# Associate Director of Clinical Governance & Effectiveness > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-director-of-clinical-governance-and-effectiveness/332f513f-9ad7-43ee-9ea7-90da88ee2ab7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-director-of-clinical-governance-and-effectiveness/332f513f-9ad7-43ee-9ea7-90da88ee2ab7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St Pancras Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Quality and governance manager - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £85,641 - £97,746 Per annum including HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-27T10:51:00.292Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/North_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Associate_Director/Associate_Director-v8367566 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8367566?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Executive and Board-level assurance **Essential** - Significant experience of producing and presenting high-quality governance, quality and assurance reports to Executive Directors, Board Committees and/or Trust Boards, with the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information clearly and provide credible professional advice and challenge. ### Senior strategic leadership experience **Essential** - Significant senior leadership experience within the NHS or a comparable healthcare provider, with evidence of successfully leading complex Trust-wide or organisation-wide quality, governance, assurance or improvement programmes and influencing senior clinical and operational leaders. ### Regulatory assurance and CQC experience **Essential** - Significant experience of regulatory compliance and assurance, including direct experience of CQC inspections, reviews or regulatory engagement, with a strong understanding of CQC requirements and the wider NHS quality and regulatory environment. ### Quality intelligence, triangulation and risk **Essential** - Demonstrable experience of analysing and triangulating complex quality intelligence from multiple sources to identify themes, emerging risks and priorities, and translating findings into effective assurance, learning and improvement. ### Clinical governance and clinical effectiveness **Essential** - Substantial experience of leading clinical governance and clinical effectiveness systems, including clinical audit, quality assurance and the use of evidence and standards to drive measurable improvement in care. ### Professional qualification and senior-level expertise **Essential** - Registered healthcare professional with current UK professional registration and a Master's degree or equivalent senior-level experience, with evidence of continued professional development relevant to quality, governance, clinical effectiveness or healthcare leadership. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 246.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10694804) - [functional requirements (pdf, 332.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10694805) - [a comprehensive guide for candidates (pdf, 544.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2959) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.