Job Description:

Head of Clinical Governance

Cromwell Hospital

Kensington, SW5 0TU (5 mins walk from Earls Court underground or 7 mins walk from Gloucester Road underground.)

Full Time

£75,000-£80,000 + Management Bonus Scheme

How you'll help us make health happen.

The Head of Clinical Governance is a visible and proactive leader who is responsible for the clinical governance systems within the Cromwell Hospital and associated diagnostic centres and delivery sites.

You will be a proactive leader who takes accountability to ensure that a patient centric approach is embedded within the organisation's methodology to safety and quality, acting as a champion for the patient voice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with clinical and operational leaders ensuring clear systems to ensure patient and organisational safety and compliance with regulatory standards are designed, implemented, monitored and reported against.

• Lead the clinical governance strategy to ensure this is constantly updated to include relevant local and national requirements and develop appropriate processes to monitor its effectiveness.

• Be responsible for the management of the organisations document management system ensuring clear systems in place for document review, quality assurance and control testing.

• Make sure strong systems of learning from adverse events, complaints, audit assurance and regulatory findings are identified, embedded, shared across the organisation and monitored to improve the quality and safety of services.

• Promote incident reporting systems across clinical services and ensure incidents are being reported, action taken, and outcomes monitored within the services and clinical support departments.

• Produce monthly reports, quarterly quality reports and serious or patient safety incident investigation reports in a timely manner. 

• Ensure a thorough investigation is undertaken for all patient safety incident investigations and for others, where appropriate, and to support clinical staff and those who are involved in any incident through the process.

• Generate action plans in response to audit plans and ensure findings are identified, implemented and monitored, providing assurance and oversight to relevant Cromwell and Bupa colleagues and leaders.

Key Skills / Qualifications:

• Degree (or appropriate professional level) qualification in a healthcare field.

• Significant experience in clinical governance management within a complex acute healthcare provider.

• Ability to conduct effective safety investigations that meet patient safety incident response standards set

• out in the national PSIRF.

• Proficiency of teaching and mentoring quality improvement and incident investigation methodologies.

• Experience of leading and managing organisational/service development with a proven track record of achieving improvements.

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:

• Payment of professional registration fees

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

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 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

If you would like more information on the role, please contact louise.griffiths@bupa.com 

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