, leadership/managerial position. - Evidence of post registration or further professional development in the relevant field. - - A Leadership / Management Qualification (or equivalent experience) **Desirable** - Experience of CAMHS - Post graduate qualification or experience in associated quality governance roles - Evidence of ongoing professional development. - Knowledge of safeguarding and the legal duties expected of NHS organisations - Knowledge and experience of delivering Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agendas ### Experience of quality improvement/initiatives **Essential** - Experience of a quality improvement initiative - - Awareness of Key Performance indicators to support the achievement of local and national targets. **Desirable** - QI training at silver level ## Documents - [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 520.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10496155) ## 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.