# Quality, Safety & Governance Lead– Medicine Division > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/quality-safety-and-governance-lead-medicine-division/41b1c96e-0f73-4e6c-9aa3-b69ebeedabae - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/quality-safety-and-governance-lead-medicine-division/41b1c96e-0f73-4e6c-9aa3-b69ebeedabae.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £63,665 - £70,887 per annum inc - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-15T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-01T10:43:08.046Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Barts_Health_NHS_Trust/Corporate_Nursing/Corporate_Nursing-v8103906 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8103906?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The postholder will lead divisional governance and patient safety functions, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements. Key responsibilities include: - Patient Safety Leadership: Oversee PSIRF implementation, ensuring timely and high-quality learning responses for serious harm incidents. - Governance Assurance: Maintain robust systems for triangulating incidents, complaints, mortality reviews, and outcomes to identify systemic risks and prevent repeat harm. - Regulatory Compliance: Ensure adherence to CQC standards and Duty of Candour obligations, safeguarding patient engagement and transparency. - Risk Management: Provide senior clinical judgment and assurance to mitigate patient safety risks and uphold organisational resilience. - Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with Trust-level teams while maintaining divisional ownership of safety and governance processes. - Capacity Building: Support the development of a strong safety culture within the division through leadership, education, and continuous improvement initiatives. ### Main duties of the job The Quality, Safety & Governance Lead – Medicine Division (Band 8a) is a senior clinical leadership role at Newham Hospital, responsible for ensuring robust governance, patient safety, and compliance within the Medicine Division. The position is critical to the Trust’s functionality and is embedded within the divisional workforce plan. It requires professional registration (NMC/HCPC), senior clinical credibility, and expertise in PSIRF (Patient Safety Incident Response Framework), learning responses, and governance assurance. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below. ## Job Details The postholder will lead divisional governance and patient safety functions, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements. Key responsibilities include: Patient Safety Leadership: Oversee PSIRF implementation, ensuring timely and high-quality learning responses for serious harm incidents. Governance Assurance: Maintain robust systems for triangulating incidents, complaints, mortality reviews, and outcomes to identify systemic risks and prevent repeat harm. Regulatory Compliance: Ensure adherence to CQC standards and Duty of Candour obligations, safeguarding patient engagement and transparency. Risk Management: Provide senior clinical judgment and assurance to mitigate patient safety risks and uphold organisational resilience. Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with Trust-level teams while maintaining divisional ownership of safety and governance processes. Capacity Building: Support the development of a strong safety culture within the division through leadership, education, and continuous improvement initiatives. ## Job Description The Quality, Safety & Governance Lead – Medicine Division (Band 8a) is a senior clinical leadership role at Newham Hospital, responsible for ensuring robust governance, patient safety, and compliance within the Medicine Division. The position is critical to the Trust’s functionality and is embedded within the divisional workforce plan. It requires professional registration (NMC/HCPC), senior clinical credibility, and expertise in PSIRF (Patient Safety Incident Response Framework), learning responses, and governance assurance. ## Responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Commitment to the Trust’s WeCare values and compassionate leadership - Ability to work effectively in a complex, pressured environment - Resilience, curiosity and a learning- focused mindset **Desirable** - Motivation to develop as a senior nursing leader - Interest in patient safety innovation, learning systems or service transformation ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to analyse and use quality, safety and patient experience information to support improvement - Clear and confident communication skills, written and verbal - Ability to influence, support and appropriately challenge colleagues - Ability to lead change and support teams through improvement **Desirable** - Experience presenting information to senior colleagues or governance forums - Coaching, facilitation or mentoring skills - Ability to translate learning and assurance into practical ward-level improvement ### Knowledge **Essential** - Understanding of clinical governance, patient safety and risk management principles - Awareness of national patient safety priorities and quality frameworks - Understanding of the importance of learning, openness and Duty of Candour **Desirable** - Developing knowledge of PSIRF, quality improvement methodologies and systems thinking - Awareness of regulatory and assurance processes (e.g. CQC) - Understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion in healthcare improvement ### Experience **Essential** - Experience in a senior nursing role within acute hospital services - Experience contributing to quality, safety or governance activity at ward, service or divisional level - Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams - Experience supporting learning from incidents, complaints or patient feedback **Desirable** - Experience leading improvement, safety or governance work beyond own ward or service - Exposure to PSIRF, learning response models or incident investigation - Experience supporting or deputising at Matron or senior leadership level ### Qualifications **Essential** - Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional Experience - Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development **Desirable** - Registered Nurse with full and current UK NMC registration / Current AHP with UK HCPC registration - Working towards or willingness to undertake Master’s level study - Leadership, management or quality improvement training - Training or development in patient safety, human factors or improvement science ## Documents - [bus route (pdf, 158.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10398366) - [job description (pdf, 801.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10398365) - [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446) - [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120) ## 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.