Paediatric governance Lead | Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust; Bolton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Bolton is looking for a Paediatric Governance Lead to provide integrated governance leadership within its services. The role involves ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and risk management in children's services. Candidates will facilitate risk management programs, promote staff engagement, and evaluate patient care compliance. This full-time position may accommodate part-time applicants and offers a chance to work in a community-focused healthcare environment.

Benefits

Staff development opportunities

Commitment to quality care

Strong sense of community

Qualifications

• Facilitate clinical governance processes across children's services.
• Monitor compliance with national/local guidelines and standards.
• Provide education on risk management and patient safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead governance leadership on safety, quality & risk management.
• Implement risk management strategy across the Trust.
• Monitor risk issues and promote safety awareness.

Skills

Risk management

Clinical governance

Audit programs

Quality improvement

Education and training

Job description

Overview

We are keen to recruit an inspirational individual to the position of Paediatric Governance Lead within our Acute Paediatric service.

The post holder will provide strong wide integrated governance leadership on safety, quality & risk management across children's services. The post holder will be working as part of the divisional governance team and is a key role in providing assurance that our services are compliant and deliver high quality care to our patients.

The postholder will lead and be responsible for efficient clinical governance processes, working closely with the Divisional Governance lead and with service managers and stakeholders to ensure compliance with robust governance processes such as incident reporting, risk management and quality improvement to ensure the responsiveness of our services.

The post is fixed term/secondment offered for 12 months, subject to potential extension, and is offered at full time; part time may be considered. As with all secondment opportunities, interested parties should discuss the opportunity with their line manager before applying.

As the Lead for paediatric governance, the postholder, within the framework of Clinical Governance, will work collaboratively with the senior leadership team in delivering the quality, governance and safety strategy in Children\'s services and ensure that policies and procedures are in place to enable risks to be identified and managed appropriately.

Main responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• The post holder will implement risk management strategy which supports internal reporting and communication across the Trust and external agencies.
• They will be instrumental in monitoring any risk issues and promote and encourage safety awareness.
• They will be using learning from incidents to inform and develop clinical practices and communicate the learning across Children\'s services.

Working at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust offers a rewarding experience due to its strong sense of community, commitment to staff development, and focus on providing high-quality care. The trust emphasizes its values of vision, openness, integrity, compassion, and excellence, which are reflected in its culture and patient care. Furthermore, Bolton NHS FT provides a range of benefits and opportunities for professional growth.

Role requirements

• Facilitate risk management, clinical audit, and clinical effectiveness programs, triangulating with patient experience data.
• Encourage staff and clinician engagement in key clinical governance processes and programs, extending to relationship building within the Division and the Trust.
• Work closely with the paediatric divisional teams in monitoring and evaluating compliance in Paediatrics against national and local guidelines and standards.
• Evaluate aspects of patient care through audit and monitor progress against identified action plans and provide a continuum of direct support to the paediatric divisional teams with regards to external assessment processes (e.g. CQC inspections).
• As a member of the Child Health Governance Team, work with all grades of staff on all hospital sites to implement changes into clinical practice with the aim of improving safety.
• Provide education and training in relation to risk management, patient safety, clinical audit, and continuous quality improvement.
• Liaise with the Director of Clinical Improvement to assist in identifying key education requirements for Clinical Standards, Audit and Effectiveness requirements and assist with delivering these programmes.
• Assist the Division to identify and define the information needs required to monitor clinical effectiveness, patient safety and quality outputs of the service provided.
• Support the Division to develop robust systems and processes in relation to clinical governance and quality (remaining accountable to the Head of Clinical Governance).
• Develop and maintain inter-divisional and Patient Safety Team relationships to ensure that incidents are investigated in accordance with the relevant Trust policy and in alignment with Trust values.
• Coordinate and facilitate investigations in collaboration with the lead investigators, including assisting with the writing of investigation reports, ensuring adherence to deadlines.
• Ensure that actions arising from incident investigations are completed within the given timeline and that learning is shared across the organisation where appropriate.
• Undertake these functions under the line management of the paediatric matron and Head of Clinical Governance.

This advert closes on Thursday 2 Oct 2025