Quality, Safety & Governance Lead– Medicine Division
The postholder will lead divisional governance and patient safety functions, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements. Key responsibilities include:
- Patient Safety Leadership: Oversee PSIRF implementation, ensuring timely and high-quality learning responses for serious harm incidents.
- Governance Assurance: Maintain robust systems for triangulating incidents, complaints, mortality reviews, and outcomes to identify systemic risks and prevent repeat harm.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure adherence to CQC standards and Duty of Candour obligations, safeguarding patient engagement and transparency.
- Risk Management: Provide senior clinical judgment and assurance to mitigate patient safety risks and uphold organisational resilience.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with Trust-level teams while maintaining divisional ownership of safety and governance processes.
- Capacity Building: Support the development of a strong safety culture within the division through leadership, education, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Main duties of the job
Quality, Safety & Governance Lead – Medicine Division (Band 8a) is a senior clinical leadership role at Newham Hospital, responsible for ensuring robust governance, patient safety, and compliance within the Medicine Division. The position is critical to the Trust’s functionality and is embedded within the divisional workforce plan. It requires professional registration (NMC/HCPC), senior clinical credibility, and expertise in PSIRF (Patient Safety Incident Response Framework), learning responses, and governance assurance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional Experience
- Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
- Registered Nurse with full and current UK NMC registration / Current AHP with UK HCPC registration
- Working towards or willingness to undertake Master’s level study
- Leadership, management or quality improvement training
- Training or development in patient safety, human factors or improvement science
Other
- Commitment to the Trust’s WeCare values and compassionate leadership
- Ability to work effectively in a complex, pressured environment
- Resilience, curiosity and a learning- focused mindset
- Motivation to develop as a senior nursing leader
- Interest in patient safety innovation, learning systems or service transformation
Skills
- Ability to analyse and use quality, safety and patient experience information to support improvement
- Clear and confident communication skills, written and verbalAbility to influence, support and appropriately challenge colleagues
- Ability to lead change and support teams through improvement
- Experience presenting information to senior colleagues or governance forums
- Coaching, facilitation or mentoring skills
- Ability to translate learning and assurance into practical ward-level improvement
Knowledge
- Understanding of clinical governance, patient safety and risk management principles
- Awareness of national patient safety priorities and quality frameworks
- Understanding of the importance of learning, openness and Duty of Candour
- Developing knowledge of PSIRF, quality improvement methodologies and systems thinking
- Awareness of regulatory and assurance processes (e.g. CQC)
- Understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion in healthcare improvement
Experience
- Experience in a senior nursing role within acute hospital services
- Experience contributing to quality, safety or governance activity at ward, service or divisional level
- Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams
- Experience supporting learning from incidents, complaints or patient feedback
- Experience leading improvement, safety or governance work beyond own ward or service
- Exposure to PSIRF, learning response models or incident investigation
- Experience supporting or deputising at Matron or senior leadership level
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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