Divisional Head of Governance, Quality and Risk

4 weeks ago

Wigan, United Kingdom Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Estates and Facilities Division for the post of Head of Governance, Risk and Quality. The postholder will be responsible for all aspects of Governance within the Division and provide a link to the Corporate Governance Team.

The post holder will have experience of working and negotiating with Local Authority Building control officer, Local Authority Fire Authorities, Approved inspectors, and other regulatory authorities, such as the HSE, CQC. The post holder will possess a high level of communication skills and be capable of communicating effectively with employees and managers at all levels within the organisation.

The postholder is a member of the Divisional Senior Management Team and will work closely with other senior team members to ensure that their teams and undertakings remain on the correct side of the legal process.

In particular, the postholder will be responsible for Non-clinical Statutory compliance, Health and safety within the Division, Fire Safety for the whole of the Trust, collating evidence and formulating the annual returns to NHSE. The postholder will also be responsible for the management of a robust audit programme to provide assurances to the Director of Estates and Facilities and the Trust Board for Divisional undertakings, such as the management of Asbestos, Legionella, Medical gas and various other fixed installations covered by national standards.

Choose Well - Choose WWL

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

On-Call

Please note that senior positions (AFC band 8A or above) may be expected to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.
- To utilise high level communication skills to be able to work effectively and collaboratively with all staff groups, including medical staff, nursing staff, senior managers and other healthcare professionals to explore complex issues and to make complex decisions related to Governance and
- To employ effective change management skills to empower staff to bring about service improvements.
- To attend and participate fully at meetings and to be able to present information, which is frequently highly contentious, complex and sensitive. This will be to a range of staff including Trust Board and audiences greater than 20 at times as required in order to fulfil the requirements of the
- To develop and maintain excellent working relationships with key Governance and Quality improvement staff i.e., work in partnership with other Divisional Governance Leads, the Corporate Governance team and Quality Improvement staff in order to assist the Division in achieving its Governance and Safety
- To utilise well developed analytical & problem solving skills with the ability to make decisions by determining key points from highly complex data comprising multiple information strands
- Required to concentrate continuously for long periods, and articulate the learning/actions from high level meetings to divisional level
- Act as the link between division and corporate requiring a high skill set and extensive knowledge base across a range of governance areas
- To frequently use IT skills g. systems, spreadsheets, databases, statistical packages to analyse data and produce reports in a useable form for the management team and corporate departments as required.
- To maintain up to date knowledge and interest with developing Quality & Safety practice in the Division with specific attention to key recognised sources of evidence based practice, including: HSE, NPSA, CQC, Monitor, AQuA and Royal
- To attend and represent the Division at the appropriate corporate forum as required. This may require presenting highly complex, sensitive information to large groups in highly charged situations.
- The role involves a high degree of mental effort: able to concentrate, analysis of performanceIgovernance data working in busy environment with interruptions; working to deadlines / immediate
- Frequently directly exposed to distressing, sensitive and confidential information and required to provide support to staff and patients in undertaking difficult conversations
- To identify, manage and reduce hazards in the Division and ensure that staff under his/her direction adhere to all safe systems of work applicable to the area of work and support the wider Division in promoting and monitoring safe systems of work.
- To undertake appropr

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