Compliance Nurse

Connected Health; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Connected Health in Belfast is seeking a Part-time Nurse to provide governance and clinical oversight, ensuring high standards of competence, compliance, and care quality in line with RQIA and HSCT requirements. The role focuses on quality governance, clinical compliance, care planning, and continuous service improvement, with pro rata salary £42k–£48k depending on experience.

This post emphasizes staff training, policy development, audits, patient safety initiatives, and day-to-day clinical

Qualifications

• Active registration on the NMC Register - General Nurse Division (RGN).
• Minimum of 3 years' post-registration experience, including acute or community care settings.
• Current, full clean driving licence.
• Strong teamwork ability and ability to work independently.
• Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Maintain governance and clinical oversight to ensure high competence and compliance levels.
• Identify service improvements, develop policies, audits, and patient safety initiatives.
• Ensure clinical compliance with RQIA Regulations and HSCT requirements.
• Provide day-to-day clinical support to operations teams and escalate patterns requiring investigation.
• Establish and maintain quality improvement tracking and information relevant to patient care.

Skills

NMC Registered Nurse

Teamwork

Independent Working

Microsoft Office

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Connected Health are seeking a Nurse to provide complete clinical oversight, ensuring high standards of competence, compliance, and care quality. The post-holder will lead on governance, compliance and staff training - supporting operations teams to deliver safe, person-centred care in line with RQIA standards and HSCT requirements.

This will be a Part time role

Salary: £42k to £48K, depending on experience (pro rata for part time hours)

Main Duties

Quality Governance, Clinical Compliance & Training

Maintain complete oversight to ensure high competence and compliance levels, reporting any areas of concern

Anticipate and identify service improvements required and address deficiencies in quality - including service development needs, education development, and assistance in developing policies, audit processes, and patient safety initiatives.

Ensure clinical compliance in line with current RQIA Regulations and HSCT commissioner requirements.

Provide clinical input to assist in RQIA inspection preparation

Assist the operations team with clinical compliance reviews in line with priorities.

Maintain oversight of all governance and clinical issues within the area, providing weekly updates

Identify clinical governance patterns or trends requiring escalation or investigation and assist with same.

Assist the compliance team with internal audits of client and staff files, with particular focus on the clinical aspects of assessments and care.

Provide day-to-day clinical support to operations teams across your area as part of the wider governance team.

Establish and maintain quality improvement tracking and other information relevant to patient care.

Contribute to continuous quality improvement across services.

Clinical Support & Care Planning

Provide clinical support and assist with complex patient care reviews and assessments.

Carry out regular clinical risk assessments to identify and mitigate risk

Lead the quality audit of individual care plans - ensuring each is person-centred, reflects current assessed need, and meets RQIA and HSCT standards.

Support on complex clinical and care needs, referring to Safeguarding where appropriate.

Training & Staff Development

Deliver staff training for induction, epilepsy awareness, and specialist modules (e.g. medication administration, catheter care, wound care, PEG feeding).

Support service development training initiatives, including in areas such as intellectual disabilities and dementia awareness.

Ensure appropriate training is in place for all care staff and advocate for identified training needs.

Identify training gaps through compliance audits and incident trends, and propose improvements to enhance care quality.

Work with the People & Training team to ensure clinical training content meets NI regulatory requirements

Note: This list of duties is not exhaustive. The post-holder will be expected to be flexible and adaptable to change as the needs of the service evolve.

Essential Criteria

• Active registration on the NMC Register - General Nurse Division (RGN)
• Minimum of 3 years' post-registration experience, including experience in an acute or community care setting
• Current, full clean driving licence
• Strong teamwork ability alongside a high degree of self-motivation to work independently
• Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Office

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Previous experience working within home care or domiciliary care
• Certification in wound care
• Certification in epilepsy awareness
• Certification in dementia awareness
• Level 6 Train the Trainer qualification
• Level 6 Patient Moving and Handling Trainer qualification
• Experience of audit report writing and clinical documentation

About Us

At Connected Health, we don't just offer a job - we offer careers that are at the forefront of transforming the way homecare is delivered across Ireland. We recognise that the individuals we employ are pivotal to driving this transformation within the sector. That's why, at Connected Health, our mission is unwavering: to continually attract, recruit, and develop the finest homecare team.

Connected Health is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, good relations, respect for diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the delivery of its services to clients. It is also committed to ensuring that the talents and resources of all its employees are utilised to the full. Connected Health welcome applications for all job roles from members of all communities.

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*Candidates who are successful at interview will be subject to background checks including, but not limited to, satisfactory references and an enhanced police check*.