Clinical Governance Facilitator

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Governance Facilitator (NHS AfC: Band 5) in Birmingham. You will support bi-weekly governance meetings, lead PSIRF learning tasks, and prepare risk and safety reports for committees.

You will train staff on the incident reporting system, maintain risk registers, and help disseminate learning from incidents across the trust. A degree-level education is expected, with NHS governance experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
• Experience in governance/compliance-based role.
• Experience in NHS governance role.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate divisional governance meetings with the Divisional Head of Nursing and Clinical Governance Lead.
• Support and advise on PSIRF learning responses; proofreading and monitoring actions.
• Create and present patient safety and risk incident reports for meetings and boards; update actions.
• Present governance aspects of training.
• Provide training to staff on the patient safety incident reporting system.
• Maintain the Trust’s patient safety incident reporting system, risk register module and complaints module.
• Assist with dissemination of learning from patient safety incidents and follow up actions.

Skills

Data presentation

MS Office

Willingness to learn

Education

Degree level or equivalent

NHS/Healthcare qualifications

Tools

Proficient in MS Office

Job description

Employer The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Royal Orthopaedic NHS Foundation Trust Town Birmingham Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum, pro rata if part-time. Salary period Yearly Closing 27/09/2026 23:59 Interview date 15/10/2026

Clinical Governance Facilitator

NHS AfC: Band 5

Job overview

What is Governance - Governance at theRoyal Orthopaedic HospitalNHS Foundation Trust(ROH)refers to thesystems, structures andprocesses used toensurethat the organisationiswell led, accountable, financially sustainable, and provides safe, effective, and high-quality patient care.

Clinical governanceis particularly importantwithin ROH because itensures that clinicalservices are safe, evidence-based, andcontinually improving.This includes monitoringincidents, complaints,patient experience, clinicaloutcomes, and compliancewith professional andregulatory standards.

Insummary, ROH's governanceframework aims toensure thatdecisions are madeappropriately, risks areidentified and managed, resources are usedeffectively, and patientsreceive safe andhigh-quality orthopaediccare.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be required to complete a 30-minute written governance test before your interview.

Main duties of the job

· Responsible for working with Divisional Head of Nursing and Clinical Governance Lead to facilitate the bi-weekly divisional governance meetings. This includes organising and attending a pre-meet in order to agree incidents for escalation and agree agenda, collating and disseminating papers and reports for the meeting; and presenting and facilitating the patient safety incident and risk aspect of the agenda.

· Responsible for facilitating the completion of PSIRF learning responses, including support and advice to learning response authors, proofreading responses, identification and monitoring of actions, and the facilitation and writing up of SWARMS.

· Responsible for creating and presenting patient safety and risk register incident reports for a wide variety of specialty meetings, boards and committees, and completion of relevant actions and updates following.

· Responsible for presentation of Governance aspects of training.

· Responsible for provision of training to all staff on the use of the Trust’s patient safety incident reporting system.

· Responsible for day-to-day maintenance of the Trust’s patient safety incident reporting system, risk register module and Complaints module.

· Assist with the dissemination of learning from patient safety incidents, including follow up of actions.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest specialist orthopaedic units in Europe. We offer planned orthopaedic surgery to people locally, nationally and internationally.

Our Trust is a very special hospital; big enough to deliver world class services and small enough to offer exceptional patient and staff experience. We offer a working experience unique in the West Midlands and we're always on the lookout for passionate people to join our award-winning team.

The ROH is an equal opportunities employer. We employ people of difference and are committed to growing an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated, and people feel able to bring their whole and authentic self to work.

We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a range of inclusive, family friendly and flexible working arrangements and policies, to support our people in the workplace. Flexible working requests will be considered.

The Trust is committed to the Disability Confident Interview Scheme and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy and consider them on their abilities.

If you have a disability and need any support with your application or require any reasonable adjustments to be implemented please do get in touch with the Recruiting Manager for this position so that the team can support you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Why choose The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital:

Meaningful impact on patient safety and quality:Clinical Governance is central to monitoring clinical risk, patient safety, quality of care and patient experience at ROH. The Trust’s governance structures provide oversight of clinical risks and the effectiveness of actions taken to mitigate them.

Opportunity to learn from real clinical data: Governance work brings together areas such as, incidents, complaints, risk management, and quality improvement.

A specialist orthopaedicenvironment:ROH is a specialist orthopaediccentre, so applicants can gainexperience in governancewithin a highlyfocused clinical setting.

Exposure to multidisciplinaryworking: Governance requires collaboration between clinicians, nurses, managers, patients, and other professional groups. Working in this environment can help to develop communication, organisation, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Person specification

Education

• Educated to degree level/ or equivalent experience.
• NHS/healthcare/clinical related qualifications other relevant qualifications

Experience

• Experience of working in a governance and/or compliance-based role.
• Experience of working in NHS governance role

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to present complex data in a variety of ways
• Willingness to undertake training and develop new skills

Personal Qualities

• Able to work effectively in an environment with unpredictable work pressures.
• Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with Trust core values.

IT

• Advanced keyboard skills, including proficient use of a range of MSOffice products.
• Willingness to undertake training and develop new skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.