Job summary
This is a great time to join GMMH as we continue our journey and embed our improvements from the past 2 years.
We are seeking an Associate Director of Clinical Quality and Regulation to work in the Quality and Professions Directorate under the leadership of the Chief Nurse.
Core to this role is the portfolio for patient experience and patient safety, you will work with a highly skilled team to drive patient safety across GMMH and continue to improve how we hear from people who use our services, their carers and families as well as the communities we serve.
You will be a clinician who has a breadth of experience and knowledge in mental health services and understand the complexities of delivering clinical care across a multitude of services, you will lead specific portfolio work such as the interpretation of biological sex within the sexual harm agenda, ensure the QEIA processes are effective and ensure reports are provided in a timely manner to committees and groups.
The post holder will be responsible for Clinical Quality and Regulation which includes within the portfolio the delivery of the following functions Experience and Engagement, Patient safety (PSIRF), CQC compliance, Quality visits and accreditation processes, learning lessons, complaints and inquest activity across GMMH as a corporate service to the clinical care groups, ensuring that services are delivered to a high standard.
INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD ON THE 30TH OF APRIL 2026.
Main duties of the job
For full details, please read the Job Description/Person Specification attached.
The post holder will be responsible for Clinical Quality and Regulation which includes within the portfolio the delivery of the following functions Experience and Engagement, Patient safety (PSIRF), CQC compliance, Quality visits and accreditation processes, learning lessons, complaints and inquest activity across GMMH as a corporate service to the clinical care groups, ensuring that services are delivered to a high standard.
You will deputise for the Chief Nurse on matters pertaining to quality and regulation. You will ensure the appropriate structures and processes in place to deliver on a well led clinical quality and governance portfolio. You will also participate in the strategic on call rota.
The post holder will be responsible for Clinical Quality and Regulation which includes within the portfolio the delivery of the following functions Experience and Engagement, Patient safety (PSIRF), CQC compliance, Quality visits and accreditation processes, learning lessons, complaints and inquest activity across GMMH as a corporate service to the clinical care groups, ensuring that services are delivered to a high standard.
About us
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7,000members of staff, who deliver services from more than122locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits
- Pay Enhancements
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts
- fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits
- Pay Enhancements
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts
- fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level qualification as a minimum requirement.
- Evidence of active continued professional development to support the delivery of a clinical leadership role.
- Professional clinical registration such as Registered Nurse (MH), OT, psychologist, medic.
Desirable
- Masters degree qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience working at a senior level in clinical governance, risk and safety.
- Post graduate qualification or experience in associated quality governance roles, for example patient safety, quality improvement or professional additional qualifications that demonstrate an understanding of clinical quality and safety requirements.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience and Knowledge Extensive senior clinical management/professional leadership experience in a large complex NHS organisation.
- Knowledge of safeguarding and the legal duties expected of NHS organisations (trained to Level 3 ICD)
- Evidence of success in the management of change in a multi agency context.
- Demonstrate achievement of successfully introducing and managing large scale change.
- Demonstrate experience of line management.
- Evidence of representing a large organisation externally.
- Experience of chairing and managing sub-board level meetings effectively.
- Demonstrable experience of working in a leadership role in clinical governance NHS Trust including CQC mprovement, incident management, patient safety and complaints.
- Demonstrable experience of the NHS strategic agenda and implementing this in practice.
- Demonstrable experience of budget setting and managing a budget.
- Establishing, leading and managing organisation wide integrated governance frameworks that withstand regulatory scrutiny.
- Comprehensive knowledge and expertise regarding key NHS issues including national and local policy drivers and frameworks.
- Extensive knowledge and expertise in clinical and integrated governance and how this is applied systematically across a large complex NHS Trust.
- Knowledge of when and how to report serious incidents to external agencies.
- Robust understanding of the politically sensitive and potentially contentious nature of this role.
- Policy and strategy development and its relevance to clinical governance in the NHS.
- Experience of working in a patient safety-related role with an understanding of the principles that underpin approaches to improving patient safety in health systems
- Experience and knowledge of the components of clinical governance, incident response, risk management and assurance function; current NHS national policies, standards, requirements and directions that relate to measuring and improving the quality and safety of patient care
- Experience of implementing national guidelines and policies with the ability to interpret national advice, guidance and requirements and advise their organisation on how these should be implemented
Desirable
- Knowledge of safeguarding and the legal duties expected of NHS organisations
- Executive management and working at sub-board level in a governance role within a NHS Trust.
- Experience of leading governance, compliance and improvement programmes and evidence of improved ratings.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to manage, develop and maintain communication links with all stakeholders and effectively influence people on highly complex, emotional, sensitive and contentious issues where there are significant barriers to acceptance/ understanding.
- Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships and deal confidently with staff at all levels of an organisation
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
- Ability to handle multiple work streams/teams and deliver against targets/ KPIs on time.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
- Excellent influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent leadership, line management skills to include all aspects including recruitment, disciplinary, grievances and sickness/ absence.
- Ability to set and monitor standards for service provision and achievement of targets.
- Strong networking skills
- Excellent facilitation skills
- Ability to analyse and interpret information of complex nature and present it in a concise and simple and professional manner.
- Ability to deliver sensitive and potentially contentious information to a variety of audiences.
- Produce clear, accurate, written and verbal reports at Board level which at times may include contentious and/or sensitive material.
- Relate to and influence clinical staff, managers, education and research colleagues in both junior and senior positions.
- IT Literate to a high standard
- Ability to balance and manage multiple agendas and meet deadlines.
- Credibility across professional and organisational boundaries and proven ability to gain support from Chief Executives, Directors and senior decision making staff in all agencies.
- Ability to demonstrate leadership skills to create and maintain effective teams.
- Evidence of innovative and strategic thinking ability.
- Self-motivated team player committed to open and corporate effectiveness.
- Highly developed analytical skills.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level qualification as a minimum requirement.
- Evidence of active continued professional development to support the delivery of a clinical leadership role.
- Professional clinical registration such as Registered Nurse (MH), OT, psychologist, medic.
Desirable
- Masters degree qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience working at a senior level in clinical governance, risk and safety.
- Post graduate qualification or experience in associated quality governance roles, for example patient safety, quality improvement or professional additional qualifications that demonstrate an understanding of clinical quality and safety requirements.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience and Knowledge Extensive senior clinical management/professional leadership experience in a large complex NHS organisation.
- Knowledge of safeguarding and the legal duties expected of NHS organisations (trained to Level 3 ICD)
- Evidence of success in the management of change in a multi agency context.
- Demonstrate achievement of successfully introducing and managing large scale change.
- Demonstrate experience of line management.
- Evidence of representing a large organisation externally.
- Experience of chairing and managing sub-board level meetings effectively.
- Demonstrable experience of working in a leadership role in clinical governance NHS Trust including CQC mprovement, incident management, patient safety and complaints.
- Demonstrable experience of the NHS strategic agenda and implementing this in practice.
- Demonstrable experience of budget setting and managing a budget.
- Establishing, leading and managing organisation wide integrated governance frameworks that withstand regulatory scrutiny.
- Comprehensive knowledge and expertise regarding key NHS issues including national and local policy drivers and frameworks.
- Extensive knowledge and expertise in clinical and integrated governance and how this is applied systematically across a large complex NHS Trust.
- Knowledge of when and how to report serious incidents to external agencies.
- Robust understanding of the politically sensitive and potentially contentious nature of this role.
- Policy and strategy development and its relevance to clinical governance in the NHS.
- Experience of working in a patient safety-related role with an understanding of the principles that underpin approaches to improving patient safety in health systems
- Experience and knowledge of the components of clinical governance, incident response, risk management and assurance function; current NHS national policies, standards, requirements and directions that relate to measuring and improving the quality and safety of patient care
- Experience of implementing national guidelines and policies with the ability to interpret national advice, guidance and requirements and advise their organisation on how these should be implemented
Desirable
- Knowledge of safeguarding and the legal duties expected of NHS organisations
- Executive management and working at sub-board level in a governance role within a NHS Trust.
- Experience of leading governance, compliance and improvement programmes and evidence of improved ratings.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to manage, develop and maintain communication links with all stakeholders and effectively influence people on highly complex, emotional, sensitive and contentious issues where there are significant barriers to acceptance/ understanding.
- Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships and deal confidently with staff at all levels of an organisation
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
- Ability to handle multiple work streams/teams and deliver against targets/ KPIs on time.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
- Excellent influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent leadership, line management skills to include all aspects including recruitment, disciplinary, grievances and sickness/ absence.
- Ability to set and monitor standards for service provision and achievement of targets.
- Strong networking skills
- Excellent facilitation skills
- Ability to analyse and interpret information of complex nature and present it in a concise and simple and professional manner.
- Ability to deliver sensitive and potentially contentious information to a variety of audiences.
- Produce clear, accurate, written and verbal reports at Board level which at times may include contentious and/or sensitive material.
- Relate to and influence clinical staff, managers, education and research colleagues in both junior and senior positions.
- IT Literate to a high standard
- Ability to balance and manage multiple agendas and meet deadlines.
- Credibility across professional and organisational boundaries and proven ability to gain support from Chief Executives, Directors and senior decision making staff in all agencies.
- Ability to demonstrate leadership skills to create and maintain effective teams.
- Evidence of innovative and strategic thinking ability.
- Self-motivated team player committed to open and corporate effectiveness.
- Highly developed analytical skills.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
