Divisional Governance Manager

Job summary

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, every time.

To help our patients truly experience excellence in care we are investing in the governance support and leadership in our diverse division.

Reporting to the Lead for Divisional Governance, the successful post holder willsupport the delivery of the divisional risk, quality and safety agenda ensuring divisional compliance with regulatory body standards and outcomes.

You will bebe directly responsible for a portfolio of services and work withkey clinical and non-clinical staff to maintain the profile of governance/risk, ensuring that related strategies are aligned with the culture of the Trust.

You will workclosely with the corporate teams ensuring the analysis and presentation of governance/risk management information and trend data to support action and learning andcoordinate divisional responses to external bodies e.g. NICE/FOI/alerts and the submission of evidence as required for accreditation purposes.

If you are a whizz with data, have an enquiring mind and have a personality to work with others then we look forward to your application.

Main duties of the job

• To support the delivery of the divisional risk, quality and safety agenda ensuring divisional compliance with CQC outcomes
• To be responsible for the assessment of clinical and non-clinical risk within the division, including Adverse Incidents, Serious Incident, GP Quality Alerts and Complaints
• To ensure there is an integrated approach to all aspects of risk management, with robust systems to support this
• To liaise with key clinical and non-clinical staff to maintain the profile of governance/risk, ensuring that related strategies are embedded within the culture of the division
• To work closely with the corporate teams ensuring the analysis and presentation of governance/risk management information and trend data to support action and learning
• To coordinate divisional responses to external bodies e.g. NICE/FOI/alerts and the submission of evidence as required for accreditation purposes

About us

The postholder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the trust vision of:

A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflect these.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role. The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take.