Head of Governance and Quality

Job summary

Are you looking to make for a change and to make a difference?

Highly Competitive Salary Depending on Experience

Stevenage/Birmingham

Are you looking for the next step in your career with a growing company that can offer you lots of variety?

The RCI Group was set up in 2018 as a parent company to our group of companies and stands for Respect, Courage and Innovation and brings together businesses who want to improve peoples lives. When people hit a crisis point in their lives, they can often fall through the gaps between the services, and our businesses innovate, to help fill those gaps and support people at the time when they need it the most.

RCI and its umbrella companies cover a diverse section of responsibilities including supporting Sexual Assault Referral Centres, Police Custody Suites across the country, Court Support Services, Safe and Secure Patient Transport, NHS data analysis, and more.

As we continue to grow, we are looking for a passionate, determined and resilient Head of Governance and Quality who wants to make a difference in the areas that we work in as well as within their career.

Main duties of the job

Some key responsibilities include:

• Supporting implementation of the National Patient Safety Strategy

• Incident identification, incident closure, quality control, incident themes and trends
• Oversight and co-ordination of patient safety alerts
• Working with the relevant business leads to liaise with the CQC to liaise and coordinate CQC inspections and visits and the development of CQC compliance tools
• Managing the external DPO and information governance provider
• Providing expert governance resource and support to the both businesses
• Liaising across the businesses with the overall aim to use safety to improve our services

Please see attached the full Job Description.

About us

Founded by passionate clinicians on a mission to provide expert patient-centred services, Mountain Healthcare leads the clinical forensic healthcare provisions sector in the UK. A premier partner of NHS England and the police, our unique provisions include Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs), Police Custodial Healthcare, Secure Estate Healthcare and clinical telephone advice. Driven by our values Be Kind and Do the Right Thing, Mountain Healthcare provides holistic and trauma-informed care that improves the immediate and long-term health outcomes of patients across the criminal justice system. Through innovative technologies and strategic partnerships, our expert clinicians ensure equal, effective and efficient services to all our patients and always put their health, safety and rights first. Join the Best Provider, Make the Greatest Difference Clinical forensic healthcare is a rapidly growing career path as demand for specialist critical services has greatly increased in recent years. At Mountain Healthcare, we understand that to provide the highest quality services for our patients and customers, our people must be the best in the field. We are proud to offer unrivalled staff training and development opportunities such as our unique Forensic Practitioner Gateway, our wide range of accredited and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses, and access to events across the health and justice sector.