Job summary
Are you passionate about improving care, strengthening safety, and shaping a culture where learning is embedded and shared? Our Physical Health and Mental Health Services on the Isle of Wight are recruiting a Quality Governance Matron, we are looking for motivated, values driven professional to help us deliver outstanding care across our community services, inpatient wards, speciality teams and acute in reach services.
This is a great opportunity to work at the heart of quality improvement, patient safety, and clinical governance across a wide range of services.
Our Quality & Governance Team plays a central role in:
* Strengthening patient safety and supporting a proactive, learning focused culture.
* Supporting quality improvement across physical and mental health pathways.
* Supporting incident management, thematic learning, and improvement actions.
* Ensuring robust governance processes that are inclusive, transparent, and responsive.
* Empowering clinical teams to embed evidence based practice and continuous improvement.
* Supporting regulatory compliance and preparation for external inspections.
* Championing service user involvement and coproduction in quality work.
You'll be part of a supportive, collaborative team that values professional curiosity, compassion, and integrity.
If you're energised by enabling meaningful change and want to support teams to deliver safe, compassionate, and effective care, we'd love to hear from you
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone who will bring:
* A passion for improving care and supporting teams to learn and grow.
* Strong analytical, organisational, and communication skills.
* Experience in quality improvement, patient safety and quality governance.
* An ability to establish and foster positive relationships and influence change and improvement across a diverse range of services.
* A commitment to fairness, transparency, and inclusive practice.
* Professional curiosity, resilience, and a genuine desire to make things better for the local population.
Whether you are experienced in quality governance or looking to step into a quality focused role, we welcome applications from people are excited by the idea of supporting teams to deliver safer, compassionate and effective care.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered healthcare professional
- Masters level qualification or have evidence of experience equivalent to master's level study.
- Evidence of ongoing and relevant personal and professional development
Desirable
- Recognised teaching and assessing qualification
Experience
Essential
- In-depth knowledge of the quality governance agenda including health and safety, clinical risk issues and quality initiatives.
- Clinical, managerial and leadership skills appropriate to the role.
- Ability to work autonomously
- Teaching
- Computer literate and proficient in Microsoft Office programme suite
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with staff at all levels.
- Specialist knowledge of the professional leadership and management of nursing, midwifery or Allied Health Professional services has been developed.
- Able to actively participate at strategic level to highlight clinical needs/gaps and aid in the implementation of service development.
- Able to participate in the development of care standards and service development.
- Excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills
- Reflective practitioner
- Leadership
- Ability to problem-solve, prioritise and delegate appropriately. Demonstrating innovation and flexible thinking.
- Critical, analytical and decision-making skills
- Effective time management
- Assertiveness
- Self-awareness
- Able to develop and sustain relationships across professional boundaries.
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
- Principles of adult learning and behavioural change.
- Principles of supervision and reflective practice.
- Knowledge of national agendas and the effect of practice e.g. NSFs including chronic disease management and the public health agenda.
- The Clinical Governance framework and implementation for service delivery.
- Risk management and root cause analysis
- Knowledge of leadership strategies and group dynamics.
- Experience of the recruitment and retention process.
- Change management processes
- Ability to travel daily for meetings across a range of sites on the Isle of Wight
- Holds a valid up to date registration with their professional body.
- Holds a valid full driving licence which enables them to drive in the UK.
- Physically capable of performing the role and responsibilities expected of the post holder, e.g. lone working
- Ability to understand and contextualise complex information for dissemination to all levels across the division
- Ability to formulate and implement personal and team objectives.
Desirable
- Clinical supervision facilitator
- Knowledge of local health needs strategies.
- Knowledge of the integration of local and inter-agency strategies.
- Multi agency services available for adults and processes for referral
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered healthcare professional
- Masters level qualification or have evidence of experience equivalent to master's level study.
- Evidence of ongoing and relevant personal and professional development
Desirable
- Recognised teaching and assessing qualification
Experience
Essential
- In-depth knowledge of the quality governance agenda including health and safety, clinical risk issues and quality initiatives.
- Clinical, managerial and leadership skills appropriate to the role.
- Ability to work autonomously
- Teaching
- Computer literate and proficient in Microsoft Office programme suite
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with staff at all levels.
- Specialist knowledge of the professional leadership and management of nursing, midwifery or Allied Health Professional services has been developed.
- Able to actively participate at strategic level to highlight clinical needs/gaps and aid in the implementation of service development.
- Able to participate in the development of care standards and service development.
- Excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills
- Reflective practitioner
- Leadership
- Ability to problem-solve, prioritise and delegate appropriately. Demonstrating innovation and flexible thinking.
- Critical, analytical and decision-making skills
- Effective time management
- Assertiveness
- Self-awareness
- Able to develop and sustain relationships across professional boundaries.
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
- Principles of adult learning and behavioural change.
- Principles of supervision and reflective practice.
- Knowledge of national agendas and the effect of practice e.g. NSFs including chronic disease management and the public health agenda.
- The Clinical Governance framework and implementation for service delivery.
- Risk management and root cause analysis
- Knowledge of leadership strategies and group dynamics.
- Experience of the recruitment and retention process.
- Change management processes
- Ability to travel daily for meetings across a range of sites on the Isle of Wight
- Holds a valid up to date registration with their professional body.
- Holds a valid full driving licence which enables them to drive in the UK.
- Physically capable of performing the role and responsibilities expected of the post holder, e.g. lone working
- Ability to understand and contextualise complex information for dissemination to all levels across the division
- Ability to formulate and implement personal and team objectives.
Desirable
- Clinical supervision facilitator
- Knowledge of local health needs strategies.
- Knowledge of the integration of local and inter-agency strategies.
- Multi agency services available for adults and processes for referral
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
