Head of Clinical Governance

Description:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Clinical Governance within a large healthcare organisation.

This is an interim post for 3+ months working in Wales, with a mix of on site and remote working. This is a Band 8b-8d dependent upon experience.

Lead teams on all aspects of clinical governance within the NHS.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead and be managerially responsible for numerous teams, in areas such as; Risk management and patient safety, Health and safety, Clinical audit and effectiveness, Legal services, and Divisional governance;
• Provide professional leadership on all aspects of Quality Governance;
• Act as the named Patient Safety Specialist for all staff within the organisation;
• Guide and support with CQC action plans and improvements within the organisation;
• Ensure compliance with the organisations policies, procedures and guidelines by acting or alerting the senior management team, if practice appears to contravene policy or have a detrimental impact on patient care;
• Develop and influence robust clinical governance policies, procedures and guidelines at an organisational level;
• Responsible for recording and providing evidence that lessons are learned, and action taken following investigation of adverse events;
• Accountable for the management and oversight of all rapid reviews and serious incidents using Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Policy in a sensitive manner, ensuring staff are fully supported throughout the process.

A successful candidate will have:

• Current professional clinical registration with NMC;
• Master’s Degree, or significant proven experience;
• Substantial specialist experience of working in the NHS at a senior level;
• Extensive knowledge of NHS regulation and clinical effectiveness, quality improvement and clinical outcomes agenda;
• Experience of evaluating and being involved in service improvement;
• Highly effective written communication skills, including report writing, policy development and executive/board briefings;
• An ability to extract, analyse and synthesise highly complex information relating to the quality and outcomes of clinical care;
• Capacity to work with other staff under stressful circumstances in a supportive and understanding way.

If you are interested in the post, please send a copy of your CV, along with your availability to ria.healy@finegreen.co.uk