Director of Quality Governance

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust; Salford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

As a Clinical Governance Lead at a leading NHS trust, you will be tasked with developing and embedding strategies for clinical governance, patient safety, and quality assurance. This role offers significant leadership opportunities and requires collaboration with top stakeholders to ensure best practices in healthcare service delivery. You will lead efforts in risk management and ensure clinical governance is integrated into the trust's clinical leadership model.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave allowance

Protected hours for health and wellbeing

Qualifications

• Proven experience in clinical governance and quality assurance.
• Strong leadership experience within the healthcare sector.
• Knowledge of the Care Quality Commission standards and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and embed a robust clinical governance strategy.
• Provide leadership and management for clinical governance functions.
• Ensure quality governance frameworks are implemented effectively.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical governance

Patient safety

Quality assurance

Risk management

Education

Relevant clinical degree

Job description

Working to the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), the post holder will be responsible for developing and embedding a robust strategy for clinical governance, patient safety, quality assurance, which ensures that governance, quality and safety are seen as the responsibility of all staff, supported by an appropriately skilled and responsive governance team. They will, establish, manage and maintain procedures for robust governance of the Trust, working with senior stakeholders as required.

The post holder will provide the required high-level assurances to the Trust Board and Executive Team via the Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Medical Officer by ensuring that clinical governance arrangements are fit for purpose. They will provide leadership and line management to the broader clinical governance function.

The post holder has lead responsibility for professional leadership and development of improvement strategies in the areas of risk management, quality assurance, patient safety, clinical effectiveness, complaints and PALS.

The post holder will have corporate responsibility for developing and overseeing the development and implementation of quality governance framework within the Trust, liaising closely with the Chief Nurse and Chief Medical Officer.

• Provide expert clinical governance leadership across the Trust, reporting directly to the Chief Nursing Officer (and Chief Medical Officer as required).
• Support the development and implementation of the organisation’s quality strategy, aligned with national guidance and Trust objectives and values.
• Ensure that clinical governance is effectively integrated into the trust clinical leadership model and trust governance framework.
• Lead on delivery of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), including developing systems for learning and sharing insights.
• Act as the 'Nominated Individual' for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) registration and Trust Compliance Officer for the Human Tissue Act.
  
  

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Juliette Cosgrove Job title: Chief Nursing Officer Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0161 206 5646