Clinical Governance Co-ordinator (XN05)

Job summary

Expected Shortlisting Date

31/03/2026

Planned Interview Date

14/04/2026

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to the right candidate to join our dynamic endoscopy service as a Clinical governance coordinator. You will work closely alongside the Lead nurse for quality and governance, endoscopy matron and the wider Abdominal Medicines and Surgery (AMS) quality team, helping to ensure that our services are safe, effective and person centred.

This is a challenging and rewarding role and offers a fantastic opportunity for you to join an excellent team that prioritises quality and safety, whilst striving to continuously improve the service that we offer to our patients.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist and support the senior team in ensuring the delivery of CSU wide compliance with statutory, mandatory and national clinical governance standards and support the team to ensure good clinical governance practice across the services. You will help embed processes and systems and provide assurance that we are consistently meeting our high standards.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for supporting the Lead Quality Nurse and Governance Lead to facilitate the on-going accreditation and development of the quality systems within Endoscopy. The post holder will support the CSU Triumvirate team by ensuring availability of data and records as required. The post holder will support other colleagues within the CSU as required. The post holder will be involved in the development and maintenance of audit schedules, service improvements and root cause analysis. There will be a requirement to work in collaboration with colleagues across the region under WYAAT to maintain safe systems of work for patients that are transferred in and out of LTHT for care and treatment prior to being re patriated with their home team. The post holder will have the confidence and skill base to coordinate regional meetings, take minutes and facilitate online presentations and access for colleagues participating remotely.

Commitment to providing high quality evidence-based care to patients and their carers.

Commitment to working in a multidisciplinary team (both primary and secondary care providers).

Commitment to the clinical area, valuing the contribution of all team members, encouraging a positive and creative working environment.

Commitment to own development and the development of all staff within the unit.

About us

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

THE LEEDS WAY VALUES

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centered

Collaborative

Fair

Accountable

Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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