Manager Quality and Care Development

We offer you
A versatile management position with social impact within one of the largest mental healthcare (GGZ) organizations in the Netherlands. You will play a key role in improving the quality and safety of care and work together with passionate professionals who are dedicated daily to the mental health of our clients.
Furthermore:

• Employment conditions according to the CAO GGZ, scale 70 (min. € 5,988.- and max € 8,146,- gross based on 36 hours);
• This is a vacancy for 24 hours per week for an initial duration of six months;
• An end-of-year bonus of 8.33% and 8.33% holiday allowance;
• You build up a good pension at Pensioenfonds Zorg & Welzijn.

Additionally, a number of attractive employment conditions from Arkin:

• For commuting and business travel, you receive a 2nd class mobility card, also usable for OV-fiets, or a mileage allowance;
• Discount on various insurances;
• A work-from-home arrangement with reimbursement for workplace setup and reimbursement for work-from-home days;
• For your well-being, access to the care platform Lifecheck, and access to Nrgize to take part in activities such as bootcamp, yoga and padel.

What do you bring?
You are an experienced manager who knows how to connect organizations, processes, and people. You have an eye for quality of care, understand administrative relationships, and are able to translate complex issues into clear choices and concrete results.
Additionally, you have:

Are you a connecting and steady manager who knows how to take the quality of care to a higher level? Do you have experience in a complex administrative environment and do you get energy from coaching professionals, advising directors, and realizing improvements that truly matter to clients? Then this temporary position at Arkin is for you.

Due to the temporary absence of the current manager, we are looking for an experienced manager to lead the Care Development & Quality department for six months. You will ensure continuity, bring focus and progress to important quality files, and support the team during a period in which stability and direction are of great importance.

What will you do?
As Manager, you will lead the central staff department Care Development & Quality (Z&K) at Arkin. Together with a team of approximately twelve quality advisors, you will contribute to the further development, implementation, and safeguarding of the quality and safety of care within our 11 specialisms.

You will operate at the intersection of the board, management, healthcare professionals, and committees. You will ensure focus, connection, and progress in quality issues and act as an important sparring partner for the Board of Directors, management, and employees of the department.

In this position, you combine strategic thinking with practical execution. You maintain an overview of diverse files, bring structure to processes, and know how to translate complex issues into clear choices, priorities, and actions.
Your activities include, among others:

• Coaching and leading the employees of Care Development & Quality;
• Supporting, guiding, and developing quality advisors in their roles;
• Maintaining periodic coordination with, among others, quality advisors, the complaints officer, and support staff;
• Advising management and the Board of Directors on quality, safety, and care development;
• Monitoring the progress of annual plans, quality programs, and organization-wide improvement trajectories;
• Chairing department meetings and participating in administrative meetings, steering groups, and core teams;
• Further developing and discussing management and quality information, including the quality monitor;
• Supporting quality committees and overseeing the realization of their annual plans and objectives;
• Ensuring clear decision-making, recording, and follow-up of agreements;
• Contributing to the budget, annual plans, and strategic developments within Arkin.