Director of Quality Governance

Integrated Care System; Salford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Director of Quality Governance responsible for embedding clinical governance strategies, ensuring quality and safety across the organization. The ideal candidate will provide expert leadership, manage compliance with regulations, and drive improvement across healthcare services in Greater Manchester.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

Flexible working opportunities

Protected hours for health and wellbeing activities

Qualifications

• Experience in quality/clinical governance functions within a complex organization.
• Experience leading a CQC improvement program.
• Evidence of transformational change management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and embed strategies for clinical governance and patient safety.
• Provide leadership in quality assurance and governance.
• Act as the 'Nominated Individual' for CQC registration.

Skills

Values-based leadership

Strategic decision making

Political awareness

Education

Master's degree in Management

Project Management Qualifications (e.g., Prince 2, MSP)

Job description

Go back Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Director of Quality Governance

The closing date is 29 July 2025

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Management held or qualified by equivalent level of experience (degree does not need to be held)
• Evidence of continued Professional Development.
• Evidence of transformational change management.
• Project Management Qualifications such as Prince 2, MSP or similar qualifications or experience of Project Management commensurate with the role.

Experience

• Experience of the delivery of quality/clinical governance functions within a complex organisation
• Experience of leading a CQC improvement programme and evidence of improved ratings
• Experience or working with senior stakeholders including Board level, presenting reporting and persuading and influencing them to a way of thinking
• Experience of working in an NHS environment
• Experience of working in a complex cultural environment and able to demonstrate an improvement in ways of working between teams
• Experience of working with datasets including analysis and collation, and using this to support an argument
• Experience of managing a team and working closely with workstreams
• Significant experience and a successful track record of project/programme/initiative management
• Demonstrable experience of managing and influencing change in large/complex organisations
• Experience of implementing governance structures across systems

Knowledge

• Knowledge of current NHS strategy and policy issues and ability to translate them to a local context and create local plans

Skills

• Demonstrates values-based leadership style
• Demonstrate strategic decision making at all levels, stimulating innovative practice and policy in a dynamic way
• Demonstrate high levels of political and organisational awareness and the ability to reach a common understanding without compromising the needs of patients and their families
• Ability to manage different projects simultaneously

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.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust