Band 8A-Divisional Governance Manager – cross site

Band 8A-Divisional Governance Manager – cross site working

East Sussex Healthcare Trust is an Integrated Acute, Medical and Community organisation, our focus is the care of our patients and our colleagues across our medical, acute, community and intermediate care services. We are an exciting, fast paced division that has exciting opportunities for service delivery / change and quality improvement, with patient and staff safety being our priority.

We are looking for a Governance Manager within the Medicine & Urgent Care division to cover all the clinical units across both sites.

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate experience in delivering outstanding clinical services, has a proven track record on delivering quality improvements in nursing and integrated teams and be passionate about working as a collaborative leader within the organisation and within the wider system.

In return we will offer you excellent managerial support and commitment to your personal professional development. We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust - being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful - and behave in a way that reflects these.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for leading the Medical &Urgent Care quality and clinical governance programme.

Have a proven track record of delivering quality improvements in nursing care.

Develop relationships with key stakeholders across Sussex.

Support the implementation of the clinical governance framework.

Support the development of policies and procedures and ensure policies are embedded in practice.

Support practices with delivery of their quality action plans.

Support improvement planning and preparation for external inspections.

To gather, analyse and interpret information in order to provide reports in respect of key quality indicators. To seek assurance that standards are being achieved or that actions are completed where issues are highlighted.

To facilitate the investigation of serious incidents, internal investigations and complaints in accordance with Trust policies and procedures and ensure that lessons are learned are implemented and shared within the Division and across the organisation.

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.

There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.

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If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.

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