Head of Clinical Governance

DHU Health Care; Oldbury; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Annual leave повышая

Sick pay scheme

Family-friendly policies

Unsociable hours bonus 30-45%

Westfield Health Insurance

Job summary

DHU Healthcare is seeking a Head of Clinical Governance to support the Clinical Director and Nursing Quality teams in implementing and managing the clinical governance strategy across Urgent Care services. You will lead investigations, drive learning and system improvements, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

The role emphasizes promoting patient safety, coordinating with partners, and delivering structured governance reporting while aligning with DHU’s values and NHS standards.

Qualifications

• Clinical professional qualification.
• Experience in a governance role for an NHS provider.
• Minimum two years at a senior level in a health provider organisation.
• Four years in NHS clinical governance/quality/risk management.
• Strong knowledge of clinical governance.
• Understanding of consent and confidentiality.
• Knowledge of clinical risk management, governance, and service quality.
• Understanding of NHS and CQC regulatory environment.
• Knowledge of professional codes of conduct.
• Experience managing a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the clinical governance strategy and update it with local/national requirements.
• Maintain quality patient care, identify safety issues, and drive improvements.
• Lead the governance team to handle complaints, incidents, and feedback promptly.
• Oversee investigations into patient safety incidents and learning outcomes.
• Promote incident reporting and ensure responses are monitored.
• Provide monthly governance reports and quarterly quality reviews.

Skills

Clinical governance

NHS governance

Senior leadership

Quality risk mgmt

Consent confidentiality

NHS regulatory

Team management

CQC knowledge

Incident investigation

Communication skills

Job description

Head of Clinical Governance

Leicester / Derby

£48,539 - £54,815

DHU Healthcare is a 'not-for-profit' community interest company providing a diverse range of services to the NHS frontline, including urgent and emergency care, primary care, out of hours services and NHS111. We care for patients across the West and East Midlands - a population totaling around 14 million. As a socially conscious organisation, we provide compassionate, high-quality care to our patients and offer a supportive work environment to our 2,500 DHU employees. If you would like to find out more about us, you can visit our website at Our profile: DHU Healthcare.

About the role

As a Head of Clinical Governance, you will be responsible for supporting the Clinical Director, Director of Nursing and Quality and Corporate Head of Clinical Governance in the implementation and management of the clinical governance strategy, the Post holder will have specific responsibility for leading the development and implementation of the DHU Urgent Care patient safety strategy working in partnership with a broad range of Health Care partners.

The role involves the development of Clinical Governance and Patient safety activities across the patient journey. The role involves developing the Quality Strategy across the Urgent Care services through the development of the Clinical Governance and patient safety agenda; managing local programmes, organisational Clinical Governance, and patient safety activities; leading serious / patient safety incident investigations (PSII’s), leading on identifying opportunities for organisational learning, system improvement and patient safety.

The post holder will participate in promoting and advancing DHU Health Care CIC, whilst working towards DHU’s Values, behaviour's, and principles.

We are always:

• Compassionate – we show kindness, consideration and understanding in everything we do – and demonstrate our caring nature to our patient, people, and communities.
• Accomplished – we are available day and night – a response, adaptable, professional NHS partner, providing the best advice, care, and treatment for every individual.
• Respectful – we recognise the value that individual and team difference bring – welcoming views, listening, being honest, and learning from others’ experiences.
• Encouraging – we believe everyone matters, so we inspire confidence in other – promoting ‘speaking up’, fostering career-long learning and development, and supporting improvement ideas.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the clinical governance strategy to ensure this is constantly updated to include relevant local and national requirements and develop appropriate processes to monitor its effectiveness.
• Maintain quality patient care, identify patient safety issues, and identify learning outcomes / areas for improvement within DHU Urgent Care services.
• Lead the integrated governance team to ensure all clinical governance requests, complaints, incidents, patient feedback, coroner’s requests, and medico-legal issues are responded to in a timely manner. To support the integrated governance team to ensure processes are in place to respond to requests.
• Lead the collation, investigation and response to patient complaints, feedback, compliments, serious incidents, incidents, and healthcare professional feedback.
• To be responsible for the management of incidents and complaints across DHU Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) services and ensure compliance with national and other appropriate requirements, to include:
  • Ensuring a thorough investigation is undertaken for all serious / patient safety incident investigations and for others, where appropriate, and to support clinical staff and those who are involved in any incident through the process.
  • Promoting incident reporting systems across clinical services and ensure incidents are being reported, action taken, and outcomes monitored within the services and clinical support departments.
  • Produce monthly reports clinical governance reports, quarterly quality reports and serious or patient safety incident investigation reports in a timely manner.
  • Inform the Corporate Head of Clinical Governance and Executive Directors regarding the notification of serious / patient safety incident reports, progress of investigation and investigation outcomes.

Essential Skills:

• Clinical professional qualification
• Experience of working within a governance role for an NHS provider
• Two years of working at a senior level in a health provider organisation
• Four years’ experience in an NHS clinical or clinical governance / quality / risk management
• Strong knowledge of clinical governance
• Understanding of consent and confidentiality
• Working knowledge of clinical risk management, clinical governance, effectiveness, and service quality issues
• Broad understanding of the NHS and CQC external regulatory environment
• Knowledge of professional codes of conduct
• Experience of managing a team
• Basic knowledge of NHS Complaints regulations

In return, we can offer:

Joining DHU means you will receive some great benefits. This will include access to the NHS pension scheme - alongside a generous annual leave allowance that grows with your length of service or recognises your existing NHS commitment. We provide an incremental sick pay scheme and family-friendly policies like maternity and paternity pay that match the NHS offer, alongside working enhancements including an additional 30 - 45% of annual salary for unsociable hours benefit (earning potential will vary on shift days / times). We will also support your health and wellbeing - with complementary Westfield Health Insurance membership that covers basic costs like your dental care, glasses, physiotherapy, chiropody and many more.

• Access to the NHS pension scheme - alongside a generous annual leave allowance that grows with your length of service or recognises your existing NHS commitment.
• We provide an incremental sick pay scheme and family-friendly policies like maternity and paternity pay that match the NHS offer.
• Working enhancements including an additional 30 - 45% of annual salary for unsociable hours benefit (earning potential will vary on shift days / times).
• Health and wellbeing support - with complementary Westfield Health Insurance membership that covers basic costs like your dental care, glasses, physiotherapy, chiropody and many more.

At DHU Healthcare, we are committed to fostering an environment where Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and a strong sense of Belonging are not only celebrated but actively promoted. We believe that every individual, regardless of their background, deserves the right to access quality healthcare services and to be treated with respect and dignity. Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging is at the heart of everything we do, from patient care to our organisational culture.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £48,539.00-£54,815.00 per year

Work Location: In person