Job Summary
The Childrens Trust exists to support children and their families with acquired brain injuries and neurodisabilities. We are a complex organisation that constantly thrives to deliver the best outcomes for the children and young people we serve.
The Head of Clinical Governance, Safety, Clinical Risk Management, and Quality will lead and enhance the organisations commitment to delivering high-quality, safe care for children. This role is pivotal in overseeing clinical governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, managing clinical risks, and implementing quality improvement initiatives.
The post holder will work collaboratively across teams to promote a culture of safety and continuous improvement, aligning with The Childrens Trusts strategic objectives. Whilst the post directly reports to the Director of Nursing and Quality, the remit of the role spans the whole organisation and works across all clinical directorates.
Main duties of the job
Role Requirements
* Develop and maintain an effective clinical governance framework that supports safe and high-quality care.
* Facilitate regular clinical governance meetings to discuss performance, incidents, and quality improvement initiatives.
* Ensure that clinical pathways and practices are aligned with best practice guidelines and evidence-based standards.
Interview Date: To be confirmed
About Us
The Childrens Trust is the UKs leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.
Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.
Staff Benefits
The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including, adoption pay, time off for fertility treatment, enhanced paternity leave, paid carers leave, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms, time off for gender reassignment.
We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.
Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Salary
Depending on experience £67,950 - £78,028 pa (dependent on experience and incl of OLW)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
B0474-25-0046
Job locations
The Childrens Trust
Tadworth Court
Tadworth
Surrey
KT20 5RU
Job Description
Responsibilities
* Clinical Governance
* Patient Safety
* Clinical Risk Management
* Quality Improvement
* Regulatory Compliance
* Clinical Audit
* Incident Management
* Clinical Education
* Professional Standards
* Policies and Procedures
* Medical Records
* Medicines Management
* Safeguarding
* Complaints and Patient Experience
* Infection Prevention and Control
* General
* Professionalism
* Health and Safety
* Wellbeing and Emotional Resilience
Person Specification
Experience Essential
* Evidence of significant operational leadership experience at AfC band 8b equivalent or above.
* Experience working with children with learning disability.
* Experience of working within quality and clinical governance dedicated roles.
* Experience within training/education/practice-based education and presenting effectively to a variety of audiences.
* Experience managing significant budgets.
* Experience writing business cases for service proposals.
* Experience of effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders.
* Management of change.
Skills & Abilities Essential
* Dynamic, passionate, open, participative, and supportive leadership style.
* Strong influencing skills.
* Ability to develop and deliver innovative training programmes.
* Clinically credible in own area of practice.
* Able to deliver a multi-faceted service balancing the capacity of each area to meet service needs and priorities.
* Effective communicator.
Qualifications Essential
* Active NMC registration.
* Educated to masters degree level in a relevant area (or relevant experience), and / or with relevant post graduate teaching or leadership qualifications.
Knowledge Essential
* Strong understanding of:
* Health care educational framework and of developing training strategies.
* Clinical and operational audit data and analysis/presentation methodology.
* Multidisciplinary team working.
* Care of children with learning disabilities
* Safeguarding.
* Quality improvement programmes and methodologies.
Personal Qualities Essential
* Commitment to the vision and values of The Childrens Trust.
* Flexible and can do attitude to competing commitments in workload.
* Highly motivated and reliable.
* Ability to cope working in a demanding environment.
* Commitment to maintaining personal wellbeing and the wellbeing of colleagues.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
The Children's Trust
Address
The Childrens Trust
Tadworth Court
Tadworth
Surrey
KT20 5RU
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