# Quality and Risk Manager

**Company**: Circle Integrated Care
**Location**: Bedford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Up to £50,000.00 per year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://circlehealth.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/chgcareers/job/Circle-Integrated-Care---Bedford/Quality-and-Risk-Manager_JR118148?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3dbf78a7-270

## Description

We are seeking a Quality and Risk Manager to join our team at Circle Integrated Care - Bedford. This is a full-time role for 37.5 hours a week, with a flexible shift pattern.

As a Quality and Risk Manager, you will lead and coordinate the hospital's quality and governance functions, ensuring delivery of safe, high-quality patient care in line with CHG and national standards. You will champion a culture of safety and quality, raising awareness of governance frameworks and supporting staff to understand and implement key regulatory requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

- Preparing the hospital for CQC/HIS/HIW inspections, working with department leads to collate evidence and implement proactive improvement measures

- Coordinating responses and action plans following inspections and audits, ensuring outcomes are tracked and completed within required timeframes

- Ensuring all incidents and complaints are logged and closed in accordance with CHG policy timeframes

- Supporting and leading incident investigations, including Root Cause Analysis (RCA), ensuring outcomes are shared and actions embedded

To be successful in this role, you should have:

- Previous experience in the healthcare industry, with a background in governance or risk management

- Strong knowledge of clinical governance, CQC/HIS/HIW standards, and national quality frameworks

- Experience conducting complex investigations, including Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to present and educate confidently

- Proven ability to facilitate change, lead projects, and work collaboratively across teams

- Relevant health-related qualification and evidence of ongoing professional development

- Strong data analysis and report-writing skills with an eye for identifying trends and driving improvement

In terms of benefits, we offer:

- 25 days holiday per year + bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with service

- Management Bonus Scheme

- Private Pension Scheme

- Private Healthcare Scheme for treatment at our hospitals, covering pre-existing medical conditions

- Friends & Family Hospital Discounts

- Family Friendly policies, including enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption pay

- Non-contributory life insurance

- Staff engagement hub with access to discounts and extensive rewards and voluntary benefits

- Access to resources, tools and services to support your wellbeing

- Employee recognition programmes

- Industry leading training and development opportunities

## Skills

### Required
- clinical governance
- CQC/HIS/HIW standards
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- data analysis
- report-writing

---

Source: [Apply at circlehealth.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com](https://circlehealth.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/chgcareers/job/Circle-Integrated-Care---Bedford/Quality-and-Risk-Manager_JR118148?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)