Job summary
Are you driven by a passion to make a difference to young people's lives? Barnardo's are looking for a registered healthcare professional to join our team asStrategic Lead for Clinical & Quality Governance.
Barnardo's ambition is to be a quality provider of integrated health and social care support contracts, increasing the reach of health and wellbeing services to reduce health inequalities in the communities we work in.
We're looking for a Clinical Quality and Governance Lead to support the Head of Safeguarding & Quality, in leading the development, delivery, and refinement of the clinical governance policy, framework, and practice as part of Children's Service operations.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to:
- Lead the creation, design, delivery, and evaluation of anew Clinical Governance Frameworkas part of our Quality Governance Strategy on supporting mental health and integrated child and family health services for Children & Young People.
- Provide strategic leadership for clinical governance and quality, identifying and implementing assurance and compliance monitoring and improvement plans, alongside operational management.
- Support the Directorship in the development and delivery of strategies pertaining to clinical governance, risk management and quality improvement.
- Lead the clinical governance agenda and develop of robust systems in clinical governance and quality, underpinning safe clinical practice and fostering multidisciplinary working across the organisation.
- Lead on the implementation and delivery of a range of clinical governance activities within services to support performance reporting to commissioners.
- Supporting the organisation to meet the regulatory requirements of external standards and inspections.
- Support the development of assurance systems that identify evidence-based and quality practices in place throughout the organisationand that quality practice is disseminated widely across regions and nationally.
- Work with the new one Childrens Services Team and BDU (Business Development Unit) to identify how to meet all clinical governance requirements to commission and grow digital and new health and support services.
About us
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo'svalues. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Working Relationships:
Internal: Health Team, Children's Services colleagues, and key corporate stakeholders such
as business development, audit and assurance, data and insight, policy, research and
evaluation, media, and communications, digital, service design etc.
External: NHS, external Commissioners, Regulators of services, Public Health and the Voluntary and
Community Sector.
Job Purpose:
The Strategic Lead for Clinical Governance will support the Head of Safeguarding & Quality,
Director of Health and key stakeholders across the organisation in leading the development,
delivery, and refinement of several key programmes of work to embed the clinical
governance policy, framework, and practice as part of Children's Service operations to
achieve this ambition.
The role requires overall understanding of Early Years and Integrated Child & Family Health
alongside Mental Health support services, emerging service options, knowledge of demand,
and leading practice.
The role will lead on policy development and implementation, to promote systemic
improvements in clinical governance activity across all integrated health and care services.
The post holder will contribute to the achievement of the CQC quality statements for
services providing regulated activities (Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulations 2014),
including the development, and embedding of assurance mechanisms to test these,
developing, and delivering improvement methodologies to support both CQC compliance
and high-quality care.
This role will support the delivery of the aims and objectives of the health pillars in our new
corporate strategy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Working Relationships:
Internal: Health Team, Children's Services colleagues, and key corporate stakeholders such
as business development, audit and assurance, data and insight, policy, research and
evaluation, media, and communications, digital, service design etc.
External: NHS, external Commissioners, Regulators of services, Public Health and the Voluntary and
Community Sector.
Job Purpose:
The Strategic Lead for Clinical Governance will support the Head of Safeguarding & Quality,
Director of Health and key stakeholders across the organisation in leading the development,
delivery, and refinement of several key programmes of work to embed the clinical
governance policy, framework, and practice as part of Children's Service operations to
achieve this ambition.
The role requires overall understanding of Early Years and Integrated Child & Family Health
alongside Mental Health support services, emerging service options, knowledge of demand,
and leading practice.
The role will lead on policy development and implementation, to promote systemic
improvements in clinical governance activity across all integrated health and care services.
The post holder will contribute to the achievement of the CQC quality statements for
services providing regulated activities (Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulations 2014),
including the development, and embedding of assurance mechanisms to test these,
developing, and delivering improvement methodologies to support both CQC compliance
and high-quality care.
This role will support the delivery of the aims and objectives of the health pillars in our new
corporate strategy.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within Clinical or
- Governance within the NHS or equivalent
- Highly developed specialised knowledge and
- skills within leadership, management and
- clinical governance acquired through extensive
- relevant experience
- Highly developed analytical and judgement
- skills
- Ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness
- of clinical practice
- Have experience of or be comfortable working in
- a digital environment, and be open to learning
- new computer systems
Desirable
- Awareness of current professional issues and
- developments across healthcare
- Understand the National and Regional agenda
- for childrens services
- Understanding of commissioning of childrens
- services
- Understanding of the broader NHS landscape
- and current reforms e.g. Long-Term Plan and
- ICS/ICB developments
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Understanding of the broader NHS landscape
- and current reforms e.g. Long-Term Plan and
- ICS/ICB developments
- Able to operate effectively across organisational
- boundaries
- Flexible and able to respond to changing
- priorities
- Effective interpersonal, motivational, and
- influencing skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- with the ability to develop strong working
- relationships at all levels
- Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills
Desirable
- Awareness of current professional issues and
- developments across healthcare
- Understand the National and Regional agenda
- for childrens services
- Understanding of commissioning of childrens
- services
- Educated to Masters degree level as
- demonstrated by academic qualification
- Leadership or management qualification or
- equivalent recent experience in a leadership
- position
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Registration (current), NMC, HCPC
- or other AHP, minimum 5 years experience.
Desirable
- Leadership or management qualification or
- equivalent recent experience in a leadership
- position.
- Leadership or management qualification or
- equivalent recent experience in a leadership
- position
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within Clinical or
- Governance within the NHS or equivalent
- Highly developed specialised knowledge and
- skills within leadership, management and
- clinical governance acquired through extensive
- relevant experience
- Highly developed analytical and judgement
- skills
- Ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness
- of clinical practice
- Have experience of or be comfortable working in
- a digital environment, and be open to learning
- new computer systems
Desirable
- Awareness of current professional issues and
- developments across healthcare
- Understand the National and Regional agenda
- for childrens services
- Understanding of commissioning of childrens
- services
- Understanding of the broader NHS landscape
- and current reforms e.g. Long-Term Plan and
- ICS/ICB developments
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Understanding of the broader NHS landscape
- and current reforms e.g. Long-Term Plan and
- ICS/ICB developments
- Able to operate effectively across organisational
- boundaries
- Flexible and able to respond to changing
- priorities
- Effective interpersonal, motivational, and
- influencing skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- with the ability to develop strong working
- relationships at all levels
- Strategic thinker with proven leadership skills
Desirable
- Awareness of current professional issues and
- developments across healthcare
- Understand the National and Regional agenda
- for childrens services
- Understanding of commissioning of childrens
- services
- Educated to Masters degree level as
- demonstrated by academic qualification
- Leadership or management qualification or
- equivalent recent experience in a leadership
- position
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Registration (current), NMC, HCPC
- or other AHP, minimum 5 years experience.
Desirable
- Leadership or management qualification or
- equivalent recent experience in a leadership
- position.
- Leadership or management qualification or
- equivalent recent experience in a leadership
- position
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).