Are you passionate about helping to improve patient care and experience? Does the word Governance fill you with interest and energy? If so, this could be the job for you......

We are looking to recruit an experienced Governance Manager to support the Head of Governance for the Surgery, Theatres, Neurosciences and Cancer Division here at St George's Hospital to cover maternity leave for 12 months.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities include:

• review and follow up on all patient safety and risk issues for the Division
• production of reports and presentations both on a monthly and adhoc basis
• analysis and presentation of data and information
• triangulation of patient safety data to ensure divisional focus is appropriate to risk
• management and update of the risk register, GP alerts and incidents
• representation at Care Group, Directorate, Divisional and Trust meetings
• facilitation of Divisional management meetings

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Governance Experience

Essential

• Able to demonstrate fully understands the principles of governance

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate that has a key understanding of governance

Organisational skills

Essential

• Able to demonstrate excellent organisational skills and a good grasp of reporting

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate good organisational skills and grasp of reporting

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's Hospital, Tooting

Tooting, London

SW17 0QT

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