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Job summary

Main area
Governance
Grade
and 7
Contract
12 months (Fixed term / secondment to July 2027)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
362-ADM7PAT-07-26
Employer
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Town
Stockport
Salary
£49,387 - £56,515 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/07/2026 23:59
Interview date
23/07/2026
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Deputy Governance & Quality Manager

and 7

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.

Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.

In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.

Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment

As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service).  If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.

 

 

Job overview

Deputy Governance & Quality Manager

Band 7 

37.5 hours 

Fixed term - 12 months 

You will support the Risk & Quality Manager in leading the promotion and facilitation of the development of effective governance, risk management, assurance and compliance management across the Division of Medicine & Urgent Care. 

You will be specifically responsible for the oversight and management of clinical governance management for the Urgent Care, delegated from the Governance & Quality Manager. 

You will support the Governance & Quality Manager in leading the provision and maintenance of the direct support to the whole Division with the co-ordination, implementation and delivery of the Divisional and Corporate governance agendas with a focus on patient safety. 

Main duties of the job

  •        Responsible for the clinical governance management for Urgent Care (Emergency Medicine and Acute and Frailty). This will include the delegated responsibility from the Governance & Quality Manager for the urgent care risk register, the patient safety incident investigation processes within urgent care, meeting papers production and ownership of escalation as required to the Divisional triumvirate and / or the Deputy Director of Quality Governance. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the Governance & Quality Manager is fully aware of urgent care’s governance.

     

    ·   Responsible for the monitoring of the Datix incident reporting system, approving incident reports and initiating / undertaking investigations as and where necessary and to the level required by the severity of the incident, escalating to the Governance & Quality Manager as required.

     

    ·    Responsible for leading patient safety incident investigations. This will entail highlighting cases for investigation, mini-initial analysis reports (rapid reviews), writing timelines, collating staff statements and conducting interviews and observation exercises as required and writing patient safety incident investigation reports. The investigation process could also include attending H.M. Coroner’s court to give evidence at an inquest into a patient’s death.

     

Working for our organisation

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

  • Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
  • NHS pension scheme membership
  • Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
  • NHS Staff discounts
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
  • Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focusses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded. 

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed. 

Person specification

Education & qualification

Essential criteria
  • Degree level qualification or equivalent knowledge & skills.
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
  • Clinical background with Registration to a Professional Body.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of Governance, Risk Management and the NHS quality agenda
  • Understanding of national patient safety strategy and context
  • Use of IT packages such as Excel, patient administration systems, the internet and the Trust’s intranet.
  • Ability to apply basic principles of Governance & Risk Management at a practical level.
  • Investigating tools.
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of medical terminology relevant to the role
  • Previous relevant NHS experience
  • Use of the Datix reporting system or similar system.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of investigating incidents including creating timelines and supporting fact finding / root cause analysis meetings
  • Experience of working to tight deadlines, setting priorities and dealing with a varied workload.
  • Experience of writing investigation reports
  • Ability to work on own initiative and make independent decisions.
Desirable criteria
  • Line management or supervision of staff
  • Leading patient safety investigations.
  • Experience of reviewing and improving systems within an NHS organisation.

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills (written, typed and verbal).
  • Computer literate with excellent keyboard skills
  • Ability to plan and organise own workload in response to demand
  • Ability to deal with all disciplines of staff and challenge where necessary.
  • Negotiation and influencing skills.
  • Commitment to achieving change.
  • Ability to research and retrieve information.
  • Methodical, organised, attention to detail.
  • Ability to respond in a rapidly changing and emotionally challenging environment whilst maintaining a good emotional balance.
Desirable criteria
  • Highly developed analytical skills.
  • Production of monitoring reports.
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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers

The vacancy may close early if it attracts a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Emma Crookes
Job title
Risk & Quality Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0161 419 4405

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