Part-Time Quality Improvement & IG Lead Maternity Cover

Are you detail-driven, proactive, and passionate about improving clinical quality and patient experience? Join us as a Quality Improvement Lead, where you will play a central role in supporting the hospital to meet regulatory, contractual, and organisational standards, while driving continuous improvement across clinical and operational services.

In this role, you will support the hospital with the requirements of standard NHS contracts, including CQUIN, ensuring that information submissions are completed accurately, within deadlines, and to the highest quality. Working closely with Elysium Healthcare and external stakeholders across local health communities, you will help to facilitate improvements in clinical quality and enhance the overall experience of patients and families. You will ensure compliance standards—including those set by the CQC—are maintained, monitored, and embedded across the site.

A key part of the role involves developing systems and introducing sustainable changes that enable the hospital to meet regulatory, clinical, quality, and corporate requirements. You will take responsibility for ensuring the audit timetable is met, allocating audits appropriately, and supporting staff to complete, review, and re-audit areas as required. You will also ensure audit findings and actions are discussed within the Clinical Governance Committee so that outcomes translate into meaningful improvement.

What you will be doing:

• Support the hospital with the requirements within the standard NHS contracts (including CQUIN) ensuring information submissions and recording meets set deadlines and quality.
• Work in partnership with Elysium Healthcare and other stakeholders across local health communities to facilitate improvements in clinical quality and patient experience.
• Ensure compliance standards are met and maintained including CQC.
• Develop systems and embed changes to ensure the site meets all regulatory, clinical, quality and corporate requirements.
• Ensure the audit timetable is met and any additional audits are completed as required.
• Allocate and support the completion, review and re-audit of all audits further ensuring these are discussed within the local clinical governance committee and any actions are outcome.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Good IT skills.
• Oversight of compliance and respond to stakeholder queries on compliance.
• Experience in Mental Health services and a solid understanding of governance, safeguarding, and contractual reporting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with confidence engaging professionals at all levels.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Publisher).
• The ability to manage your workload independently, meet deadlines, and adapt under pressure.
• A flexible, reliable, and team-focused approach.
• Commitment to confidentiality, equal opportunities, and ongoing personal development.

Where you’ll be working:

Howitts Lane, Eynesbury, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 2JA. Join the team at St Neots Neurological Service providing care, therapeutic and rehabilitation pathways for those affected by a neurological or mental health condition for which challenging behaviour may be the leading impairment. St Neots Neurological Service is located in the centre of town and provides assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and complex care for both males and females suffering from a broad range of neurological conditions, which is provided by a highly experienced team based on site.

What You’ll Get:

• Annual base salary of £31,197 FTE.
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals.
• Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts.
• Life Assurance, for added peace of mind.
• Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
• 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be.
• Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time.
• Pension contribution, to help secure your future.
• Free and onsite parking.

About your next employer:

Elysium Healthcare has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.