Quality Governance Lead

The postholder will lead divisional governance and patient safety functions, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Patient Safety Leadership:Oversee PSIRF implementation, ensuring timely and high-quality learning responses for serious harm incidents.
• Governance Assurance:Maintain robust systems for triangulating incidents, complaints, mortality reviews, and outcomes to identify systemic risks and prevent repeat harm.
• Regulatory Compliance:Ensure adherence to CQC standards and Duty of Candour obligations, safeguarding patient engagement and transparency.
• Risk Management:Provide senior clinical judgment and assurance to mitigate patient safety risks and uphold organisational resilience.
• Stakeholder Engagement:Collaborate with Trust-level teams while maintaining divisional ownership of safety and governance processes.
• Capacity Building:Support the development of a strong safety culture within the division through leadership, education, and continuous improvement initiatives.

The
Quality, Safety & Governance Lead - Medicine Division (Band 8a) is a senior clinical leadership role at Newham Hospital, responsible for ensuring robust governance, patient safety, and compliance within the Medicine Division. The position is critical to the Trust's functionality and is embedded within the divisional workforce plan. It requires professional registration (NMC/HCPC), senior clinical credibility, and expertise in PSIRF (Patient Safety Incident Response Framework), learning responses, and governance assurance.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world‑class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high‑performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm‑free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time.

It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

• o Registered Nurse with full and current UK NMC registration / Current AHP with UK HCPC registration o Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional experience o Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
• o Working towards or willingness to undertake Master's level study o Leadership, management or quality improvement training o Training or development in patient safety, human factors or improvement science

• o Experience in a senior nursing role within acute hospital services o Experience contributing to quality, safety or governance activity at ward, service or divisional level o Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams o Experience supporting learning from incidents, complaints or patient feedback
• o Experience leading improvement, safety or governance work beyond own ward or service o Exposure to PSIRF, learning response models or incident investigation o Experience supporting or deputising at Matron or senior leadership level

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