Quality and Governance Lead

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

4/1/2025

Do you have experience in service improvement?

Are you have strong analytical skills?

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Quality and Governance Lead to play a key role in ensuring the highest standards of clinical quality and patient safety across our Mental Health Directorates.

As an integral member of the directorates' senior team, you will provide expert guidance on quality governance, working closely with the Trust’s corporate quality and governance teams. You will lead the development and implementation of robust clinical governance arrangements, ensuring that incidents, complaints, and patient feedback are effectively reported, reviewed, and used to drive meaningful learning and improvement.

This is a unique opportunity to make a real impact on the quality of care provided across our Mental Health Directorates. If you have a strong background in clinical governance, a passion for patient safety, and the ability to lead change within a complex healthcare setting, we would love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Leading the development and production of directorate quality and safety reports for Trust-wide and directorate meetings.
• Supporting the Clinical Director, Head of Nursing, and Service Director on patient safety and wider clinical quality issues.
• Overseeing complaints, serious incident investigations, CQC compliance, audits, and NICE guidelines to support service excellence.
• Embedding a culture of learning through quality improvement methodology and supporting the delivery of the Trust-wide clinical governance and patient safety agenda.
• Providing leadership on patient experience and involvement, ensuring service user feedback informs continuous improvement.
  
  

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Natalie Cleveland Job title: Associate Director of Nursing Telephone number: 01865 902759

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.