Job summary
- Main area
- Quality Governance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (secondment opportunity available)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (To be agreed)
- Job ref
- 362-A-26-7598691
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Hill Hospital
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 pro rata per anumn
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Governance and Quality Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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
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The post holder will lead and develop a system of clinical governance management as part of an integrated organisational governance framework and promote a patient-centred, learning and safety culture across all services provided by the Division of Clinical Support Services. The post-holder will support the management of risk at all levels across the Division and be a key member of the Divisional Quality Group. The post-holder will provide specialist advice to support the Divisional Managers to meet quality standards, risk, and incident management standards appropriate to their speciality. The post holder will support with incident management and investigation in line with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework in line with organisational plans. The post-holder will work within a larger Integrated Governance Team including other Divisional Governance and Quality Managers, with the aim of shared learning. The post-holder will also support the central risk and safety teams to ensure compliance with regard to key metrics is met. Before applying for a secondment opportunity please familiarise yourself with the Trust secondment policy (found on the intranet) and ensure that you have discussed and gained approval from your current line manager |
Main duties of the job
Work independently; Implementing clinical governance procedures (including but not limited to Patient Safety Incident Investigation (PSII) reporting and investigation, and incident reporting) ensuring these meet NHS and Trust requirements (e.g. Patient Safety Incident Response Framework, PSIRF) and are efficient in capturing, recording and securing information and effective in identifying learning outcomes, action planning and identifying changes to services and service delivery.
Develop a ‘quality culture’ by providing advice, support and education on quality, governance and risk management issues to all staff at all levels across the Division. This includes supporting the transition of the Division from SI Framework (2015) to the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
Promote team working across the Division, ensuring clinical and non-clinical teams adopt a multidisciplinary team approach to complaint and incident resolution and work effectively to identify and minimise risk.
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
In addition to the main duties above.
Ensure compliance with all necessary legislation, external inspection, professional standards and local policies.
Support the Divisional staff with regards to inquest preparation, statement provision and attendance if required along with co-ordinating lessons learned statements and responses for issues raised by HM Coroner such as prevention of future death (regulation 28) reports.
Support and monitor alerts and freedom of information requests.
Develop and contribute to the development of policies and procedures, care pathways and service development.
Be the Division link with the Trust Risk and Safety department.
Manage, lead and develop the Divisional Governance Team.
Provide support with PSIIs and learning responses for other Divisional Governance & Quality Managers, when required.
Work collaboratively with colleagues across Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, to achieve the objectives of the Quality Governance Teams and both Trusts.
Before applying for a secondment opportunity please familiarise yourself with the Trust secondment policy (found on the intranet) and ensure that you have discussed and gained approval from your current line manager
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Relevant first degree or equivalent experience
- • Management / leadership qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- • Registered healthcare professional
- • Computer based qualification/project
- • Relevant Masters level qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Extensive knowledge of working practices in an Acute Trust both within the community and hospital environment
- • A sound knowledge of the principles of quality management
- • Understanding of the importance and application of external guidance, governance and improvement initiatives e.g. NPSA, NHSLA, NICE, SI Framework, PSIRF.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Documented evidence of management experience
- • Demonstrable success in working for a complex organisation including experieo Protocol/policy development and implementation o Governance and risk o Delivery and implementation of QA systems across a wide multidisciplinary audience nce in:
- • Demonstrate achievements in change management in NHS
Desirable criteria
- • Previous experience in improvement projects e.g. LEAN
- • Demonstrate achievements in change management in NHS
- • Evidence of clinical IT system usage
skill and Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Documented evidence of good organisational skills with the ability to problem solve/negotiate
- • Managerial and leadership experience and skills
- • Able to act on and communicate confidential and complex information in stressful environments
- • Able to influence, even within a complex and challenging environment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Waseem Munir
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Quality Governance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 419 4315
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