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 (NMC, HCPC or AHP, minimum 5 years' experience) with current strategic leadership experience in clinical and 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 steer the creation, delivery, implementation and ongoing development of the clinical governance policy, framework, and practice as part of Children's Service operations.  

You will be a highly motivated solution-focused leader with experience of policy writing, development, planning and implementation. This dynamic and influential role will design and promote systemic improvements in clinical governance and quality across all integrated health and care services at Barnardo's.  

 The post holder will:   

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

• Implement strategic leadership for clinical governance and quality that will identify assurance, compliance and monitoring, alongside improvement plans that will support operational management.  

• Provide expert knowledge for the Directorship, in the development and delivery of strategies pertaining to clinical governance, risk management and quality improvement.  

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

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

• Use previous expertise and knowledge to develop assurance systems that identify evidence-based and high-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 commissioning and growth of 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 all staff, providing guidance, developing expertise and supporting 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 ensure robust clinical governance, facilitating changes in practice and 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 Tuesday 7th January if they have been shortlisted.  

Interviews will be face to face on Tuesday 14th January at Lynton House 7-12 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9LT – Nearest train/tube stations – Euston (Northern and Victoria lines) and Euston Square (Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan and Circle lines).

Please note Barnardo's do not offer sponsorship for this role.

Please note that 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. 

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. 

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay. 

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application. 

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer