Job summary
- Main area
- CoN
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (N/A)
- Job ref
- 325-7098326-CORP
- Employer
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust Headquarters
- Town
- Leatherhead
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Quality Assurance Lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
The role of the post holder is to support the Quality assurance programme.
The key tasks for this role is to ensure we meet our policy compliance demands and to support the wider functions of the clinical audit and CARE excellence accreditation teams and quality assurance work streams.
This role requires a highly organised individual with solid project management skills and experience of working across professional and organisational boundaries to help deliver sustainable improvement.
Main duties of the job
· Responsibility for policy assurance, ensuring our policies meet the required standards, are in date, shared and consulted upon accordingly.
· Ensure policies meet the required standards including how they are formatted.
· Liaise with a range of staff of all levels and supporting them to ensure their policies meet the required standards.
· Arranging and facilitating the Policy assurance group ensuring there is good representation.
· Supporting those with lived experience who support the Policy assurance group.
· Produce a formal report to update on Policy compliance.
· Support the CARE excellence accreditation work as required through supporting reviews and undertaking observations.
· Support the NICE compliance work as required with the Clinical audit department to ensure gap analysis are undertaken for all relevant guidance.
· Support the Quality accounts work as required to ensure information is gathered in a timely manner.
· Support Clinical audit department as required with occasional data collection and data inputting.
· Support adhoc Quality assurance work as required.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.
We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached Job Description
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- • Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant corporate experience in the NHS or social care.
- • Evidence of recent and relevant continuing professional development i.e NHS Leadership Academy
- • Programme and project management experience/qualification e.g., Prince 2/MSP or equivalent.
- • Significant experience of working in a similar role i.e., 3 years
- • Knowledge and experience of delivering quality assurance projects.
- • Knowledge and experience of managing policies and procedures.
Desirable
Desirable criteria
- • Registered Mental Health or Learning Disabilities Nursing Qualification (will consider other specialty nursing qualification) desirable.
- • Experience of working in the NHS and the public sector; experience of working within the mental health and learning disability sector is desirable but not essential.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- LISA MUSSELWHITE
- Job title
- Associate Director of Quality and Assurance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07717715850
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