Clinical Governance Director

1 day ago


Widnes, Halton, United Kingdom Community Integrated Care Full time
Job Description

We are seeking an exceptional leader to develop and lead our Clinical Governance strategy across our award-winning Charity as our new Director of Clinical Governance.

About the Role

This role develops the clinical governance strategy and leads a team to deliver this strategy through the creation and management of clinical support frameworks, the provision of expertise and leadership in clinical governance, quality assurance, and improvement.

This role provides assurance to the Executive Team and to the Board of Trustees on all aspects of clinical governance to achieve clinical governance excellence.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the development and implementation of clinical governance strategy, and national and local initiatives that improve clinical support and quality of care for the people we support.
  • Ensure a person-centred ethos in every aspect of the role, promoting choices and preferences, reducing health inequalities, respecting human rights, and embedding equal citizenship.
  • Lead and role model team culture that stimulates and supports innovation, positive risk-taking, self-reflection, adaptability, and continuous improvement to support the identification and scaling of successful innovations across the organisation.
  • Deputise for the Chief Quality and Risk Officer when required, and support the development of regular review of incidents and learning reviews, lessons learnt and good practice to be shared.
  • Leading meetings, ensuring brilliant communication across the clinical governance team, and engaging with operational colleagues to ensure that there is excellent two-way communication and that the clinical governance team are an integrated support team for operations.
  • Network across the sector, including benchmarking and collaborative projects that enhance the quality of clinical governance within the organisation.
  • As our clinical expert, support the development of frameworks for people with the most complex needs, ensuring that the charity is proactively managing risk.
  • Develop a culture of high quality customer care, based on best practice in the social, health, and commercial sectors.
  • Oversee the identification and management of clinical risk, and lead on all safeguarding policy matters and act as the Charity's Caldicott Guardian.
  • Continually seek to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of services to support the provision of excellent care and support from the clinical team, ensuring a fair distribution of the resource, meeting priorities across the Charity.
  • Work with other key clinical staff across the Charity to help promote a culture of wider clinical support and where appropriate draw on external MDT support for services.
  • Ensure the Executive Team and Board of Trustees has accessible information related to quality clinical governance across the breadth of our services, ensuring information is accurate, reliable, relevant, and timely to support the effective assessment of performance and inform key decisions by the Executive Team and the Board.
  • Actively engage with internal and external stakeholders and review and interpret new national guidance and legislation relating to clinical/integrated clinical governance and quality improvements and identify local implementation for the Charity.
  • Develop and implement effective monitoring systems and appropriate quality indicators to report on and promote continuous improvement in the quality of care, meet the Charity's statutory and regulatory obligations, and provide management data.
  • Work with the Head of Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement and the Head of Information & Regulatory Governance to implement and monitor the effectiveness of Quality Improvement Plans to provide assurance that local quality improvement priorities, key national quality improvement targets, and the commissioner's contract are being met.
  • Lead and support the Clinical Governance Team, ensuring each member of the team receives appropriate professional and clinical supervision and development.
  • Provide assurance to the ET and Board of Trustees on clinical governance matters, and partner with operational teams to develop and deliver high-quality, personalised care and support and to offer support and guidance where required.
  • Provide board and regional-level reporting on the work of the Clinical Governance Team.
Requirements
  • Skilled at influencing and negotiating at Executive Level.
  • Ability to develop national policy guidance and create practical plans to turn this into meaningful action.
  • Demonstrable experience operating effectively at Executive Level.
  • Understanding of clinical governance, risk management, safeguarding, and quality assurance as it applies in Social Care.
  • Depth of experience in social care and independent living.
  • Chief Quality and Risk Officer, Director of Clinical Governance, Senior Clinical Governance and Practice Development Manager, Senior Clinical Governance and Practice Development Manager, Senior Clinical Governance and Practice Development Manager, Psychologist, Senior PBS Strategy and Practice Design Manager, Head of Information and Regulatory Risk, Head of Quality and Continuous Improvement.
  • A relevant health, allied health, or social work professional qualification (such as nursing, occupational therapy, speech and language, social worker) would be beneficial but is not essential.
  • A current professional registration (such as NMC, HCPC) would be beneficial.
  • Experience in and expertise in managing complex change processes while maintaining sustained improvement on performance.
  • Experience in building organisational capabilities, including establishing a clear vision and direction and translation into successful outcomes.
  • Current knowledge of CQC and CI regulations, frameworks, and inspection process.
  • Deep sector knowledge of the care sector, including regulatory and contractual frameworks and relevant legislation.
  • Experience of carrying out regulated activity audits or inspections.
  • Excellent breadth and depth of knowledge of personalisation and inclusion agendas.


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