Head of Governance

Job summary

HMT have an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior leader to join us and play a key part ensuring we follows effective, transparent and accountable governance and compliance procedures which comply with the good practice and fulfil charity, statutory and regulatory requirements.

This role requires an individual who is driven, ambitious and passionate about governance processes and systems with a desire to influence and work in close partnership with senior leaders.

The post holder will work across the organisation, providing support and expert advice and guidance to the senior leadership team on a range of statutory and regulatory areas.

This role will provide dynamic, senior leadership, visibility and expert support to the governance culture and have sufficient seniority to engage directly with the executive team. They will engage in networks to share good practice.

The preference is for this role to be based from our Durham office, with the option forhybridworking, with regular travel to HMT sites expected.

Join us in shaping the future of health and social care and making a meaningful impact in achieving HMT's vision to be the most innovative and best quality provider of niche health and social care services.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for oversight and monitoring of non-clinical/care incidents, including, but not limited to, providing support to sites in the investigation of non-clinical are incidents, the identification and reporting on non-clinical & care trends, themes and learning from incidents and preparing and reporting to various meetings.
• Responsible for oversight and management of policy systems and processes, together with oversight of compliance.
• Ownership of various governance, regulatory and quality policies
• Oversight and reporting to meetings on non-clinical & care risks on the risk register, ensuring all risks are accurately captured, recorded correctly and are monitored for overdue reviews and actions.
• To provide training on identification and recording of non-clinical & care risks and how to use risk registers.
• Assisting in the development of the board assurance framework.
• Responsibility for oversight of complaints processes, including identifying and reporting on non-clinical & care trends, themes and learning from complaints and monitoring and reporting compliance with processes.
• Responsible for the development of complaints handling training
• Responsibility to work with the Systems Governance Manager to develop of various Ulysses modules including dashboards in areas such as incidents, complaints, risk, claims and inquests, compliance module

About us

At the Healthcare Management Trust, we are obsessed with achieving our Vision, to be the most innovative and best quality provider of niche health and social care services.

Our Purpose is, to make every contact count, ensuring every resident and patient receives the best possible experience and outcome.

We aim to provide services which value collaboration and place our residents, patients and people at the heart of all we do. We will always do the right thing for our residents, patients and people.

We will be outwardly connected to the most innovative practices and service offerings in the market. We will do things differently and will be bold with our ambition to change things for the better.

We are passionate about what we do and so are our people. Bringing their most authentic selves to work and seeking joy and fun in what we do.

We will deliver care and clinical interactions compassionately and tailor them to individual needs.

We achieve this by living our business Values each and every day:

We are caring We are enterprising We are resourceful We are authentic We are accountable

As a result, we are able to give back to the people and communities we serve by delivering on our Charitable Mission to, Provide quality and innovative care solutions to those with complex needs within marginalized community settings.

Employer details

Employer name

Healthcare Management Trust – St Hugh’s Hospital

Address

St. Hughs Hospital

Peaks Lane

Grimsby

DN32 9RP

Employer's website

https://hmtsthughs.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Healthcare Management Trust – St Hugh’s Hospital

Address

St. Hughs Hospital

Peaks Lane

Grimsby

DN32 9RP

Employer's website

https://hmtsthughs.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

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