Associate Director of Clinical Governance & Effectiveness

Job overview

Are you an experienced healthcare leader passionate about clinical governance, evidence-based practice and improving the quality of care?

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director of Clinical Governance & Effectiveness to join the senior Nursing Directorate leadership team at North London NHS Foundation Trust.

We are seeking an exceptional senior healthcare leader to join North London NHS Foundation Trust. This newly created Band 8c role provides a unique opportunity to shape our Trust-wide approach to clinical governance, clinical audit & effectiveness, quality intelligence and regulatory assurance, ensuring that evidence and learning are translated into measurable improvements in the quality of care.

Reporting to the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, this newly created Trust-wide role will provide strategic leadership for clinical governance, clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, quality intelligence and regulatory assurance.

You will lead the development and delivery of our clinical governance and clinical effectiveness arrangements, ensuring that intelligence from clinical audit, incidents, complaints, patient experience, safeguarding, mortality, regulatory activity and other sources is brought together to identify emerging themes, risks and opportunities for improvement.

Main duties of the job

The role

Working with clinical, operational and corporate leads, you will:

• Lead the Trust's clinical governance and clinical effectiveness framework.
• Strengthen the triangulation of quality intelligence to support effective assurance, learning and improvement.
• Provide leadership for regulatory compliance and readiness, including CQC comprehensive assessment and reviews.
• Lead delivery of the Trust's Culture of Learning Framework on behalf of the DCNO, ensuring learning is translated into sustainable improvement.
• Provide clear, evidence-based quality and governance assurance to senior leaders, Executive committees and the Board

About you

You will be a registered healthcare professional with significant senior leadership experience in the NHS or a comparable healthcare setting.

You will bring substantial experience of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness, quality assurance and regulatory compliance, together with the ability to interpret complex quality information and translate it into clear priorities and action.

We are particularly looking for a leader who is credible, collaborative, curious and improvement-focused, with the confidence to provide constructive challenge, influence at senior level and build strong relationships across professional and organisational boundaries.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Why join us?

This is an excellent opportunity to shape a newly created role and influence how we use governance, evidence and quality intelligence to improve care across North London NHS Foundation Trust.

If you are passionate about moving clinical governance beyond compliance and using evidence, learning and insight to make a measurable difference to patient care, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Join us and help ensure that evidence drives improvement, learning leads to change, and our governance arrangements support consistently high-quality care.

We reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised in the event that we receive a high volume of applications

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.