Job Description:
Regional Director of Clinical Governance
Competitive Salary & bonus / benefits
London (x2 days a week in office)
Permanent
37.5 hours per week
Closing date - 5th June 2025
We make health happen
At Bupa, our purpose is to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and make a better world. As the Regional Director of Clinical Governance, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that our services are of consistently high quality, safe, and effective. You will provide leadership and strategic direction to our clinical governance agenda across both provision and insurance, ensuring that our customers receive the best possible care. This role is integral to our mission, driving customer retention and growth by maintaining high standards of clinical safety and quality.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of a Clinical Governance strategy for region (UK & India market)
Develop and embed best-practice clinical governance frameworks
Act as the clinical point of contact for internal and external stakeholders
Manage clinical governance team to meet policy requirements.
Ensure compliance with healthcare regulatory requirements
Oversee risk processes, Integrated Management System and SAI 360.
Lead the clinical governance agenda
Manage the clinical risk register and oversee incident reporting and investigation.
Chair and manage the Clinical Governance Committee and prepare Board level papers.
What We're Looking For
Medical Doctor with significant clinical practice & governance experience
Excellent healthcare regulatory requirement knowledge, experience in shaping responses to regulatory changes.
Professional clinical and risk qualification or relevant degree with extensive post-qualification experience.
Strong understanding of clinical risk, control, and regulation
Proven track record in clinical quality assurance and risk mitigation.
Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
Experience in people management and leading change
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family-friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
30% Management Bonus eligibility
Car Allowance
Generous pension allowance (contributory)
Family Health Insurance
Life Insurance
25 days annual leave (option to buy / sell 5 days a year)
Corporate discounts (e.g. retail, travel, gym membership)
Why Bupa
We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com
Time Type:
Full timeJob Area:
Locations:
Angel Court, London
Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. People are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we make health happen.
Every company needs an ethos, and we're no different. Through good days and challeging times, we always work with our values in mind. These are: Brave - Make new possibilities happen. Caring - Act with empathy and respect. Responsible - Own your decisions and actions.
We don't have shareholders at Bupa, which means we're free to invest our profits where they matter: our patients, our facilities, our research, and you.
As a healthcare provider, we have a duty to do the right thing. By our customers, our people and our partners. The Bupa Code holds us to this duty. It's our promise to protect, care for, and build trust with everyone who relies on us.
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.
You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.Free
to be you.
Back in September 2018, we made a pledge. That we'd do whatever we could to make Bupa a diverse, kind and inclusive place to work.
Everyone deserves a positive working environment. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard. Everyone deserves freedom from bullying, harassment and discrimination.