Quality, Safety & Governance Lead– Medicine Division

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.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.