Governance Lead - Group Operations

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; United States; Remote; USD 73,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Divisional Governance Lead to provide senior leadership and direction for robust governance and quality mechanisms across the division, potentially overseeing more than one division.

You will drive risk management, assurance, and regulatory compliance, deliver clinical governance programmes, analyse risk, and ensure action plans are implemented to improve patient safety and outcomes within Trust-wide governance structures.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development to support the delivery of a senior role in quality governance.
• Significant experience in quality governance in a health care setting.
• Experience of effectively delivering risk management within a service.
• Experience in managing organisational activity to meet CQC/Regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge and experience of national regulatory frameworks, national quality agenda and current emerging issues.
• Expert level knowledge of the critical factors in delivering improvement in governance standards.
• Experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders.
• Detailed understanding of current healthcare policy and appreciation of the implications of this on the Trust.
• Experience of writing detailed reports.
• Experience of effective negotiation and influencing skills to drive change and performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible senior leadership and direction to ensure effective governance mechanisms within the division.
• Oversee the implementation of the Risk Management Strategy and Risk Management Policy within the division.
• Ensure compliance with assurance and escalation processes as set out in the Quality Governance Framework.
• Ensure division compliance with regulatory requirements and contractual commitments.
• Investigate patient safety incidents and identify appropriate actions.
• Deliver divisional clinical governance work programme and quality improvement plans.
• Deliver the divisional effectiveness agenda including outcome data, mortality, morbidity, and compliance with standards.
• Provide expert advice across governance structures and oversee delivery of governance work programmes.

Skills

Governance leadership

Risk management

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Degree level or equivalent

Continuing professional development

Quality governance experience

CQC/Regulatory experience

Job description

In collaboration with the Head of Governance and Divisional Directors for their division, the post holder will provide visible senior leadership and direction to ensure that there are effective governance mechanisms in place within the division (postholders may oversee more than one division). This includes the implementation of key Trust processes, systems and training as enabling tools for staff to ensure safe and effective care for patients The post-holder will support the division to comply with statutory, regulatory, contractual and best practice requirements in relation to governance and quality. They will ensure the division has effective assurance monitoring processes in place and that it delivers point of care to Board integrated reporting and risk escalation., The Divisional Governance Lead will oversee the following functions:

• Implementation of the Risk Management Strategy and Risk Management Policy within their division.
• Compliance with assurance and escalation processes as set out in the Quality Governance Framework
• Compliance with regulatory requirements within their division.
• Compliance with commissioning and contractual requirements relevant to their division.
• Investigation of patient safety incidents within their division, including serious incidents and identification of appropriate actions.
• Analysis of divisional incident trends and delivery of associated learning.
• Management of key divisional cases from the ombudsman or coroner.
• Aggregate analysis of divisional learning from claims, complaints, concerns, coroner cases, incidents and serious incidents.
• Delivery of the divisional clinical audit and quality improvement plans.
• Delivery of the divisional effectiveness agenda including outcome data, mortality, morbidity and compliance with key standards and guidance., Accountable for divisional assurance for the quality and effectiveness of care, governance and standards.

Responsible for the management and inquiry of divisional risk and the associated quality assurance systems and policies, regulatory requirements and quality governance arrangements. Compliance with key performance indicators that facilitate analysis of divisional quality performance. Provide support across the division's governance structures, providing expert advice and overseeing the delivery of the clinical governance work programme, implementing governance and quality objectives at Trust and divisional level. Analyse risk for areas of responsibility developing strong controls and robust assurance. Deliver the highest levels of effective transformational leadership Ensure staff within areas of responsibility are led, managed and supported. Responsible for dealing with any disciplinary and capability concerns, including acting in a professional advisory capacity for Trust-wide disciplinary/capability hearings/investigations. Engagement of staff in trust business and promotion of staff wellbeing Responsible for oversight and delivery of the divisional Quality Governance budget including any cost improvements. To advise on clinical and internal audit and take responsibility in monitoring associated action plans Ensure recruitment and retention of staff with the required competencies to meet the service requirements, The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £25.70 (standard disclosure) or £46.70 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Our statement on modern slavery We have zero tolerance of slavery and human trafficking and are committed to maintaining and improving systems, processes and policies to avoid complicity in human rights violation and to prevent slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain. The Trust policies, procedures, governance and legal arrangements are robust, ensuring that proper checks and due diligence are applied in employment procedures to ensure compliance with this legislation. We also conform to the NHS employment check standards within our workforce recruitment and selection practices. This strategic approach incorporates analysis of the Trust's supply chains and its partners to assess risk exposure and management on modern slavery. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development to support the delivery of a senior role in quality governance, Significant experience in quality governance in a health care setting
• Experience of effectively delivering risk management within a service
• Experience in managing organisational activity to meet CQC/Regulatory requirements
• Knowledge and experience of national regulatory frameworks, national quality agenda and current emerging issues
• Expert level knowledge of the critical factors in delivering improvement in governance standards
• Experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders
• Detailed understanding of current healthcare policy and appreciation of the implications of this on the Trust
• Experience of writing detailed reports
• Experience of effective negotiation and influencing skills to drive change and performance

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.