Assistant Clinical Governance Manager

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester is seeking an experienced registered healthcare professional to join the Divisional Clinical Governance Team as Assistant Clinical Governance Manager to support patient safety and experience.

You will work with ward managers, matrons and service leads to promote an open, transparent culture, support incident investigations, complaints handling, clinical audits, and the development of policies to deliver safe, high‑quality care across the division.

Responsibilities

• Support the Clinical Governance Manager to manage and co-ordinate all aspects of patient safety, risk management and governance within the CSSS division.
• Respond to incidents, complaints, and audits and contribute to policy development to support safe, high-quality care.
• Work with ward managers, matrons and Service Leads to promote learning responses to incidents and ensure governance standards are delivered.

Job description

Are you passionate about Patient Safety and Experience and wish to support staff to improve care? We are looking for an experienced registered healthcare professional to join the Divisional Clinical Governance Team.

The post holder will have a patient centred approach and will work in such a way as to help promote an open and transparent culture that actively improves clinical safety and quality and seek to make improvements to enhance the patient experience and safety.

You will support the clinical governance manager to manage and co-ordinate all aspects of patient safety, risk management and governance within the CSSS division, ensuring the effective application of the Trusts’ Risk Management Strategy. You will be required to work closely with the ward managers, Matrons and Service Leads, supporting learning responses to incident investigation, complaints management, clinical audit and the development of policies and procedures to support safe, high-quality care.

This is a fast-paced role, where priorities can change at very short notice, so we’re looking for someone who can work well under pressure, manage competing priorities and work to deadlines.

The Assistant Clinical Governance Manager will work collaboratively across the Trust to support the Clinical Governance Manager to develop the Clinical Governance plans; to ensure that national, trust wide and divisional standards are delivered and monitored and that patient, staff and visitor safety is considered and improved where possible and that risks which may damage the reputation or have a financial impact on the Trust are mitigated to their lowest level.

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lyn Bushell Job title: Clinical Governance Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07500940703