About this role
Job summary
We are seeking a highly motivated Clinical Governance Facilitator to join our team. The successful candidate will play a key role in role in ensuring that there are effective structures and processes in place within the Division of Women's and Children's to effectively implement and continuously monitor Clinical Governance activity (i.e. the seven pillars of governance/ all governance domains) across the Division alongside the CGF for maternity.
This role involves providing expert leadership and specialist advice, support and feedback on matters relating to clinical governance, including patient safety, clinical risk assessments, and health and safety governance to all grades of staff including both management and clinicians within the relevant Business Unit(s) and Division. Demanding and challenging, this role will engage all of your existing skills, and build on them. You will work alongside and support the wider multidisciplinary team in providing a high-quality service to all key stakeholders within the organisation.
The post will play a leading role in ensuring that there are effective structures and processes in place within the Business Units to effectively, implement and continuously monitor, Clinical Governance activity across the Division. In this way they will facilitate and enable Organisational compliance with the national requirements and standards set by the Integrated Care Boards, Care Quality Commission.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will lead the Division of Women's and Children's Governance Team alongside the CGF for maternity, with compassion, kindness, leadership and shape outstanding quality care alongside the divisional multidisciplinary team.
Support the allocated Business Units, and their clinical sub specialities, on all aspects of clinical Governance to ensure compliance with Trust and National standards and targets in clinical governance issues.
Provide leadership and specialist advice, support and feedback on matters relating to clinical governance, including patient safety, clinical risk assessments, and health and safety governance to all grades of staff including both management and clinicians within the relevant Business Unit(s) and Division.
Provide reports to key Trust level Strategic Committees regarding clinical and patient safety incidents, and near miss incidents, to facilitate effective decision-making.
Enable the establishment of a clear stratagem of organisational learning as a result of incidents and other key patient safety and service quality issues.
Closing date of applications: 21 May 2026
Interview date: 4 June 2026
About us
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond. Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes Key Facts:
We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day. We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week. An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country. Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily. Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres. We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres. We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day. UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
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Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Educated to degree level
Desirable
Educated to Masters Level or equivalent in a relevant discipline PSIRF training
Experience Essential
Experience of risk management and governance Experience of writing and presenting complex reports for a range of audiences
Desirable
Evidence of delivery of quality improvement Experience of leading teams within complex services
Skills Essential
Excellent interpersonal skills and evidence of effective working relationships, skilled in negotiating, problem solving Demonstrable leadership and management skills Demonstrate effective time management skills Analytical and evaluation skills Resilient and ability to work under pressure with set deadlines Ability to manage competing priorities Quality Improvement Methodology Training
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
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Employer details Employer name University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Address Royal Derby Hospital
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
DE22 3NE
Employer's website https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)