Clinical Governance Partner

NHS; England; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in the UK is seeking an experienced professional to lead on quality governance and patient safety. This home-based role involves overseeing quality improvement and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in mental health services, strong leadership skills, and is knowledgeable about compliance frameworks. With a commitment to patient safety, this position will contribute significantly to the enhancement of care quality across services.

Benefits

30 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Enhanced pension

Wagestream for instant pay access

Wellbeing programme including EAP

Enhanced life assurance scheme

Qualifications

• Extensive post-registration clinical experience with complex mental health needs.
• Proven track record in clinical governance, patient safety, or quality improvement.
• Strong knowledge of compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead on quality, safety, and governance across services.
• Develop risk profiles and identify solutions for staff safety.
• Ensure compliance with CQC standards.

Skills

Experience in delivering or supporting Mental Health Services

Clinical governance

Patient safety

Quality improvement

Excellent communication skills

Education

Degree level education or equivalent clinical qualification

Tools

MS Office

CRM systems

Job description

We are delighted to offer an opportunity for an experienced and motivated professional to join our Quality Governance & Risk Directorate. This is a home-based role with some travel to services across the UK.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with our Clinical Director and service managers, you will lead on quality, safety, and governance, ensuring our services deliver safe, effective, and high-quality care.

This role combines strategic oversight with targeted operational support, with a focus on:

• Focusing on patient safety
• Safeguarding
• Infection prevention
• Quality improvement
• Compliance with regulatory standards.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to meaningful improvements in patient care, working collaboratively to strengthen our culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.

About us

We are proud to have been recognised and certified as a Great Place to Work, which speaks volumes on how much we value our staff members. In return for the hard work and dedication from our teams, we offer the following benefits:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 32 days at 5 years service) and the option to purchase or sell day
• Enhanced pension
• Wagestream-ability torelease earnings, giving youinstant access to your pay
• Smartclinic Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistant Programme, GP and priority physiotherapy access and shopping discounts with the opportunity to sign up for a Blue Light Card
• Enhanced life assurance scheme, payment being three times your annual salary
• Plus, many more great benefits on offer

Here at Everyturn Mental Health we champion equality, diversity and inclusion within the organisation by ensuring our opportunities are open to all and our approach is inclusive. We positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.

We welcome you to be yourself at work and have a range of Colleague Networks for members and allies of the LGBTQI+; Black, Asian and minority ethnic; menopause and neurodivergent communities.

In order to streamline our recruitment process, once we have received a sufficient number of applications, we reserve the right to expire vacancies.

Job responsibilities

Act as the Clinical Governance and Patient Safety lead for designated service areas.

Develop and maintain risk profiles, identifying key risks and solutions to improve safety for staff and service users.

Provide expert advice on compliance with CQC and other statutory or national standards.

Contribute to organisational strategy by advising executives and service managers on governance, quality improvement, and patient experience.

Lead and support investigations into incidents, complaints, and other safety-related events.

Oversee safeguarding, infection prevention and control, and clinical risk processes.

Develop and monitor outcome measures, KPIs, and audit programmes to ensure continuous improvement.

Coordinate and contribute to Quality Assurance visits, audits, and Journey to Outstanding initiatives.

Ensure services align with national guidelines, best practices, and quality standards.

Lead or support quality improvement and research projects across the organisation.

Provide training, coaching, and mentoring to managers and staff on safe practice, risk management, and governance processes.

Promote a culture of learning by sharing insights from incidents, audits, and feedback.

Facilitate engagement with service users and stakeholders to improve care delivery and outcomes.

Adhere to information governance, data protection, and confidentiality requirements.

Ensure safe record-keeping and information quality in line with national standards.

Contribute to staff wellbeing initiatives and promote safe working practices.

Champion equity, diversity, and inclusion within all governance and service delivery activities.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience / Knowledge in delivering or supporting Mental Health Services.
• Extensive post-registration clinical experience, including working with people with complex mental health needs.
• Proven track record in clinical governance, patient safety, or quality improvement.
• Experience of leading investigations into incidents and complaint.
• Demonstrated success in achieving service outcomes and performance targets.
• Research and audit experience.
• Experience in Residential Nursing Services or Community support Services.
• Previous experience in a governance or quality leadership role.

Knowledge

• Experience / Knowledge in delivering or supporting Mental Health Services.
• Strong knowledge of CQC (or equivalent regulatory body) standards and compliance frameworks.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong coaching/mentoring and training ability.
• Skilled in risk assessment, investigation, and problem-solving.
• Confident in presenting findings and reports at senior levels.
• Competent IT user (MS Office, CRM systems).

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent clinical qualification).
• Evidence of continued professional development.

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.