Band 8a Divisional Governance Lead

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Children and Families Division to lead the governance Team to ensure high quality care and processes are in place within the services. The post holder will:

• Lead and manage the extensive clinical governance, wider governance and assurance programme across the Children and Families Division, which includes a wide range of projects and work streams relating to risk management, health & safety, patient safety, information governance and the Care Quality Commission Standards of Quality and Safety.
• Lead, plan, support, facilitate and monitor progress of governance projects and has responsibility for the design, development and delivery of associated in-house training.
• Lead on developing and maintaining the Children and Families Division's risk assessments, risk register and incident reporting systems.
• Manage the Children and Families Division complaint systems in line with NHS and Trust legislation, policies and procedures

Governance and Assurance

• Lead and manage the governance programme and framework across the Children and Families Division
• Responsible for the continuing development of risk management within the Children and Families Division according to its needs and the Trust Risk Management Strategy
• The postholder is the Children and Families Division Incident Reporting Co-ordinator
• Lead for managing the internal systems and processes to review, assess and monitor child death and safeguarding cases

Complaint Management

• To manage the Children and Families Division complaint systems in line with NHS and Trust legislation, policies and procedures

Information Governance, Subject Access and Freedom of Information Requests

• To manage the division's compliance with Information Governance legislation and Trust Policies

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

The post holder will lead and manage the extensive clinical governance, wider governance and assurance programme across the Children and Families Division, which includes a wide range of projects and work streams relating to risk management, health & safety, patient safety, information governance and the Care Quality Commission Standards of Quality and Safety.

The post-holder will lead, plan, support, facilitate and monitor progress of governance projects and has responsibility for the design, development and delivery of associated in-house training.

The post holder will lead on developing and maintaining the Children and Families Division's risk assessments, risk register and incident reporting systems.

The post-holder will manage the Children and Families Division complaint systems in line with NHS and Trust legislation, policies and procedures

Line management of Clinical Governance Manager, Clinical Governance Facilitator and Clinical Governance Coordinator, as well as ad hoc temporary support staff and apprenticeships.

Budget manager for clinical Governance budget with a value of approximately £200,000

• Experience of working at band 7 in a clinical governance team

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.