Strategic Lead for Clinical & Quality Governance

Strategic Lead for Clinical & Quality Governance (19965)

Are you driven by a passion to make a difference to young people's lives? Barnardo's are looking for a registered healthcare professional to join our team as Strategic Lead for Clinical & Quality Governance. 

Barnardo's ambition is to be a quality provider of integrated health and social care support contracts, increasing the reach of health and wellbeing services to reduce health inequalities in the communities we work in. 

We're looking for a Clinical Quality and Governance Lead to support the Head of Safeguarding & Quality, in leading the development, delivery, and refinement of the clinical governance policy, framework, and practice as part of Children's Service operations. 

The role will lead on policy development, implementation. To promote systemic improvements in clinical governance across all integrated health and care services.  

The post holder will be required to:  

• Lead the creation, design, delivery, and evaluation of a new Clinical Governance Framework. 

• Provide strategic leadership for clinical governance and quality, identifying and implementing assurance and compliance monitoring and improvement plans, alongside operational management. 

• Support the Directorship in the development and delivery of strategies pertaining to clinical governance, risk management and quality improvement. 

• Lead the clinical governance agenda and develop of robust systems in clinical governance and quality, underpinning safe clinical practice and fostering multidisciplinary working across the organisation. 

• Lead on clinical governance to support performance reporting to commissioners. 

• Supporting the organisation to meet the regulatory requirements of external standards and inspections.  

• Support the development of assurance systems that identify evidence-based, and quality practice is in place throughout the organisation. 

• Work with Children's Services and BDU (Business Development Unit) to identify all clinical governance requirements to enable commission and grow digital and new health and support services. 

• Develop an integrated approach to ensure clinical governance. Quality and compliance meet commissioner expectations and improve clinical quality focussed outcomes. 

• Be a subject expert for knowledge for all staff, providing guidance, developing expertise support leadership in relation to clinical governance.  

• Engage autonomously and collaboratively with Senior Management Teams to develop and ensure implementation of changes as required, ensuring delivery of key strategic and operational objectives.  

• Work with stakeholders across the country to mitigate risks and assure robust clinical governance, facilitating changes in practice, driving tangible outcome improvements for Children and Young People. 

You'll have: 

Education/Knowledge 

• Professional NMC, HCPC or other AHP registration (current), with a minimum of 5 years' experience 

• Leadership or management qualification or equivalent recent experience in a leadership position 

• Educated to Masters level (desirable) 

Skills/Experience 

• Overall understanding of Early Years and Integrated Child & Family Health alongside Mental Health support services, emerging service options, knowledge of demand, and leading practice 

• Experience of working within Clinical Governance within the NHS or equivalent 

• Understanding of the broader NHS landscape and current reforms e.g. Long-Term Plan and ICS/ICB developments 

• Ability to work from and travel to a variety of work locations as required. 

At Barnardo's we all play our part. We are a large, diverse family with a variety of skills working together to help children across the UK. Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion is central to achieving our vision of a world in which no child is turned away. 

 Candidates will be notified by Monday 11th November if they have been shortlist.

 Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.