The post holder will be a key member of the Clinical Governance Directorate (part of the wider Joint Chief Medical Officers' Directorate) and Trust wide senior management team, with specific responsibility for deputising for the Director of Clinical Governance across aspects of the role relating to quality governance, quality assurance, and the management of risk.
To work collaboratively with the Associate Director of Clinical Governance (Clinical Effectiveness) and the Associate Director of Clinical Governance (Patient Safety & complaints) to ensure seamless provision of services from within the Directorate of Clinical Governance.
Responsible for strategic development & leadership of implementation of strategies with specific focus on quality governance & risk management. Working collaboratively with key stakeholders, including the Board of Directors, Trust Secretary, and Trust’s Clinical leadership, leading ongoing development of high quality, integrated & effective governance structures & teams across Corporate & Clinical Groups supporting deployment of the Trust’s strategy ‘Where Excellence Meets Compassion’. You will take a leadership role ensuring that robust, proportionate & responsive clinical governance structures are embedded throughout the Trust.
With direct line management responsibilities for the central Risk & Incident team & for Clinical Governance teams embedded across six Clinical Groups, you will have a diverse and varied portfolio.
You will provide highly specialist leadership across risk management & quality governance & will provide expert compliance & regulatory advice as required across the Trust, as well as being an expert resource on national issues and local interpretation of national and local regulatory policy, guidance and best practice.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Diversity Matters: MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.
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