Head of Clinical Governance
hace 16 horas
Tadworth
The Head of Clinical Governance will lead and enhance the organisation’s commitment to delivering high-quality, safe care for children. This role is pivotal in overseeing clinical governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, managing clinical risks, and implementing quality improvement initiatives. The postholder will work collaboratively across teams to promote a culture of safety and continuous improvement, aligning with The Children’s Trust’s strategic objectives. Whilst the post directly reports to the Director of Nursing and Quality, the remit of the role spans the whole organisation and works across all clinical directorates. Before applying for this role, please read the following information about this opportunity found below. Interview date: Friday 2 January 2026 This role is not open for sponsorship. Duties and Responsibilities Clinical Governance • Develop and maintain an effective clinical governance framework that supports safe and high-quality care., • Facilitate regular clinical governance meetings to discuss performance, incidents, and quality improvement initiatives., • Lead initiatives to enhance patient safety across all services, promoting a culture of transparency and reporting., • Implement and maintain the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), ensuring that learning from incidents is captured and shared., • Identify, assess, and manage clinical risks within the organisation, ensuring effective risk mitigation strategies are in place., • Conduct regular reviews of incident reports and risk assessments to inform organisational learning and development., • Develop and implement quality improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing patient outcomes and experiences., • Lead quality impact assessments for new initiatives or changes in practice, evaluating potential risks and benefits and manage the organisational governance in relation to these., • Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, standards, and guidelines, including CQC regulations and national safety frameworks., • Maintain an up-to-date understanding of regulatory changes and ensure organisational policies and practices reflect these updates., • Design and implement a comprehensive clinical audit program that evaluates the quality of care and compliance with clinical standards., • Oversee the incident management process, ensuring that incidents are reported, investigated, and learned from effectively., • Promote adherence to professional standards and best practices among clinical staff, ensuring high levels of accountability and professionalism., • Develop, review, and update clinical policies and procedures to ensure they align with current best practices and regulatory requirements. Ensure that medical records are maintained accurately and confidentially, supporting patient safety and care continuity. Medicines Management • Line manage the lead pharmacist and wider pharmacy team, • Manage the complaints process, ensuring that concerns are addressed promptly and appropriately, and lessons learned are disseminated., • Undertake other or additional duties that are within your skills and abilities, as the organisation may reasonably require from time to time. Adhere to all Health and Safety guidelines, principles and regulations required to perform your role and comply with The Children’s Trust policies and procedures. Wellbeing and Emotional Resilience • Maintains a positive approach and outlook when dealing with change and overcoming challenges and problems., • Recognises own limitations, develops realistic goals, and uses support network resource when or if necessary., • Treats challenges and problems as a learning experience., • Remains organised and focused when under pressure., • Responds appropriately and effectively to all constructive feedback., • Active NMC membership, • Evidence of significant operational leadership experience at AfC band 8a equivalent or above, • Experience working with children with learning disability, • Experience of working within quality and clinical governance dedicated roles, • Experience within training/education/practice-based education and presenting effectively to a variety of audiences, • Experience managing significant budgets, • Experience writing business cases for service proposals, • Experience of effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders, • Dynamic, passionate, open, participative, and supportive leadership style, • Strong influencing skills, • Ability to develop and deliver innovative training programmes, • Clinically credible in own area of practice, • Able to deliver a multi-faceted service balancing the capacity of each area to meet service needs and priorities. Strong understanding of: • Health care educational framework and of developing training strategies, • Clinical and operational audit data and analysis/presentation methodology, • Multidisciplinary team working, • Care of children with learning disabilities, • Safeguarding, • Commitment to the vision and values of The Children’s Trust., • Flexible and ‘can do’ attitude to competing commitments in workload., • Highly motivated and reliable., • Ability to cope working in a demanding environment. The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service. Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom. Staff Benefits The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits on our staff flexible benefits platform, on-site nursery, free eye tests, enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms and time off for gender reassignment. We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service. Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable), Teacher’s pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment. Rehabilitation of Offenders Many roles at The Children’s Trust are exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020) and as such, are subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, which will disclose all unspent convictions and adult cautions and any spent convictions or adult cautions that would not be protected. The exceptions to this are our retail roles within The Children’s Trust shops, which are subject to Basic DBS checks which will disclose unspent convictions or adult cautions. Equal Opportunity Employer To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK’s diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark – our broad EDI group. Read more about our EDI work here. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements. Online Searches In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidate’s name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. xrnqpay Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview.
