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 to support divisional governance, incident learning and patient safety across specialties. You will coordinate meetings, collate papers, and help maintain risk registers and reporting systems.

You will train staff on governance processes, contribute to PSIRF responses, and promote a culture of safety, quality and continuous improvement within a leading orthopaedic NHS unit.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Facilitate bi-weekly governance meetings with Divisional Head of Nursing and Clinical Governance Lead; prepare agendas and collate papers.
• Support PSIRF learning responses, provide guidance to authors, and monitor actions.
• Create and present patient safety and risk incident reports for meetings and update actions.
• Present Governance aspects of training to staff.
• Provide training on the Trust's patient safety incident reporting system.
• Maintain the Trust's incident reporting system, risk register and complaints modules.

Skills

Data presentation

Willingness to learn

MS Office skills

Communication skills

Education

Degree level education or equivalent

Healthcare-related qualifications

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Go back The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Governance Facilitator

The closing date is 27 September 2026

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.

About us

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.

Job 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 Trusts 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 aspecialist 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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Royal Orthopaedic NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, The Woodlands

£32,073 to £39,043 a yearper annum, pro rata if part-time.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

303-8195807

Job locations

The Royal Orthopaedic NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, The Woodlands