Clinical Quality and Safety Lead | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Nottingham is seeking an enthusiastic lead for Governance, Quality and Safety in Neonatal Services. In this role, you will implement and maintain safety systems, ensure compliance with high standards, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. This position offers the opportunity to impact patient outcomes positively and foster a culture of continuous improvement. We invite diverse applicants and welcome new ideas to enhance our team while providing world-class healthcare to our communities.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership in governance and quality management within healthcare.
• Knowledge of quality improvement principles and practices.
• Experience in multidisciplinary collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality and safety systems implementation across Neonatal Service.
• Ensure compliance with quality and patient safety standards.
• Identify training needs in quality improvement and governance.

Job description

Are you ready to make a significant impact on patient safety and care quality? Join us in our mission to deliver excellence in everything we do! Join us at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), where every day, our teams save lives and improve health outcomes. As the largest employer in Nottinghamshire we serve over 2.5 million residents and are renowned for our dedication to excellence in healthcare across a diverse range of services.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and innovative lead for Governance, Quality and Safety to drive continuous improvement across our Neonatal Services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and maintenance of quality and safety systems across the Neonatal Service.
• Provide expert leadership to ensure compliance with the highest standards of quality and patient safety.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to identify quality improvement and governance training needs.
• Support the investigation of events, learning response and subsequent implementation of recommendation and actions.
• Support the Trust implementation of PSIRF ensuring the principles of compassionate engagement and a just and restorative culture support learning and improvement.
• Drive transformational work to support continuous assessment, monitoring and improvement in healthcare delivery, providing support and oversight for the directorate team members.
• Contribute to the directorate management team by reporting on regulatory compliance, assurance, learning and quality improvement initiatives.
• Close working and liaison with multidisciplinary professionals to ensure triangulation of information and intelligence across the service, division and Trust. This is fundamental to support our teams to deliver the best service in a busy, multi-site Neonatal Service providing care to families living in a broad and varied social demographic.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.

This advert closes on Monday 29 Dec 2025.