Band 8a Divisional Governance Lead

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking an experienced governance leader to join their Children and Families Division. This role involves leading the governance team to ensure high-quality care processes, managing clinical governance budgets, and overseeing risk management and complaint systems. Ideal candidates will hold a post-graduate qualification and have significant experience in a Band 7 clinical governance role. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape services that enhance care for children and families.

Qualifications

• Experience of working at Band 7 in a clinical governance team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the governance programme across the Children and Families Division.
• Plan, support, facilitate and monitor governance projects.
• Manage complaint systems in line with NHS and Trust legislation.

Skills

Clinical governance

Risk management

Complaint management

Leadership

Education

Post-graduate qualification or equivalent experience

Job description

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Children and Families Division to lead the governance team and ensure high quality care and processes are in place within the services.

Main duties of the job

• Governance and Assurance: Lead and manage the governance programme and framework across the Children and Families Division.
• Risk Management: Responsible for the continuing development of risk management within Children and Families Division according to its needs and the Trust Risk Management Strategy.
• Incident Reporting Coordinator: Postholder is the Children and Families Division Incident Reporting Coordinator.
• Safeguarding Children Liaison: Lead for managing the internal systems and processes to review, assess and monitor child death and safeguarding cases.
• Complaint Management: Manage the Children and Families Division complaint systems in line with NHS and Trust legislation, policies and procedures.
• Information Governance, Subject Access and Freedom of Information Requests: Manage the division's compliance with Information Governance legislation and Trust Policies.

About us

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

Job responsibilities

• Lead and manage the extensive clinical governance, wider governance and assurance programme across Children and Families Division, covering risk management, health & safety, patient safety, information governance, and Care Quality Commission Standards of Quality and Safety.
• Plan, support, facilitate and monitor progress of governance projects and design, develop and deliver associated in‑house training.
• Lead on developing and maintaining risk assessments, risk register and incident reporting systems.
• Manage complaint systems in line with NHS and Trust legislation, policies and procedures.
• Line manage Clinical Governance Manager, Clinical Governance Facilitator, Clinical Governance Coordinator and ad hoc temporary support staff and apprenticeships.
• Budget management for the clinical governance budget (~£200,000).

Person Specification

Essential

• Post‑graduate qualification or equivalent experience.
• Experience of working at Band 7 in a clinical governance team.

Experience

• Experience of working at Band 7 in a clinical governance team.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependents (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

Employer details

Employer name: Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Address: Moseley Hall Hospital, Birmingham, B18 8JL