Quality and Clinical Governance Lead

Vacancy type: Paid Vacancy

Function: Governance & Quality

Location: Hospice - Sully

Salary: £44,398 to £50,807 p/a (depending on experience)

Contract type: Permanent

Contract hours: Full time

Closing Date: 13/10/2024

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced manager with experience in quality assurance and clinical governance to join our team as our new Quality and Clinical Governance Lead.

About the role

Reporting to the Director of Nursing and Clinical Services, the successful candidate will be responsible for leading on all aspects of clinical governance, ensuring effective and sustainable quality assurance and governance systems are in place and embedded across Ty Hafan’s Care Services.

The postholder will be directly responsible for reviewing and analysing outputs from audit and risk assessments, and for the creation, oversight, and coordination of quality improvement plans. Working alongside the Care Senior Management team, they will also be responsible for devising and delivering on a robust clinical governance framework that ensures continuous compliance with regulatory requirements and standards, providing assurance to the Executive Team, Board of Trustees and our regulators that all statutory responsibilities are fulfilled.

This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to truly make a difference by driving improvements for the Children and families that access our services and helping ensure we continue to develop and deliver effective and safe services.

About you

We are looking for a passionate and organised individual with significant experience in leading on quality improvement initiatives and overseeing clinical governance. The successful candidate should have significant healthcare experience, with a proven track record of successfully leading teams and services to deliver high quality, safe services. As the ideal candidate you will also have:

• Proven experience in successfully managing teams
• A background in managing clinical governance, patient safety and quality within health services
• Experience of managing and ensuring effective risk management
• A track record of success in shaping and delivering projects, change initiatives and demonstrable service improvements
• Experience of ensuring compliance to statutory and regulatory requirements and working directly with regulatory bodies
• Experience of devising and implementing clinical audits and using clinical systems such as care databases.
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and incident management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, evidencing gravitas, diplomacy and sensitivity, to communicate clearly and effectively
• Adept at problem solving, with the ability to respond in an agile manner to sudden and unexpected demands.
• Great organisational skills with a flexible and can-do approach to be able to respond to changing and diverse work priorities.

About us

Ty Hafan's ambition is that when a child's life will be short, no family should have to live it on their own. Sadly, we know that thousands of families in Wales are struggling alone through fear, exhaustion and uncertainty that comes with caring for a child whose life will be short. We believe that no family should have to live this on their own and we are determined to walk alongside every family through life, death and beyond.

At Ty Hafan we are experts at caring for children with life-shortening conditions and our services support families in our hospice, in community settings, local hospitals and in families' homes. We understand that needs of each child and their family are unique, and we know that caring for a child with life-shortening condition is often extremely demanding. Our aim is to make sure that no one is doing this alone. Our colleagues, volunteers and supporter are crucial in the delivery of our ambition - we know that everyone plays a huge part in making sure that no family faces their child's short life alone.

Our Vision: A Wales where every child with life-shortening conditions lives a fulfilling life, supported with the compassion and specialist care and their family need.

Our Purpose: No family should have to face the unimaginable loss of their child alone. With children and families at the heart of all we do, we provide free care and support in our hospice and in community, offering a lifeline through out the childs short life, at end of life, through bereavement and beyond.

Our Values: At Ty Hafan we make a difference by living our values which are Demonstrating Compassion, Providing Excellent Service, Working Together and Taking Ownership.

Our benefits package includes:

• Holiday entitlement of 30 days (rising to 32 days with service) plus Bank Holidays
• Investment in your professional development with allocated time for training opportunities
• The ability to continue an existing NHS pension or to enrol in our Group Personal Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of 5%
• Life assurance (death in service benefit)
• Wellbeing support - employee assistance program, which provides a range of free services including counselling, financial and legal support
• Unlimited access to a 24/7 online GP as well as a range of other health expert
• Healthcare Cash Plan – claim back the cost for appointments and treatment such as dental, optical or physio
• Staff complementary therapy sessions offered regularly
• Cycle to work scheme, technology, mobile phone and will writing schemes
• Discounted gym membership and shopping discounts

If you have passion and drive and think you have what it takes to enrich the lives of the children and families using our services, then we would love to hear from you.

Please note this role is subject to the outcome of a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Enhanced Disclosure check and two satisfactory references.

Tips for applicants - All applications and interviews are reviewed against the job description and person specification; it is important that you familiarise yourself with these documents before progressing your application.