Neonatal Governance Lead Nurse | Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	29 September 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	29 October 2025
Location:	Scunthorpe, DN15 7BH
Company:	Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7509055/208-F63584-25-1

Summary

North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust has two neonatal units one at Scunthorpe General Hospital and the other at Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby both are Local Level 2 Neonatal Units with Intensive Care, High Dependency Special Care and Transitional Care cots. The units care for babies over 26+6 weeks gestation and stabilises any baby under that gestation, to be transferred to a tertiary hospital/ NICU.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced neonatal nurse to join our team, and develop the role of neonatal governance lead, managing and co-ordinating all aspects of clinical risk, governance and improve 'Badgernet' data quality. Working also with the Neonatal Governance lead at Hull Teaching Hospitals

The Neonatal Governance lead will be responsible for contributing to the provision of a first-class service to patients by ensuring the Directorate meets NHS clinical governance objectives and targets. This is a vital role that has a major impact on developing a clinical governance culture and ensuring patient safety.

Our teams aspire to provide high quality and evidence based; clinical, developmental, and family integrated care to ensure the best outcomes for our babies and their families.

As the Neonatal Governance Lead, you will be responsible for leading the investigation of significant events and serious incidents within the neonatal service. This includes conducting thorough root cause analyses, incorporating human factors principles, and developing comprehensive action plans to address identified issues. You will ensure that all investigations are completed in a timely and rigorous manner, providing clear, evidence-based reports and recommendations.

You will support clinical and non-clinical staff in understanding and learning from incidents, promoting a culture of openness, reflection, and continuous improvement. A key part of your role will be to monitor and evaluate the implementation of actions, ensuring that lessons learned are embedded in clinical practice and systems to reduce the risk of recurrence.

Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, you will contribute to the wider governance framework, attending and presenting at governance meetings, and maintaining accurate documentation and assurance records. You will also provide advice and training on governance processes, supporting the development of safe, high-quality neonatal care in line with national and local standards.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Within this role you will lead on all governance issues , working collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will lead on any issues that arise within the department including Serious Incident Reviews and Root Cause Analysis.
They will promote a non blame environment where clinical governance and patient safety are paramount to the service.
The role includes the risk management and the investigation of all incidents and complaints. This will be fed back in weekly and monthly meetings
This will be done in a non-judgmental learning environment always allowing staff to reflect on their practice.
Essential skills include being a visible accessible leader, excellent communication skills always remaining confidential and empathetic at all times.
This role includes the development and implementation of policies and procedures in collaboration with the team.

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website athttps://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.


This advert closes on Monday 13 Oct 2025