Clinical Governance Lead in England

Location: TBC but maybe required to travel to all services across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) region

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

HCRG Care Group is seeking a highly experienced and credible clinician to take on the pivotal role of Clinical Governance Lead. We are committed to providing high-quality, proactive care and treatment for populations across our community services within the BSW region. This role is key to the provision of challenge and support for evidence-based clinical practice and is designed to ensure safe service delivery and enhanced service user experience across adult and children’s health services.

Key Responsibilities

• Culture of Quality: Working closely with the Quality Improvement Lead, you will promote and actively support a culture of continuous monitoring against identified quality metrics and adherence to best practice standards.
• Evidence-Based Practice: Ensure service managers and clinical teams have the necessary information and learning from national evidence to support safe, evidence-based care.
• Clinical Audit: Lead a robust programme of clinical audit, ensuring results and learning are shared effectively and audit cycles are fully completed.
• Governance Support: Utilise your enhanced clinical skills and demonstrable experience of governance processes to support senior clinical leaders in their understanding and practice of robust clinical governance.

Candidate Profile

The successful post-holder will be a highly experienced and credible clinician with a demonstrable understanding of governance processes, requirements, and strategies within healthcare. You will possess enhanced clinical skills and a passion for driving quality improvement and patient safety across our services.

Application will be by CV with a supporting statement outlining suitability for the role.

Benefits

• £53,755 with AfC Terms and conditions and NHS Pension
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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