Clinical Governance Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

In this role, you are accountable for:

1. In collaboration with the Head of Professional & Clinical Services, developing and implementing effective policies, processes and reporting to meet the requirements of the NHSBSA Clinical Governance framework and any applicable standards, policies, guidance and regulations to ensure robust and effective professional clinical governance that is proportionate and appropriate to NHSBSA and the services it delivers.
2. Designing and delivering professional clinical governance assurance and audit activities to monitor and assure professional clinical governance across internal professional clinical teams and third-party clinical partners and providers demonstrating appropriate budgetary and resourcing considerations in both the design and delivery of the audit and any resulting recommendations.
3. Working with professional clinical teams to develop and implement activities to ensure that appropriate clinical governance activity can be demonstrated across all domains of the NHSBSA Model of Clinical Governance.
4. Managing and co-ordinating all aspects of Clinical Governance across NHSBSA, ensuring integration of Clinical Governance and the clinical governance framework with the overarching corporate governance and risk management frameworks in NHSBSA.
5. Building a strong framework of assurance and reporting for the organisation providing visibility and assurance of clinical governance in NHSBSA and across our third party clinical partners and suppliers to the Leadership Team, the Audit & Risk Committee and Board.
6. Providing expert clinical governance advice and guidance about current clinical governance good practice, quality, safety and service development to internal and external stakeholders ensuring that learning and change occurs.
7. Keeping up to date with Professional & Clinical Governance requirements and evidence, ensuring NHSBSA remains up-to-date in its approach.
8. Developing and overseeing a quality assurance and audit programme across the internal clinical teams in NHSBSA.
9. Working with Commercial colleagues, developing a programme of professional clinical governance audit, assurance and reporting across NHSBSAs third party clinical partners and suppliers and using outputs from these clinical governance assurance activities to inform third party contract service provision reviews.
10. Developing and delivering a programme of training and education to promote understanding and implementation of Clinical Governance in NHSBSA. Working with the Clinical Safety and Risk Management Lead ensuring this includes clinical risk management and patient safety.
11. Chairing clinical governance meetings as required.
12. In collaboration with the Clinical Safety and Risk Management Lead, participating in due diligence exercises as required and developing and co-ordinating the Clinical Risk Register.
13. Supporting the Caldicott Guardian Group and its functions including designing activities and engagement to promote understanding of the group and Caldicott principles across the wider organisation through training and communications.
14. Working across the organisation, building strong professional working relationships with key areas of the business and internal stakeholders including Primary Care Services, Commercial and Governance and Risk teams.
15. Building effective professional relationships and networks with external stakeholders to ensure appropriate development of clinical governance in NHSBSA and alignment with the wider health and care system, including joining external clinical governance meetings and networks. Also, representing NHSBSA to external stakeholders and taking opportunities to enhance the profile and promote the reputation of the NHSBSA and its services.
16. As a key member of the directorate and wider business play an active and collaborative role in the effective management and achievement of the goals of the NHSBSA, recognising the significant impact that the NHSBSAs activities have on many people and services within the NHS.
17. Maintaining clinical professional registration, knowledge and expertise as appropriate for your role.

Proposed Interview Dates: 3 November and 7 November 2023

Person Specification

Personal Qualities, Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• An experienced clinical governance professional with the enthusiasm, expertise and confidence to develop and drive clinical governance in a complex organisation.
• A highly effective communicator who is credible and persuasive, commanding the confidence of senior stakeholders, building trust and inspiring others, using their knowledge and expertise to deliver an effective message.
• Professionally courageous with the confidence and authority to articulate, challenge, explain and justify decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Organised and resilient in the face of pressure resulting from competing demands and priorities.
• Creative and innovative, driving involvement and engagement from others, to establish and embed clinical governance best practice and supporting activities and assurance to support effective clinical governance and assurance across the organisation and its partners.
• Collaborative, creating and maintaining relationships and networks both internally and across the health and care system that will help drive the establishment of a robust clinical governance approach in NHSBSA.
• Highly developed analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of interpreting and evaluating complex, mufti-faceted information, with the ability to summarise complex information in a clear and digestible way.

Specialist Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance in the NHS and the underpinning policies, processes and regulations and the requirements for delivery of robust governance and assurance.
• Demonstrable up to date knowledge and expertise in clinical governance best practice and in quality, safety and service development.

Desirable

• Wider knowledge of risk management, governance and assurance approaches.
• Knowledge and understanding of Caldicott Guardian principles and practice.
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical risk management and patient safety generally and clinical safety as it applies to Health IT systems

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in clinical governance and risk management and the establishment and implementation of robust clinical governance and assurance frameworks.
• Highly experienced in designing and delivering activities required to support robust clinical governance and assurance, including the development of supporting policies and processes.
• Experienced in developing and delivering assurance reporting.
• Degree or equivalent qualification/ in depth experience and knowledge to master's equivalent experience

Desirable

• Experienced leader/manager of a clinical governance function
• Experience of establishing a new clinical governance and assurance framework and function with the development of associated policies, processes and activities
• Experience of assuring the clinical governance of third-party clinical providers

Qualifications

Essential

• A UK registered health care practitioner with degree or equivalent qualification
• Clinical governance and risk management knowledge acquired through training to master's level or experience and in-house training to masters level equivalent

Desirable

• Post graduate qualification and/or advanced degree
• Management/ Leadership qualification
• Project management qualification

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Business Services Authority

Address

Flexible NHSBSA office location / Hybrid working

Flexible NHSBSA office location / Hybrid working

NE15 8NY

Employer's website

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/what-we-do/work-us (Opens in a new tab)