Quality and Risk Advisor

Job summary

Are you passionate about patient safety, quality improvement and creating a culture of continuous learning? We're looking for an experienced Quality & Risk Advisor to play a pivotal role in strengthening our quality, governance and risk management frameworks.

Working closely with senior leaders and supporting our Regional Heads of Q&R, you'll help drive our Quality & Risk programme, providing oversight and daily management of incidents, complaints, risk management and policy development. You'll be at the heart of ensuring our services remain safe, compliant and continuously improving, while supporting adherence to regulatory and accreditation standards, including CQC requirements and BS 70000 accreditation where applicable.

This is a fantastic opportunity to influence organisational quality and safety performance, lead on incident and risk management processes, and maximise the effectiveness of our Datix systems. If you thrive in a role where you can make a measurable difference, champion best practice and help shape the future of healthcare quality, we'd love to hear from you.

Please note that this is a field-based role requiring attendance at our services.

We will be interviewing throughout the duration of this advert. Therefore if you are interested in this role an early application is advised as we may close the advert prior to the advertised date.

If you would like a full copy of the job description, please contact us via vacancies@alliance.co.uk

Main duties of the job

• To support and guide the management of Risk across the business, including Risk Assessment, Risk Registers, Incident Reporting, Investigations and lessons learned

• To support the wider business in managing Risk & Incident systems administration (Datix) to ensure the effective management of risk & incidents, promoting quality and patient safety

• To support to analysis of themes around risks and incidents to aid with reporting and highlighting areas for improvement

• To support education and training relating to Quality and Risk issues that impact on the business

• To support the management and investigation of Level One complaints in support of escalation/closure and lessons learned

• To support the Heads of Quality & Risk in the delivery of Strategy in support of organisational requirements to support a safe service to all

• To manage the administrative side of Policy & procedures to ensure compliance across the business

• To develop and review policy and procedures as appropriate to designated area of responsibility, making sure that national guidance is reflected and cascaded to all Alliance Medical staff

• To be a representative at relevant designated Alliance Medical Governance Committee meetings

• To attend internal Regional, Quality & Risk, Corporate and external stakeholder / site meetings as appropriate, promoting Alliance Medical

About us

Alliance Medical are Europe's leading independent provider of imaging services.

We combine service excellence and innovative imaging technologies to improve patient care and support NHS and independent organisations with their ongoing imaging requirements. Our approach has delivered consistent company growth for more than 30 years.

We live by our company values to ensure the highest level of patient care:

Details

• Date posted: 10 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: Depending on experience
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: JobRef-1489
• Job locations: The Woods Opus Business Park Haywood Road, Warwick, CV34 5AH, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

About the role

Are you passionate about patient safety, quality improvement and creating a culture of continuous learning? We're looking for an experienced and motivated Quality & Risk Advisor to play a pivotal role in strengthening our quality, governance and risk management frameworks.

Working closely with senior leaders and supporting our Regional Heads of Q&R, you'll help drive our Quality & Risk programme, providing oversight and daily management of incidents, complaints, risk management and policy development. You'll be at the heart of ensuring our services remain safe, compliant and continuously improving, while supporting adherence to regulatory and accreditation standards, including CQC requirements and BS 70000 accreditation where applicable.

This is a fantastic opportunity to influence organisational quality and safety performance, lead on incident and risk management processes, and maximise the effectiveness of our Datix systems. If you thrive in a role where you can make a measurable difference, champion best practice and help shape the future of healthcare quality, we'd love to hear from you.

Please note that this is a fieldbased role requiring attendance at our services.

We will be interviewing throughout the duration of this advert. Therefore if you are interested in this role an early application is advised as we may close the advert prior to the advertised date.

If you would like a full copy of the job description, please contact the recruitment team via vacancies@alliance.co.uk

Essential:

• Clinical Practitioner or relevant experience in clinical setting - with suitable experience to deliver requirements
• Knowledge and Understanding of Quality and Risk standard requirements as applied to a healthcare organisation
• Knowledge of Regulatory Requirements as applied to the various modalities IRMER, CQC, QSI, BS70000 etc
• Evidence of innovation in clinical practice
• Competent professional, comfortable operating across multiple sites across a large geographical area
• Evidence of on-going professional development
• Evidence of ability to self-direct/self motivate, make decisions and generate ideas
• Well-developed IT skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• UK driving license extensive travel may be expected with this role

Desirable:

• Patient Safety Course
• PSIRF incident investigation course
• IOSH Managing safely Course
• Datix Certified Professional in Datix Cloud IQ & Datix Web training - or willingness to undertake
• Knowledge and experience of External Assessment/Inspections
• Evidence of completing and developing clinical audit programmes
• Involvement in regulatory assessment/inspections
• Experience of carrying out research/publication

Major accountabilities will include:

To support and guide the management of Risk across the business, including Risk Assessment, Risk Registers, Incident Reporting, Investigations and lessons learned

To support the wider business in managing Risk & Incident systems administration (Datix) to ensure the effective management of risk & incidents, promoting quality and patient safety

To support to analysis of themes around risks and incidents to aid with reporting and highlighting areas for improvement

To support education and training relating to Quality and Risk issues that impact on the business

To support the management and investigation of Level One complaints in support of escalation/closure and lessons learned

To support the Heads of Quality & Risk in the delivery of Strategy in support of organisational requirements to support a safe service to all

To manage the administrative side of Policy & procedures to ensure compliance across the business

To develop and review policy and procedures as appropriate to designated area of responsibility, making sure that national guidance is reflected and cascaded to all Alliance Medical staff

To be a representative at relevant designated Alliance Medical Governance Committee meetings

To attend internal Regional, Quality & Risk, Corporate and external stakeholder / site meetings as appropriate, promoting Alliance Medical