Quality and Governance Lead

Job overview

Do you have experience in service improvement?

Are you have strong analytical skills?

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Quality and Governance Lead to play a key role in ensuring the highest standards of clinical quality and patient safety across our Mental Health Directorates.

As an integral member of the directorates' senior team, you will provide expert guidance on quality governance, working closely with the Trust’s corporate quality and governance teams. You will lead the development and implementation of robust clinical governance arrangements, ensuring that incidents, complaints, and patient feedback are effectively reported, reviewed, and used to drive meaningful learning and improvement.

This is a unique opportunity to make a real impact on the quality of care provided across our Mental Health Directorates. If you have a strong background in clinical governance, a passion for patient safety, and the ability to lead change within a complex healthcare setting, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the development and production of directorate quality and safety reports for Trust-wide and directorate meetings.
• Supporting the Clinical Director, Head of Nursing, and Service Director on patient safety and wider clinical quality issues.
• Overseeing complaints, serious incident investigations, CQC compliance, audits, and NICE guidelines to support service excellence.
• Embedding a culture of learning through quality improvement methodology and supporting the delivery of the Trust-wide clinical governance and patient safety agenda.
• Providing leadership on patient experience and involvement, ensuring service user feedback informs continuous improvement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.