Divisional Governance Lead

Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping patient safety and quality across our Division. This highly influential leadership position provides strategic oversight of governance systems, ensuring compliance with national standards and Trust policies. You'll lead a dedicated governance team, drive continuous improvement, and embed a culture of safety and learning. Working closely with senior clinical leaders, you'll oversee incident management, lead responses under PSIRF, and ensure lessons learned translate into better care for our patients.

The Divisional Governance Lead is responsible for driving patient safety, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance across the Division. This highly visible role provides strategic and operational governance support, ensuring systems are robust, responsive, and aligned with national standards and Trust policies.

• Key Purpose:
• Provide strategic leadership and oversight of the divisional governance agenda.
• Ensure compliance with Trust policies, NHS frameworks, and national standards.
• Manage the divisional governance team and embed a culture of safety, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee incident profiles and serious incidents, ensuring timely escalation and thematic reviews.
• Lead divisional learning responses under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).
• Drive improvement actions and monitor assurance through audit processes.
• Enable high-quality care through effective risk management, incident response, and compliance.
• Collaborate with senior nursing and medical leaders, clinical teams, and corporate colleagues to embed governance principles.

The postholder acts as a key driver for patient safety and quality, ensuring lessons learned are embedded into practice and that governance systems support safe, effective, and compassionate care delivery.

As part of this role, you will work directly with a team of Governance Managers and Governance Facilitators, all committed to improving standards and closely linking with our clinical teams to ensure governance excellence. Together, this team will champion continuous improvement, robust incident management under PSIRF, risk oversight, and regulatory compliance, including CQC readiness.

If you are passionate about influencing care delivery and shaping governance at the highest level, we would love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Provide oversight of the divisional governance agenda, ensuring compliance with Trust policies, NHS frameworks, and national standards.
• Governance Team Management: Lead and develop the divisional governance team, including recruitment, onboarding, appraisals, and performance management.
• Patient Safety: Oversee incident management and thematic reviews.
• PSIRF Investigations: Lead divisional learning responses under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework, ensuring robust investigations and shared outcomes.
• Risk Management: Maintain and scrutinise the divisional risk register, validate new risks, and escalate significant risks to senior leadership.
• Regulatory Compliance: Act as divisional lead for CQC requirements, maintain inspection readiness, and coordinate responses to regulatory enquiries.