# Head of Governance, Quality and Patient Safety

**Company**: Haven House Children's Hospice
**Location**: Woodford Green, Essex
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £57,528 to £60,417 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

You will lead the Governance and Education Team, with responsibility for patient safety, risk management, clinical audit, quality improvement, policy oversight and regulatory assurance.

The post holder will lead the organisations governance and quality systems, ensuring robust processes are in place to support the delivery of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led services.

Key Responsibilities:

- Governance and Quality: Own the organisational governance and assurance framework, with individual service leads remaining accountable for the delivery and reporting of safe practice, compliance and improvement within their areas.

- Patient Safety and Learning: Act as the organisational lead for patient safety and incident management.

- CQC and Regulatory Assurance: Lead organisational readiness for assessment and inspection under the CQC Single Assessment Framework.

- Risk Management, Audit and Assurance: Lead the clinical risk management framework and maintain the clinical risk register.

- Clinical Effectiveness and Quality Improvement: Lead the organisational Quality Improvement Strategy and promote the use of quality improvement methodology across services.

- Policy and Information Governance: Lead the organisational policy management framework, including development, consultation, review, ratification and implementation.

- Safeguarding: Support the Designated Safeguarding Lead and team in the governance and assurance of safeguarding arrangements.

- Education and Workforce Development: Provide strategic oversight of clinical education, training and competency frameworks delivered by the Education and Governance Team.

- Leadership and Management: Provide professional leadership and line management to the Education and Governance Team.

- Collaborative Working: Work collaboratively with clinical, operational and corporate leaders to improve governance, quality and safety.

## Skills

### Required
- patient safety
- risk management
- clinical audit
- quality improvement
- policy oversight
- regulatory assurance

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