Clinical Governance Lead

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London seeks an Occupational Therapist to support clinical governance and patient safety initiatives. The role involves collaboration across services, leading investigations, and ensuring compliance with best practices. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in clinical governance and a formal qualification in a related field.

Qualifications

• Significant professional knowledge and experience of clinical governance processes.
• Experience in clinical governance and patient safety.
• Ability to produce high-quality, concise reports.

Responsibilities

• Act as a support point for all clinical governance issues.
• Encourage safe, effective clinical practice.
• Analyze clinical governance data to produce reports.

Skills

Clinical Governance

Patient Safety

Collaborative Working

Report Writing

Education

Formal qualification in a related field

Human Factors training

Tools

Excel

Job description

The Occupational Therapist will provide expert advice and support to Borough and Clinical Directors, Service Managers, and Heads of Service on patient safety, clinical effectiveness, and quality of care delivery. The role emphasizes ensuring incidents and patient feedback are reported, reviewed, and shared for learning in accordance with best practices.

The post supports a dynamic portfolio of clinical governance, patient safety, and patient feedback services to deliver the West London NHS Trust's Quality and Patient Safety Strategy, adhering to related policies and statutory requirements.

Working within the larger Clinical Governance Team, the post holder will offer expert patient safety and patient experience support to Hounslow Borough mental health services. The role involves cross-borough collaboration and leading key Trust-wide clinical governance projects as directed by line management.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is expected to:

1. Act as a highly visible support point for all clinical governance issues related to the supported service line(s).
2. Encourage and support safe, effective clinical practice through close collaboration with clinical teams and facilitate sharing of best practices.
3. Support clinical service lines with timely reporting and investigation of incidents and complaints, following Trust policies.
4. Participate as an incident review or complaint investigation panel member as required.
5. Assist borough/clinical service lines in completing PSII reviews within agreed timeframes and escalate delays.
6. Work with service lines to ensure outcomes of PSII reviews promote shared learning.
7. Facilitate After Action Reviews, ensuring they are completed timely and escalate if not.
8. Analyze clinical governance data to produce reports demonstrating learning and risk reduction.

(For further details, please refer to the Job Description.)

About us

West London NHS Trust is a diverse healthcare provider offering mental health, physical healthcare, and community services. It manages Broadmoor Hospital, a high secure hospital, and provides services across multiple London boroughs. The Trust employs 4,500 staff, with a significant proportion from BME backgrounds, and has a turnover of £426m for 2023-24. It is rated 'Good' overall by the CQC, with forensic services rated 'Outstanding'.

The Trust actively participates in the North West London Integrated Care System and leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.

Job responsibilities

The Candidate Pack outlines key tasks and the person specification details qualifications, skills, and experience required. The person specification below is a summary for application assessment purposes.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Significant professional knowledge and experience of clinical governance processes.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Formal qualification in a related field, including Human Factors training.

Experience

• Experience in clinical governance and patient safety.
• Experience reviewing and leading Serious Incident panels and complaint investigations.
• Experience implementing change in clinical practice.
• Understanding of the health and social care landscape and external partnerships.

Knowledge

• Ability to produce high-quality, concise reports within tight deadlines.
• Collaborative working skills across disciplines.
• Understanding of statutory and mandatory responsibilities related to clinical governance, risk, and complaints.
• Knowledge of quality improvement principles and processes.
• Ability to collate and summarize information from various sources.
• Ability to deliver training effectively.
• Proficiency in database use, such as incident reporting systems and Excel.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This role requires a DBS check due to statutory requirements.

Associate Director of Clinical Governance

£51,883 to £58,544 per annum, inclusive.