Associate Director of Governance

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:

- In collaboration with the Care Organisation’s senior leadership team, provide visible leadership and direction to ensure that there are effective Integrated Governance systems, implemented and devolved across the Care Organisation, ensuring all risks are identified and managed via the Care Organisation’s assurance framework processes.The successful post holder will oversee and have responsibility for all elements of patient safety, safeguarding, clinical effectiveness, health and safety and compliance for the care organisation. An expert in the field, the post holder will be expected to provide pertinent, up-to-date professional advice and expert knowledge to the Director of Nursing and senior divisional management teams to support the successful delivery of corporate, professional, operational and clinical objectives.

**Main duties of the job**:
Ensure that the Care Organisation complies with statutory, regulatory, contractual and best practice requirements in relation to governance and quality, with effective assurance monitoring processes in place, through ward to Care Management Board integrated reporting and risk escalation processes. The post will be based within one of the 4 Care Organisations but the post holder may be required to work elsewhere within the Group.

**Working for our organisation**:
Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qulifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Graduate qualification in a healthcare related field
- Masters Degree or equivalent experience
- Evidence of frequent and continuing professional/leadership development

**Desirable criteria**:

- Registered Clinician

**Experieince**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Considerable experience of managing governance at a senior level in a large, complex
- Healthcare Organisation; including evidence of strategic developmentat least 5 years senior management experience.
- Proven experience of managing staff from a range of professional backgrounds within an Acute NHS environment and in developing clinical teams.
- Significant experience in managing patient safety, clinical effectiveness, health & safety, compliance and legal departments.

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of integrated governance systems across Organisational boundaries

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Significant knowledge of statutory, regulatory requirements within governance in the NHS
- Highly developed leadership and motivational skills - able to work effectively across a large complex organisation; ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and large teams, and have them understand your expectations.
- High level of interpersonal skills both written and verbal
- High level of management competency, including ability to manage and lead in a complex, dynamic professional environment.
- Ability to work with different disciplines across the health, education and social care settings.

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