# Quality Governance Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/quality-governance-lead/fda27443-1efd-48f7-b1f7-674c627576ff - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/quality-governance-lead/fda27443-1efd-48f7-b1f7-674c627576ff.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Tameside General Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Quality and governance manager - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment considered) - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Largely office based) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-02T12:13:32.949Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/AshtonUnderLyne/Tameside_Glossop_Integrated_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Governance/Governance-v8232498 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8232498?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Quality Governance Lead - 12 months fixed term An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Corporate Nursing and Integrated Governance Unit for an innovative and skilled Quality Governance Lead. You will require commitment, passion and motivation in order to fulfil the requirements of this role, in enabling corporate and divisional compliance with the national requirements and standards set by commissioners, Care quality commission, NHS England and other regulators. The post holder will provide Quality Governance support across the organisation, with a quality improvement, safety, compliance and assurance focus. You will need excellent organisational skills, as well as communication and interpersonal skills to enable you to work with varying levels of managers, clinicians and administrative colleagues. If you believe you have the skills, enthusiasm and ambition to join our team, we would love to hear from you. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will be one of the team of senior staff and leaders in the Nursing and Integrated Governance Team who will collectively have the responsibility for enabling corporate and divisional compliance with the national requirements and standards set by the Commissioners, Care Quality Commission, NHS England/Improvement and other regulators. The post holder will provide Quality Governance support across the organisation. The role has a quality improvement, safety, compliance and assurance focus. The post holder will: - Provide leadership and professional advice to managers and staff within the Trust on governance and assurance processes. - Support the delivery of the Trust and Divisional assurance, quality, safety, and governance strategies and agendas which underpin the delivery of the corporate objectives and Trust response to the NHS Long Term Plan. - Be responsible for leading the development, and maintenance of the Divisional Quality Assurance Framework with the senior management team and ensure alignment and compliance with the Trust’s overarching policies relating to Integrated Governance Quality Assurance Framework. - With Divisional Directors and Directorate Managers, Senior Nurses and Clinical Leads and the Associate Director of Quality Governance ensure that systems are in place to provide assurances, insight foresight and oversight in respect of quality and safety for staff, patients and service users across spheres of responsibility. ### 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 focuses 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 ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive experience in a senior management role within a governance compliance or assurance environment preferably in a social care or health organisation. - Experience of multi professional and agency working to deliver improvement programmes/agendas across services. - Experience of developing and implementing systems to enable monitoring and collating evidence of assurances. - Experience of delivering and coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments. - Experience in teaching small and large groups and delivery of presentations with confidence to a range of audiences. - Proven track record of delivering change. **Desirable** - Previous experience of working in patient safety or in a clinical or social care environment. - Root cause analysis/ Human factors training. - Experience of participating in clinical or process audits. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Degree or degree level educational qualification - Postgraduate level qualification / training or equivalent work experience in a risk management and governance environment **Desirable** - Masters level education - Prince 2 qualification - Registered Health Care Professional with a current professional registration ### Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - Extensive working knowledge of governance processes in clinical services and the interface with quality of care and assurance mechanisms. - In depth knowledge of patient safety / risk management and governance within a Health or Social care organisation - Working knowledge of NHS regulatory programmes of work and the relationship with / to risk management strategy and policy - Knowledge of the wider NHS governance programmes of work and national agenda - Developed analytical skills with the ability to assess, synthesize, interpret, act and report upon complex qualitative and quantitative data from a variety of sources - Understanding of audit and improvement methodology - Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal **Desirable** - Knowledge of Safeguard Ulysses software system or similar risk management system ## Documents - [candidate pack (pdf, 343.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3042) - [hospital site map (jpg, 160.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2829) - [hospital floor plan (pdf, 50.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1204) - [quality governance lead jd and person spec august 2026 (pdf, 448.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10542580) ## 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.