Governance Manager (Primary Care)

Job overview

Are you an experienced governance professional passionate about quality, patient safety and continuous improvement?

Northumbria Primary Care is seeking an exceptional Governance Manager to lead and strengthen our governance, quality assurance, patient safety, risk management and compliance arrangements across our growing organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategic and operational governance, support high-quality patient care, and drive a culture of learning and improvement.

Main duties of the job

As Governance Manager, you will play a key leadership role in ensuring Northumbria Primary Care maintains the highest standards of governance and regulatory compliance. Working closely with senior leaders, practice teams and external partners, you will lead on governance systems, risk management, quality improvement programmes and Care Quality Commission (CQC) readiness activities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with significant governance experience and a strong understanding of NHS quality and risk management frameworks.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading governance, quality, patient safety and compliance programmes across NPC.
• Managing the organisational risk register and governance work programme.
• Supporting CQC assessments, inspections and ongoing regulatory compliance.
• Overseeing incident, complaint, audit and assurance processes.
• Producing high-quality reports and assurance information for senior management and Board-level meetings.
• Leading quality improvement initiatives and embedding learning from incidents, complaints and patient feedback.
• Providing expert advice on governance, risk management and patient safety.
• Supporting and developing a positive culture of continuous improvement through training, coaching and leadershi

Applicant requirements

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.