Divisional Governance Lead Manager

Job summary

Are you determined and passionate about improving patient care, outcomes and experience? Does the word governance fill you with interest and energy? If so, this could be the job for you......

We are looking to recruit an experienced Head of Governance in the Surgery, Theatres, Neurosciences and Cancer Division here at St George's Hospital.

This is a busy and demanding senior role, requiring excellent organisational skills, the ability to work under pressure and to meet tight and changing deadlines. A pivotal skill is the ability to balance the regular compliance requirements with adhoc, and sometimes urgent, requests and needs for data and support from colleagues.

The primary purpose of this role is improving patient safety so you must have experience and knowledge of the challenges of working in a clinical setting. A key skill is the determination and resilience to keep going when others around you may falter. Your communication skills must be second to none, along with the ability to be comfortable working alongside both clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels across the Division and the Trust.

You must have excellent excel and IT skills, have extensive experience of leadership and line management along with knowledge and experience of working within patient safety frameworks.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities include:

• leadership and line management of the Divisional Governance team
• review and follow up on all patient safety and risk issues for the Division
• production of reports and presentations both on a monthly and adhoc basis
• analysis and presentation of data and information
• triangulation of patient safety data to ensure divisional focus is appropriate to risk
• management and update of the risk register, GP alerts and incidents
• representation and presentation at Care Group, Directorate, Divisional and Trust meetings
• facilitation of Divisional meetings and investigations

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.