South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Audit Team Leader - Thames Valley and Hampshire
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Are you passionate about quality, patient safety, and continuous improvement? Ready to take the next step into a leadership role where your expertise will directly shape service standards and outcomes? Do you hold clinical registration as a nurse or paramedic?
We’re looking for a dynamic and motivated Audit Team Leader to lead the delivery of our call and clinical audit programme across the Integrated Contact Centre (ICC). This is a fantastic opportunity to influence quality at scale, develop others, and contribute to system-wide improvements in patient care.
What We’re Looking For
We’re keen to hear from candidates who bring:
- Strong experience in clinical audit, governance, or quality assurance
- Knowledge of NHS Pathways and urgent care / ambulance operations
- Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop teams
- Excellent analytical skills with confidence interpreting complex data
- Passion for improving services and influencing positive change
- Professional registration (NMC/HCPC) is a must have and relevant qualifications or equivalent experience
About The Role
As Audit Team Leader, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving excellence in clinical and operational performance. You will:
- Lead the planning, delivery, and oversight of audit activity across ICC
- Turn audit insights into actionable learning and measurable improvement
- Manage and develop a team of clinical and non-clinical auditors
- Provide expert analysis and reporting to senior leadership and governance forums
- Ensure compliance with NHS Pathways, national standards, and Trust requirements
- Represent SCAS at regional and national forums, sharing best practice
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What You’ll Be Responsible For
- Leading a high-performing audit team and creating a culture of continuous improvement
- Delivering robust audit programmes that meet quality assurance standards
- Identifying trends, risks, and opportunities through data-driven insights
- Supporting ICC leaders with performance management and improvement plans
- Driving learning, development, and capability growth across the team
- Ensuring compliance with governance frameworks
Benefits We Offer
- Full training and a range of courses which you can book locally.
- Holiday entitlement of 27 days, rising to 29 days after 5 years’ service and 33 days after 10 years’ service, plus an additional 8 days bank holiday (pro rata for part time).
- Automatic enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
- Access to continual professional development within SCAS and the wider NHS.
- Occupational Health support and direct access to our Employee Assistance Programme as well as our own Health and Wellbeing Team.
- NHS Discounts in over 200 + stores saving money on holidays, days out, car insurance, restaurants, clothing and much more.
- Ability to join our staff networking groups (as a member, ally or just for interest).
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Corporate Induction
It’s really important for us to ensure you have the best onboarding experience which allows you to feel a sense of belonging from the start. To help with this, we will book your Corporate Induction as soon as we possibly can (depending on availability).
All new starters need to attend our *Corporate Induction in person, this is held over one and a half days from our educational centres based in: Newbury (Berkshire), Bicester (Oxfordshire) or Whiteley (Hampshire). More specific details will be sent to you once your start date has been confirmed.
Please note – depending on your role additional training may be required following on from your corporate induction.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Joanne McPartlane
- Job title: Head of 111
- Email address: Joanne.McPartlane@scas.nhs.uk
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