Quality Governance Lead - Milton Keynes Community Health Services
| Posting date: | 13 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 14 May 2026 |
| Location: | Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7927316/333-D-MK-CM-1200 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
Milton Keynes Community Health Services (MKCHS), part of CNWL, is seeking an experienced and motivatedQuality Governance Leadto join the Diggory Division. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving quality improvement, patient safety, and clinical governance across a diverse range of community services.
You will work closely with clinical and operational teams to ensure robust governance systems are in place, supporting high standards of care and continuous improvement. The post holder will be instrumental in embedding a culture of learning, transparency, and excellence.
The post exists to promote, support, monitor and lead clinical and service effectiveness intheCommunity HealthServicesDirectorate.Thepost-holderwillhaveadvancedknowledgeof key regulatory frameworks and will use this to support the Directorate in the development,implementationandmonitoringofkeystandards.
The post-holder will work with the Service Director, Clinical Director and Service Managers to establish and maintain an effectiveness infrastructure for theDirectorate, which embeds service governance at all levels and which enables everyservice within the Directorate to provide assurance to the Board via routes established inCNWL-MKandthewiderorganization.
The post-holder will have a special focus on the Serious Incident (SI) processes and investigations in the directorate and will monitor and support requirements of effective Governance and Service Quality related to SI’s.
The post holder will work closely with Service Managers tofacilitate learning and development approaches withinservices.
There’s a place for you at CNWL.
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
· To work closely with the Senior Management Team to maintain effective oversightof all aspects of the Serious Incident Processes.
· To assist in the review of action plans and to suggest themes for audit that mayarisefromrisks/trends,incidents,auditsandcomplaints.
· To manage complex data collection from a variety of sources and contributeinformationanddatatodashboardsasrequired.
· Keepuptodatewithdevelopmentsbothnationallyand locallyinrelationtothequality agenda.
· Toworkcollaborativelywithteamstoembedlearningfromincidents/complaints.
· To attendrelevant meetingsandforumswherequalityis thefocus.
· Contribute to the QualityAgenda –supporttheCQIFandCOGmeetings.
· Contribute in the management ofthe DirectorateAuditPlan
• PromoteQImethodologyandsupportserviceswithimprovementplans
This advert closes on Monday 27 Apr 2026
Milton Keynes Community Health Services (MKCHS), part of CNWL, is seeking an experienced and motivatedQuality Governance Leadto join the Diggory Division. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving quality improvement, patient safety, and clinical governance across a diverse range of community services.
You will work closely with clinical and operational teams to ensure robust governance systems are in place, supporting high standards of care and continuous improvement. The post holder will be instrumental in embedding a culture of learning, transparency, and excellence.
The post exists to promote, support, monitor and lead clinical and service effectiveness intheCommunity HealthServicesDirectorate.Thepost-holderwillhaveadvancedknowledgeof key regulatory frameworks and will use this to support the Directorate in the development,implementationandmonitoringofkeystandards.
The post-holder will work with the Service Director, Clinical Director and Service Managers to establish and maintain an effectiveness infrastructure for theDirectorate, which embeds service governance at all levels and which enables everyservice within the Directorate to provide assurance to the Board via routes established inCNWL-MKandthewiderorganization.
The post-holder will have a special focus on the Serious Incident (SI) processes and investigations in the directorate and will monitor and support requirements of effective Governance and Service Quality related to SI’s.
The post holder will work closely with Service Managers tofacilitate learning and development approaches withinservices.
There’s a place for you at CNWL.
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
· To work closely with the Senior Management Team to maintain effective oversightof all aspects of the Serious Incident Processes.
· To assist in the review of action plans and to suggest themes for audit that mayarisefromrisks/trends,incidents,auditsandcomplaints.
· To manage complex data collection from a variety of sources and contributeinformationanddatatodashboardsasrequired.
· Keepuptodatewithdevelopmentsbothnationallyand locallyinrelationtothequality agenda.
· Toworkcollaborativelywithteamstoembedlearningfromincidents/complaints.
· To attendrelevant meetingsandforumswherequalityis thefocus.
· Contribute to the QualityAgenda –supporttheCQIFandCOGmeetings.
· Contribute in the management ofthe DirectorateAuditPlan
• PromoteQImethodologyandsupportserviceswithimprovementplans
This advert closes on Monday 27 Apr 2026
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