role and responsibilities
Quality Assurance Lead, Caldicott Guardian and CQC Nominated Lead.
- Central resources task and finish group (currently working on standard anxiety resources for the organisation), developing and creating a repository of tools and resources that are common to all Compass services to improve consistency and maintain quality standards across services.
- Participation steering group – currently setting up an ESQ working group to investigate the existing processes for experience service user questionnaires, identify areas for improvement, and provide recommendations to streamline and enhance these processes
- Working towards the development and implementation of a Freedom to Speak up Guardian Role within the organisation
- Leading on the continued roll out of restorative supervision in the organisation, with additional restorative supervision sessions starting for team leaders in September/October. I am also a restorative supervisor for Compass Bloom.
- Aim to continue to build quality assurance framework components within the organisation over the next year.
experience
I am a Registered Childrens Nurse and Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) with 25 years’ experience of working in NHS and clinical commissioning settings, as well as more recently working for UKHSA in health protection and Suffolk local authority as operations manager for health protection in Suffolk.
more info
I live in Liverpool but am originally from Scarborough in North Yorkshire, and lived in London for 10 years nursing. I’m married to Brian and we have three boys aged 20, 18 and 15 years old and a Patterdale Terrier called Floyd. I enjoy meeting up with friends and family, eating out, concerts, theatre and cinema. I play in a netball league, as well as being an avid fan of Pilates and Yoga.