Associate Head of Governance and Risk

HCA Laboratories are currently recruiting for an Associate Head of Governance and Risk to join their growing team.

HCA Laboratories has over 35 years experience in providing pathology services, for acute care in our HCA Hospitals, IVF Clinics, Insurance work, healthcare screening and GP services. We cover all disciplines in pathology including allergy, biochemistry and endocrinology, haematology and blood transfusion, histopathology and cytology, immunology, and microbiology and serology, with each laboratory equipped with the best available analytical instrumentation.

Main duties of the job

• Deputise for the Head of Governance as required.
• Provide direction for the facility to ensure a patient focused quality governance agenda is defined and reported via reports and presentations to the Senior Management Team.
• Responsible for ensuring that quality and risk management is embedded throughout the laboratory by providing support, advice and guidance on all aspects of quality governance.
• To support the Head of Governance to ensure management of all complaints is effective and transparent in line with legislation is open, transparent, and responsive and meets the duty of candour and that learning from complaints is disseminated across all areas.
• To maintain robust relationships with key stakeholders, developing a system of quality assurance and monitoring.
• To support the Head of Governance in providing strategic leadership and direction to the governance team.
• To lead on root cause analysis for serious incidents. Develop and ensure effective mechanisms are in place for learning from serious incidents to encourage a patient focused learning culture.
• Ensuring that the Senior Leadership Team is advised in a timely manner of high-risk incidents, or matters that might have a substantial impact on patient safety, staff safety or reputation of the HCA Healthcare UK.
• To ensure that risk registers are kept up to date and effectively used to drive the implementation of the HCA Laboratories Division and Healthcare UK strategy, and supports the Corporate Governance Framework.

Job responsibilities

Associate Head of Governance and Risk London, HCA Laboratories (Shropshire House) Full time, 37.5 hours per week Permanent Salary: Competitive dependent upon experience

Duties & responsibilities:

• Deputise for the Head of Governance as required.
• Provide direction for the facility to ensure a patient focused quality governance agenda is defined and reported via reports and presentations to the Senior Management Team.
• Responsible for ensuring that quality and risk management is embedded throughout the laboratory by providing support, advice and guidance on all aspects of quality governance.
• To support the Head of Governance to ensure management of all complaints is effective and transparent in line with legislation is open, transparent, and responsive and meets the duty of candour and that learning from complaints is disseminated across all areas.
• To maintain robust relationships with key stakeholders, developing a system of quality assurance and monitoring.
• To support the Head of Governance in providing strategic leadership and direction to the governance team.
• To lead on root cause analysis for serious incidents. Develop and ensure effective mechanisms are in place for learning from serious incidents to encourage a patient focused learning culture.
• Ensuring that the Senior Leadership Team is advised in a timely manner of high-risk incidents, or matters that might have a substantial impact on patient safety, staff safety or reputation of the HCA Healthcare UK.
• To ensure that risk registers are kept up to date and effectively used to drive the implementation of the HCA Laboratories Division and Healthcare UK strategy, and supports the Corporate Governance Framework.
• The role holder will advocate and sponsor risk control and prevention strategies that integrate risk management practices into everyday management.
• To lead on the implementation, ongoing assessment and development of the CQC standards, working closely with the Head of Governance, laboratory teams and senior managers to ensure broad based understanding and ownership.
• To deliver training and/or facilitation to others as part of this process, and set up performance monitoring and assurance processes to track progress and achievement.
• To liaise closely with key stakeholders to ensure all internal and external compliance schemes are embedded and monitored within HCA Laboratories.
• Review, summarize and advise about national guidance and legislation and work closely with the Head of Governance to develop governance assurance frameworks; information and guidance in order to support service development and delivery.
• Support and facilitate the implementation of the HCA Healthcare UK Business Continuity and Health, Safety & Wellbeing policies and any other corporate policies that may be applicable to the Laboratory Division.

What you will bring:

• Extensive experience as a Laboratory Quality Manager
• Experience in risk management and Laboratory health and safety
• Understanding ISO15189, ISO15190 and ISO22367
• Qualification in Laboratory Quality Management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.