MSE Director of Quality / EPUT Director of Safety | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

AsMSE’sDirector of Quality and Clinical Governance you will be responsible for ensuring that appropriate governance arrangements exist to safeguard the quality of the systems & processes that contribute to the care of patients, can achieve & report on the Trust’s performance against & oversight of, the Care Quality Commission standards and that a robust governance structure is in place for Ward to Board governance to allow detection, response & escalation of concerns. Acting as Executive Lead for Patient Engagement & Co-production, ensuring that patients, families, carers and communities are meaningfully involved in the design, delivery, monitoring and improvement of care.

AsEPUT’sDirector of Safety & Patient Safety Specialistyou will be responsible for leading patient safety across one of the largest mental health and community healthcare trusts in the region, shaping and delivering the Trust's strategic approach to safety and learning. You will be the lead patient safety expert in EPUT, providing dynamic senior leadership, visibility and expert support to the patient safety work across our organisation and leading the development of a patient safety culture and safety systems engaging directly with our Executive Team.

A critical factor toBOTHthese roles is the relationship between yourself and our Chief Nurse/Executive Nurse, executives accountable to the Board of Directors for quality of care including, patient safety, clinical effectiveness & patient experience.

MSE Role -Working in partnership with all partners, you will be responsible for;

• ensuring clinical quality improvements are embedded and sustained in practice with an effective clinical quality assurance framework providing internal/external assurance
• leading on the quality interface with external agencies/regulators such as the Trust’s Commissioners
• providing assurance that clinical quality is embedded at the local level by working in collaboration with hospital leadership and management teams
• ensuring systems are in place to maximise opportunities for learning with patients and families and ensuring that a culture of learning from experience is supported
• providing expertise and leadership in the development of the Trusts clinical service and quality strategy

EPUT Role -As senior lead for patient safety, you will ;

• act as our Trust's senior patient safety expert, providing visible leadership and influencing safety improvements at Board & Executive level
• drive meaningful engagement with patients, carers, staff and Patient Safety Partners to ensure lived experience informs service improvement and safety priorities
• provide strategic oversight of incidents, risks, complaints, PALS and patient experience to ensure lessons are identified, shared and translated into tangible improvements
• lead and develop high-performing patient safety, complaints and patient experience functions, ensuring the delivery of national standards and best practice

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

We invite you to apply for both/either of these Director roles that are to play an integral part of both MSE and EPUT Trust futures.

Please review the attached JD's for both the MSE and EPUT Roles ensuring you include any preference you may have in your application but this will be fully explored in any Interview.

The Interview is to be face to face on the 5th October at Basildon Hospital and representatives of both MSE and EPUT will be present.

This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Sep 2026