Quality and Risk Advisor

Quality & Risk Advisor

Are you passionate about patient safety, quality improvement and creating a culture of continuous learning? We're looking for an experienced Quality & Risk Advisor to strengthen our quality, governance and risk management frameworks.

Working closely with senior leaders and supporting our Regional Heads of Q&R, you will drive the Quality & Risk programme, providing oversight and daily management of incidents, complaints, risk management and policy development. You will ensure services remain safe, compliant and continuously improving, supporting regulatory and accreditation standards such as CQC and BS 70000.

• Support and guide the management of Risk across the business: risk assessment, risk registers, incident reporting, investigations and lessons learned.
• Manage Risk & Incident systems administration (Datix) to promote quality and patient safety.
• Analyse themes around risks and incidents to aid reporting and highlight improvement opportunities.
• Deliver education and training on Quality and Risk issues that impact the business.
• Tackle Level One complaints, support escalation/closure and drive lessons learned.
• Assist the Heads of Quality & Risk in delivering strategy aligned with organisational requirements.
• Administer policy and procedures to ensure compliance and cascade national guidance to all staff.
• Represent Alliance Medical at governance committee meetings.
• Attend regional, quality and risk, corporate and external stakeholder/site meetings.

Essential:

• Clinical Practitioner or equivalent in a clinical setting with relevant experience.
• Knowledge of quality and risk standards applied to a healthcare organisation.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements (IRMER, CQC, QSI, BS 70000).
• Evidence of innovation in clinical practice.
• Comfortable operating across multiple sites over a large geographical area.
• Ongoing professional development.
• Self‑directed, motivated and capable of generating ideas.
• Strong IT skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• UK driving licence and willingness to travel extensively.

Desirable:

• Patient Safety Course.
• PSIRF incident investigation course.
• IOSH Managing Safely Course.
• Datix certification.
• Experience with external assessment/inspections.
• Clinical audit programmes development.
• Regulatory assessment/inspection participation.
• Research and publication experience.

Experience as a current Clinical Practitioner; completed PSIRF incident investigation course.

Alliance Medical Ltd

The Woods Opus Business Park, Haywood Road