# Corporate Lead of Patient Safety and Compliance > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/corporate-lead-of-patient-safety-and-compliance/ab8f2d87-a4a3-42c5-bf87-014b20da6900 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/corporate-lead-of-patient-safety-and-compliance/ab8f2d87-a4a3-42c5-bf87-014b20da6900.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust - **Town:** Maidstone - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 per annum - **Contract type:** 12 months (12-month secondment) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-21T08:03:38.504Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Maidstone/Kent_Medway_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Corporate_Lead_Patient_Safety_Compliance/Corporate_Lead_Patient_Safety_Compliance-v8123465 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8123465?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Corporate Lead for Patient Safety and Compliance is a senior leadership role responsible for driving the Trust’s patient safety, quality governance, and compliance agenda. Working across the organisation, the post holder will provide expert leadership on patient safety systems and risk management, ensuring compliance with national policies and frameworks, including the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). You will lead the identification and translation of learning from incidents, complaints, patient experience, and quality data into meaningful improvement programmes that strengthen patient safety, promote transparency, and embed a culture of continuous learning. The role also has oversight of incident reporting and investigation processes, Duty of Candour compliance, and the effective triangulation of quality and patient experience data to support informed decision-making and service improvement. Reporting to the Deputy Chief Nurse, you will play a key role in leading the Trust’s programme of improvement for Quality and Professional Standards, ensuring services consistently meet CQC fundamental standards, safeguarding requirements, Trust values, and strategic objectives. You will manage specialist teams and work collaboratively with Heads of Nursing, governance leads, matrons, service managers, and corporate support teams to deliver high-quality, safe, and effective care. ### Main duties of the job The Corporate Lead for Patient Safety and Compliance will provide strategic and operational leadership for patient safety, quality governance, and regulatory compliance across the Trust. Working closely with clinical and corporate teams, the post holder will lead the delivery of the patient safety agenda, ensuring learning from incidents, complaints, and quality reviews is embedded into practice to improve patient outcomes, experience, and safety. This influential leadership role will support Directorates in managing complex patient safety and compliance issues, drive the use of quality data and insights to inform improvement, and foster strong engagement with service users, carers, and staff. Working alongside the Deputy Chief Nurse and senior leaders, the successful candidate will champion a culture of continuous improvement, support workforce development, and ensure services consistently meet national standards and regulatory requirements. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010). We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one. Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Demonstrates the energy and ability to manage the complexity of tasks that supports the achievement of the organisation’s objectives - Significant experience at a senior level in a mental health trust leading practice - Significant experience in leading change in clinical environments. - Evidenced experience of leading on a quality improvement project that led to sustained change in outcomes for service users and carers. - Experience of success in delivering change and performance with and through teams. - Experience of analysing highly complex problems and having developed practical and workable solutions to address them at pace. ### Analytical Skills **Essential** - Developed analytical skills with the ability to present complex information and analysis in accessible formats - Excellent problem-solving skills, with ability to negotiate, influence and use diplomacy skills to obtain effective outcomes ### Communication Skills **Essential** - Excellent communication skills at all levels, written, oral and personal presentation - Experience of delivering presentations and chairing meetings - Compassionate and inclusive leadership - Able to motivate and enthuse staff at all levels, improve confidence and contain anxiety in particular crisis situations ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Senior leadership experience within a complex provider NHS service - Up to date and specialist knowledge and experience across the full range of activities and areas to be undertaken by the post holder including PSIRF, CQC and clinical governance frameworks. - Expert knowledge of current issues facing professions and developments including an appreciation of current NHS policy and priorities, particularly in relation to mental health. - Ability to develop and implement policy and understand impact - Knowledge of Quality Improvement methodologies and a commitment to develop this as necessary. - Expert knowledge of Quality and patient safety in mental health care and the mechanisms used for assurance. ### Training, Qualifications and Registration **Essential** - Professional Registration- Nursing, AHP, Social worker, medical - Masters/higher degree in healthcare or a related subject. **Desirable** - NHS leadership development - Analytical - Performance management experience - Patient Safety Specialist Training ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 623.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2394) - [trust name change (pdf, 813.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2991) - [corporate lead for patient safety and compliance - job description & person spec (final) (pdf, 176.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10420249) ## 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.