Quality and Risk Advisor
6 hours ago
Carlisle
Job summaryAre you passionate about patient safety, quality improvement and creating a culture of continuous learning? We're looking for an experienced Quality & Risk Advisor to play a pivotal role in strengthening our quality, governance and risk management frameworks.Working closely with senior leaders and supporting our Regional Heads of Q&R, you'll help drive our Quality & Risk programme, providing oversight and daily management of incidents, complaints, risk management and policy development. You'll be at the heart of ensuring our services remain safe, compliant and continuously improving, while supporting adherence to regulatory and accreditation standards, including CQC requirements and BS 70000 accreditation where applicable.This is a fantastic opportunity to influence organisational quality and safety performance, lead on incident and risk management processes, and maximise the effectiveness of our Datix systems. If you thrive in a role where you can make a measurable difference, champion best practice and help shape the future of healthcare quality, we'd love to hear from you.Please note that this is a field-based role requiring attendance at our services.We will be interviewing throughout the duration of this advert. Therefore if you are interested in this role an early application is advised as we may close the advert prior to the advertised date. If you would like a full copy of the job description, please contact us via vacancies@alliance.co.ukMain duties of the jobTo support and guide the management of Risk across the business, including Risk Assessment, Risk Registers, Incident Reporting, Investigations and lessons learnedTo support the wider business in managing Risk & Incident systems administration (Datix) to ensure the effective management of risk & incidents, promoting quality and patient safetyTo support to analysis of themes around risks and incidents to aid with reporting and highlighting areas for improvementTo support education and training relating to Quality and Risk issues that impact on the businessTo support the management and investigation of Level One complaints in support of escalation/closure and lessons learnedTo support the Heads of Quality & Risk in the delivery of Strategy in support of organisational requirements to support a safe service to allTo manage the administrative side of Policy & procedures to ensure compliance across the businessTo develop and review policy and procedures as appropriate to designated area of responsibility, making sure that national guidance is reflected and cascaded to all Alliance Medical staffTo be a representative at relevant designated Alliance Medical Governance Committee meetingsTo attend internal Regional, Quality & Risk, Corporate and external stakeholder / site meetings as appropriate, promoting Alliance MedicalAbout usAlliance Medical are Europe's leading independent provider of imaging services.We combine service excellence and innovative imaging technologies to improve patient care and support NHS and independent organisations with their ongoing imaging requirements. Our approach has delivered consistent company growth for more than 30 years.We live by our company values to ensure the highest level of patient care: DetailsDate posted10 July 2026Pay schemeOtherSalary Depending on experience ContractPermanentWorking pattern Full-time Reference numberJobRef-1489Job locationsThe Woods Opus Business Park Haywood RoadWarwickCV34 5AHUnited KingdomJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesAbout the role Are you passionate about patient safety, quality improvement and creating a culture of continuous learning? We're looking for an experienced and motivated Quality & Risk Advisor to play a pivotal role in strengthening our quality, governance and risk management frameworks.Working closely with senior leaders and supporting our Regional Heads of Q&R, you'll help drive our Quality & Risk programme, providing oversight and daily management of incidents, complaints, risk management and policy development. You'll be at the heart of ensuring our services remain safe, compliant and continuously improving, while supporting adherence to regulatory and accreditation standards, including CQC requirements and BS 70000 accreditation where applicable.This is a fantastic opportunity to influence organisational quality and safety performance, lead on incident and risk management processes, and maximise the effectiveness of our Datix systems. If you thrive in a role where you can make a measurable difference, champion best practice and help shape the future of healthcare quality, we'd love to hear from you.Please note that this is a fieldbased role requiring attendance at our services.We will be interviewing throughout the duration of this advert. Therefore if you are interested in this role an early application is advised as we may close the advert prior to the advertised date. If you would like a full copy of the job description, please contact the recruitment team via vacancies@alliance.co.uk Skills and experience Essential: Clinical Practitioner or relevant experience in clinical setting - with suitable experience to deliver requirementsKnowledge and Understanding of Quality and Risk standard requirements as applied to a healthcare organisationKnowledge of Regulatory Requirements as applied to the various modalities IRMER, CQC, QSI, BS70000 etcEvidence of innovation in clinical practiceCompetent professional, comfortable operating across multiple sites across a large geographical areaEvidence of on-going professional developmentEvidence of ability to self-direct/self motivate, make decisions and generate ideasWell-developed IT skillsStrong communication and presentation skillsUK driving license extensive travel may be expected with this roleDesirable:Patient Safety CoursePSIRF incident investigation courseIOSH Managing safely CourseDatix Certified Professional in Datix Cloud IQ & Datix Web training - or willingness to undertake Knowledge and experience of External Assessment/InspectionsEvidence of completing and developing clinical audit programmesInvolvement