Director of Nursing and Quality
| Posting date: | 21 May 2026 |
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| Salary: | £110,000.00 to £140,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £110000.00 - £140000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 June 2026 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV1 2NJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | D9105-0526-005 |
Summary
To provide strategic leadership and oversight of quality assurance, clinical governance and regulatory compliance across the ICBs, ensuring that all commissioned services deliver safe, effective and person-centred care. Working closely with the Chief Nursing Officer, system partners and regulators, the postholder will drive continuous improvement, proactively manage quality risks, and embed a strong culture of learning, accountability and high performance across the system. Key Accountabilities Hold strategic responsibility for the ICBs quality portfolio, including quality assurance and improvement, clinical governance, patient safety, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, and regulatory compliance. Lead the development and implementation of the ICBs quality assurance framework, ensuring alignment with national policy, regulatory requirements and local priorities. Oversee robust systems for monitoring, reporting and improving quality across all commissioned services in line with the Strategic Commissioning Framework. Provide strategic leadership for clinical governance, ensuring effective systems for incident management, safeguarding, risk identification and organisational learning. Ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, including CQC standards, NHS England frameworks and safeguarding legislation. Act as the ICBs senior lead for engagement with regulators, coordinating inspections, reviews and system improvement responses. Provide clear, evidence-based assurance to the Chief Nursing Officer and ICB Boards on the quality, safety and performance of services. Lead coordinated, multi-agency responses to serious incidents, safeguarding issues and emerging quality risks. Champion patient safety and experience, ensuring that feedback, complaints and lived experience drive continuous improvement. Lead implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and other national quality and safety initiatives. As a strategic commissioner our aim is to improve population health, reduce health inequalities and improve access to high-quality services. All ICB Directors will provide dynamic, visible leadership to deliver significant and sustained improvements in care and outcomes for the local population and will hold collective responsibility for Using high quality data analysis, dialogue and expertise to inform decision making, target interventions and evaluate the success of commissioned services. Working collaboratively across the Integrated Care Systems (ICS) to commission integrated, person-centred services to best improve the health and wellbeing of the local population and reduce health inequalities. Contributing to and influencing provider collaboratives, place-based partnerships, and clinical leadership forums to ensure commissioning decisions are joined-up and co-produced. Promoting innovation and best practice, including the adoption of digital solutions, personalised care, and preventative models. Transforming the clustered ICB to deliver the draft Strategic Commissioning Framework. Provide on-call cover. As part of your application, please disclose if you have recently been in receipt of the Mutually Agreed Resignation Scheme (MARS) or Voluntary Redundancy. Please note that this information is collected solely for administrative purposes; it will not form any part of the selection process.