Job overview
Deputy Governance & Quality Manager
Band 7
37.5 hours
Fixed term - 12 months
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for the clinical governance management for Urgent Care (Emergency Medicine and Acute and Frailty). This will include the delegated responsibility from the Governance & Quality Manager for the urgent care risk register, the patient safety incident investigation processes within urgent care, meeting papers production and ownership of escalation as required to the Divisional triumvirate and / or the Deputy Director of Quality Governance. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the Governance & Quality Manager is fully aware of urgent care’s governance. · Responsible for the monitoring of the Datix incident reporting system, approving incident reports and initiating / undertaking investigations as and where necessary and to the level required by the severity of the incident, escalating to the Governance & Quality Manager as required. · Responsible for leading patient safety incident investigations. This will entail highlighting cases for investigation, mini-initial analysis reports (rapid reviews), writing timelines, collating staff statements and conducting interviews and observation exercises as required and writing patient safety incident investigation reports. The investigation process could also include attending H.M. Coroner’s court to give evidence at an inquest into a patient’s death.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focusses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.
The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Governance, Risk Management and the NHS quality agenda
- Understanding of national patient safety strategy and context
- Use of IT packages such as Excel, patient administration systems, the internet and the Trust’s intranet.
- Ability to apply basic principles of Governance & Risk Management at a practical level.
- Investigating tools.
Desirable
- Knowledge of medical terminology relevant to the role
- Previous relevant NHS experience
- Use of the Datix reporting system or similar system.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of investigating incidents including creating timelines and supporting fact finding / root cause analysis meetings
- Experience of working to tight deadlines, setting priorities and dealing with a varied workload.
- Experience of writing investigation reports
- Ability to work on own initiative and make independent decisions.
Desirable
- Line management or supervision of staff
- Leading patient safety investigations.
- Experience of reviewing and improving systems within an NHS organisation.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent communication skills (written, typed and verbal).
- Computer literate with excellent keyboard skills
- Ability to plan and organise own workload in response to demand
- Ability to deal with all disciplines of staff and challenge where necessary.
- Negotiation and influencing skills.
- Commitment to achieving change.
- Ability to research and retrieve information.
- Methodical, organised, attention to detail.
- Ability to respond in a rapidly changing and emotionally challenging environment whilst maintaining a good emotional balance.
Desirable
- Highly developed analytical skills.
- Production of monitoring reports.
Education & qualification
Essential
- Degree level qualification or equivalent knowledge & skills.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- Clinical background with Registration to a Professional Body.
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This advert is for Deputy Governance & Quality Manager with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust in Stockport, North West, England. It is listed as a Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed term / secondment to July 2027). The application deadline is 17 Jul 2026.
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