in regulatory assessment/inspectionsExperience of carrying out research/publication Major Accounabilities Major accountabilities will include: To support and guide the management of Risk across the business, including Risk Assessment, Risk Registers, Incident Reporting, Investigations and lessons learnedTo support the wider business in managing Risk & Incident systems administration (Datix) to ensure the effective management of risk & incidents, promoting quality and patient safetyTo support to analysis of themes around risks and incidents to aid with reporting and highlighting areas for improvementTo support education and training relating to Quality and Risk issues that impact on the businessTo support the management and investigation of Level One complaints in support of escalation/closure and lessons learnedTo support the Heads of Quality & Risk in the delivery of Strategy in support of organisational requirements to support a safe service to allTo manage the administrative side of Policy & procedures to ensure compliance across the businessTo develop and review policy and procedures as appropriate to designated area of responsibility, making sure that national guidance is reflected and cascaded to all Alliance Medical staffTo be a representative at relevant designated Alliance Medical Governance Committee meetingsTo attend internal Regional, Quality & Risk, Corporate and external stakeholder / site meetings as appropriate, promoting Alliance Medical Job description Job responsibilitiesAbout the role Are you passionate about patient safety, quality improvement and creating a culture of continuous learning? We're looking for an experienced and motivated Quality & Risk Advisor to play a pivotal role in strengthening our quality, governance and risk management frameworks.Working closely with senior leaders and supporting our Regional Heads of Q&R, you'll help drive our Quality & Risk programme, providing oversight and daily management of incidents, complaints, risk management and policy development. You'll be at the heart of ensuring our services remain safe, compliant and continuously improving, while supporting adherence to regulatory and accreditation standards, including CQC requirements and BS 70000 accreditation where applicable.This is a fantastic opportunity to influence organisational quality and safety performance, lead on incident and risk management processes, and maximise the effectiveness of our Datix systems. If you thrive in a role where you can make a measurable difference, champion best practice and help shape the future of healthcare quality, we'd love to hear from you.Please note that this is a fieldbased role requiring attendance at our services.We will be interviewing throughout the duration of this advert. Therefore if you are interested in this role an early application is advised as we may close the advert prior to the advertised date. If you would like a full copy of the job description, please contact the recruitment team via vacancies@alliance.co.uk Skills and experience Essential: Clinical Practitioner or relevant experience in clinical setting - with suitable experience to deliver requirementsKnowledge and Understanding of Quality and Risk standard requirements as applied to a healthcare organisationKnowledge of Regulatory Requirements as applied to the various modalities IRMER, CQC, QSI, BS70000 etcEvidence of innovation in clinical practiceCompetent professional, comfortable operating across multiple sites across a large geographical areaEvidence of on-going professional developmentEvidence of ability to self-direct/self motivate, make decisions and generate ideasWell-developed IT skillsStrong communication and presentation skillsUK driving license extensive travel may be expected with this roleDesirable:Patient Safety CoursePSIRF incident investigation courseIOSH Managing safely CourseDatix Certified Professional in Datix Cloud IQ & Datix Web training - or willingness to undertake Knowledge and experience of External Assessment/InspectionsEvidence of completing and developing clinical audit programmesInvolvement in regulatory assessment/inspectionsExperience of carrying out research/publication Major Accounabilities Major accountabilities will include: To support and guide the management of Risk across the business, including Risk Assessment, Risk Registers, Incident Reporting, Investigations and lessons learnedTo support the wider business in managing Risk & Incident systems administration (Datix) to ensure the effective management of risk & incidents, promoting quality and patient safetyTo support to analysis of themes around risks and incidents to aid with reporting and highlighting areas for improvementTo support education and training relating to Quality and Risk issues that impact on the businessTo support the management and investigation of Level One complaints in support of escalation/closure and lessons learnedTo support the Heads of Quality & Risk in the delivery of Strategy in support of organisational requirements to support a safe service to allTo manage the administrative side of Policy & procedures to ensure compliance across the businessTo develop and review policy and procedures as appropriate to designated area of responsibility, making sure that national guidance is reflected and cascaded to all Alliance Medical staffTo be a representative at relevant designated Alliance Medical Governance Committee meetingsTo attend internal Regional, Quality & Risk, Corporate and external stakeholder / site meetings as appropriate, promoting Alliance MedicalPerson Specification Experience Essential currently a Clinical Practitionercompleted the PSIRF incident investigation course Person Specification Experience Essential currently a Clinical Practitionercompleted the PSIRF incident investigation courseDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.Employer detailsEmployer nameAlliance Medical LtdAddressThe Woods Opus Business Park Haywood RoadWarwickCV34 5AHUnited KingdomEmployer's websiteEmployer detailsEmployer nameAlliance Medical LtdAddressThe Woods Opus Business Park Haywood RoadWarwickCV34 5AHUnited KingdomEmployer's website