Head of Safety Effectiveness & Compliance

Morgan Hunt Recruitment; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Head of Safety Effectiveness & Compliance for a pivotal role in NHS based in East Sussex. The ideal candidate will provide leadership in safety and quality standards, ensuring regulatory compliance within a complex healthcare environment. Responsibilities include leading multiple teams, implementing key frameworks, and driving service improvements. This is a hybrid role with a competitive pay rate.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a senior management position in a complex healthcare organization.
• Comprehensive understanding of clinical governance and healthcare regulation.
• Experience developing corporate policy and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple teams to ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory standards.
• Implement the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
• Monitor and optimize clinical governance systems.

Skills

Leadership in Clinical Governance

Understanding of Care Quality Commission requirements

Ability to drive service improvements

Experience in managing audits and compliance

Dynamic and transformational leadership

Job description

Morgan Hunt requires an Head of Safety Effectiveness & Compliance for NHS based in East Sussex. Pay Rate: £38.31ph Ltd. Hours 37.5 Mon to Fri - 3 days on site based and hybrid working available 2 days a week. Location: East Sussex. Duration: 3 months on going contract.

Job Role

The Head of Safety, Effectiveness & Compliance is a pivotal leadership role within the Clinical Governance structure, accountable for driving and embedding a culture of safety, learning, and continuous improvement across the organisation. Working with the Associate Director of Clinical Governance & Quality, the candidate will provide strategic and operational leadership to the Trust's Clinical Governance and Health & Safety strategy and the processes, systems, training, enabling tools required to implement and embed practice, to ensure the Trust complies with statutory, regulatory, and national quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the following teams: Patient Safety & Datix Team; Clinical Effectiveness & Compliance Team; Health & Safety Team; Moving & Handling Team; Medical Devices Team.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership to ensure the Trust complies with statutory, regulatory, and national quality standards. Lead the continued implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), delivery of a Trust-wide clinical audit & effectiveness programme and Health & Safety legislation.
• Be responsible for ensuring that safety and effectiveness functions are monitored and that they meet regulatory requirements of the CQC, and other bodies.
• Ensure triangulation of intelligence across governance systems — incidents, complaints, audits, mortality reviews, and risks — to identify thematic learning; use insights to drive service improvements and share across the Trust through governance forums, learning networks, and reporting structures.
• Oversee the management and optimisation of clinical governance systems, ensuring the Trust's digital platforms for incident reporting, clinical audit & effectiveness, and learning are fit for purpose and used effectively.
• Carry out any other duties commensurate with the role, responding to changes within the healthcare landscape.

Qualifications & Experience

The candidate is expected to have significant experience of working in a senior management position in a complex healthcare organisation. The candidate will possess a comprehensive understanding of clinical governance, the requirements of regulators (particularly the Care Quality Commission and the Health & Safety Executive), and NHS national and local agendas. The candidate will need to be a dynamic and transformational leader with experience of developing corporate policy, strategy, and preparing Board level assurance reports.

Other Information

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to temporary vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer; job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.