Strategic Lead for Clinical & Quality Governance inIlford inIlford PUBLISHED MON 21 OCT 2024

Are you driven by a passion to make a difference to young people's lives? Barnardo's are looking for a registered healthcare professional to join our team asStrategic Lead for Clinical & Quality Governance.

Barnardo's ambition is to be a quality provider of integrated health and social care support contracts, increasing the reach of health and wellbeing services to reduce health inequalities in the communities we work in.

We're looking for a Clinical Quality and Governance Lead to support the Head of Safeguarding & Quality, in leading the development, delivery, and refinement of the clinical governance policy, framework, and practice as part of Children's Service operations.

The post holder will be required to:

• Lead the creation, design, delivery, and evaluation of anew Clinical Governance Frameworkas part of our Quality Governance Strategy on supporting mental health and integrated child and family health services for Children & Young People.
• Provide strategic leadership for clinical governance and quality, identifying and implementing assurance and compliance monitoring and improvement plans, alongside operational management.
• Support the Directorship in the development and delivery of strategies pertaining to clinical governance, risk management and quality improvement.
• Lead the clinical governance agenda and develop of robust systems in clinical governance and quality, underpinning safe clinical practice and fostering multidisciplinary working across the organisation.
• Lead on the implementation and delivery of a range of clinical governance activities within services to support performance reporting to commissioners.
• Supporting the organisation to meet the regulatory requirements of external standards and inspections.
• Support the development of assurance systems that identify evidence-based and quality practices in place throughout the organisationand that quality practice is disseminated widely across regions and nationally.
• Work with the new one Childrens Services Team and BDU (Business Development Unit) to identify how to meet all clinical governance requirements to commission and grow digital and new health and support services.

About us

Key Working Relationships:

Internal: Health Team, Children's Services colleagues, and key corporate stakeholders such as business development, audit and assurance, data and insight, policy, research and evaluation, media, and communications, digital, service design etc.

External: NHS, external Commissioners, Regulators of services, Public Health and the Voluntary and Community Sector.

Job Purpose: The Strategic Lead for Clinical Governance will support the Head of Safeguarding & Quality, Director of Health and key stakeholders across the organisation in leading the development, delivery, and refinement of several key programmes of work to embed the clinical governance policy, framework, and practice as part of Children's Service operations to achieve this ambition. The role requires overall understanding of Early Years and Integrated Child & Family Health alongside Mental Health support services, emerging service options, knowledge of demand, and leading practice.

The role will lead on policy development and implementation, to promote systemic improvements in clinical governance activity across all integrated health and care services. The post holder will contribute to the achievement of the CQC quality statements for services providing regulated activities (Health and Social Care Act 20Regulations 2, including the development, and embedding of assurance mechanisms to test these, developing, and delivering improvement methodologies to support both CQC compliance and high-quality care.

This role will support the delivery of the aims and objectives of the health pillars in our new corporate strategy.