Clinical Governance and Patient Safety Lead
| Posting date: | 16 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | 317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary, NE1 4LP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9317-25-0984 |
Summary
Patient Safety Work with all services within the Clinical Board to promote and create a culture of openness, transparency and collaboration, including ensuring compliance with duty of candour and being open. Promote a culture of incident reporting and support investigations into adverse events, incidents, and near misses, identifying systems issues, implementing corrective actions, and facilitating local and organizational learning. Participate in and support the embedding of PSIRF within and across the Clinical Board. In conjunction with and on behalf of the Medical Quality and Safety Lead, Head of Nursing and CGARD Clinical Board representatives, support the development of a robust patient safety and clinical governance framework within the Board to ensure the provision of safe and high-quality care. Collaborate with Quality and Safety leads, Head of Nursing and Matrons within the board and other stakeholders to champion patient safety initiatives and drive continuous improvement. As a key member of the Quality Oversight Group (QOG) for the Clinical Board, facilitate learning and continual improvement in response to concerns raised, incidents and complaints. Sharing local learning within the Board and contributing to Trust wide learning forums e.g. Patient Safety Briefings. Assist in the development of cross cutting policies, procedures, and guidelines that promote a culture of patient safety, risk identification and mitigation throughout the Clinical Board. Understand the highest risks facing the Clinical Board and the potential mitigating actions being put in place to address these. In conjunction with the Head of Nursing, Medical Quality and Safety Lead, Matron, clinical governance and audit leads for the Clinical Board advise on all aspects of clinical governance, clinical risk management and patient safety. As an integral part of the Clinical Board QOG , facilitate, develop and co-ordinate clinical risk management within the Board. Foster a just culture in line with the corporate objectives, resulting in the delivery of a high-quality, cost-effective service. Promote a positive learning environment where lessons are learnt and changes implemented to ensure a quality service working in partnership with the Director of Operations, Clinical Board Chair Head of Nursing, Matron and Clinical Directors. To work closely with colleagues to raise the profile of clinical governance and risk management, highlighting in practice the relationship between patient safety and the management and everyday clinical practice and the effects on the patient to identify areas of good practice and highlight areas that can be improved. Clinical Effectiveness and Quality Assurance In conjunction with the Medical Lead for Quality and Safety and Head of Nursing, develop and implement a cross cutting clinical effectiveness and QA programme for the Board to monitor and enhance the quality of care provided across the Board. Work with services within the Board to ensure that appropriate key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure clinical effectiveness and outcomes, patient experiences and quality and safety are used to inform a quality report for the Board. Analyse data, identify areas for improvement, and implement evidence-based practices to drive quality improvement initiatives. Support the Medical Quality and Safety Lead and Head of Nursing to develop and embed robust audit and assurance processes within the Clinical Board. Help to promote and support an effective audit program within the Clinical Board and produce a yearly high level audit report, in conjunction with other audit leads within the Clinical Board, to demonstrate the positive effects for patient outcomes and pathways. Support development of an effective system to review and act upon recommendations from any external agency visits, accreditations etc. including improvement plan implementation. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you. You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.