# Director of Clinical Governance

**Company**: Bupa
**Location**: Angel Court, London, London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We make health happen at Bupa, helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

We're looking for a Director of Clinical Governance to lead the clinical governance agenda across Bupa's UK Insurance and Healthcare businesses (BGIUK). This is a highly influential leadership role that sits at the heart of patient safety, quality improvement and healthcare regulation.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead the clinical governance strategy across BGIUK, covering both healthcare provision and insurance businesses.

- Promote a positive culture of learning, improvement and patient safety.

- Act as the senior clinical governance contact for internal and external stakeholders, including regulators and governance committees.

- Build strong relationships with national healthcare leaders and regulatory bodies.

- Develop and embed best-practice approaches to quality, safety, clinical risk and governance.

- Lead and support a network of clinical governance experts across BGIUK.

- Use clinical data and insights to identify trends, reduce risk and drive improvements.

- Oversee the Market Unit clinical risk register and report key risks to senior stakeholders.

- Chair the BGIUK Clinical Governance Committee and provide assurance reporting to governance forums.

- Oversee the management and learning from significant incidents and serious complaints.

- Support the safe adoption of innovation and new technologies through effective governance processes.

- Lead, develop and inspire the clinical governance team.

- Provide expert advice on healthcare regulation, compliance, clinical quality and risk management.

- Deputise for the Chief Medical Officer when required.

**What We're Looking For**

- Current registration as a healthcare professional (Ideally from a nursing background).

- At least five years' clinical practice experience.

- Significant experience in senior clinical governance, quality, risk or compliance roles.

- A relevant clinical, governance, risk or healthcare qualification.

- Strong knowledge of UK healthcare regulation and governance requirements.

- Experience working within complex, highly regulated healthcare environments.

- Excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills.

- The ability to influence and challenge constructively at executive level.

- Strong analytical skills, with experience using data to support decision-making and quality improvement.

- Experience leading teams and driving cultural change.

- Knowledge of healthcare services across hospital, community, dental, care or insurance settings would be beneficial.

- Understanding of risk management frameworks and governance assurance processes.

**Benefits**

- Annual performance bonus

- Bupa private medical insurance

- 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy or sell leave

- Enhanced pension contribution

- Life assurance

- Family friendly benefits

- Discounts on Bupa products and services

- Support for flexible and hybrid working

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## Skills

### Required
- clinical governance
- quality improvement
- patient safety
- healthcare regulation
- leadership
- stakeholder management
- analytical skills
- team leadership

### Nice to have
- nursing background
- UK healthcare regulation
- governance requirements
- complex healthcare environments
- risk management frameworks

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