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Job summary
Lead the Way in Governance, Quality & Compliance!
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional professional to drive excellence and safeguard standards across our maternity and neonatal services. If you’re passionate about quality, compliance, and making a real impact, this is your opportunity to shine.
As Lead for Governance, Quality Assurance and Compliance, you will provide strategic leadership and assurance that perinatal services consistently meet national and local quality standards. This pivotal role ensures robust governance frameworks, risk management, and compliance processes are embedded across maternity and neonatal services. You will work closely with senior leaders, clinicians, and governance teams to champion safety, quality improvement, and regulatory adherence.
What We’re Looking For:
- Registered Nurse or Midwife with broad clinical experience.
- Proven leadership in governance, quality assurance, or compliance within maternity services.
- Strong analytical, decision-making, and communication skills.
- Ability to influence, negotiate, and lead across multidisciplinary teams.
Main duties of the job
- Strategic Leadership: Deliver oversight of quality assurance and governance across maternity and neonatal services, ensuring compliance with national standards such as CNST MIS, Ockenden recommendations, and Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle.
- Governance & Risk: Develop integrated risk management systems, oversee PSIRF processes, and ensure timely investigation and learning from incidents.
- Quality Improvement: Identify areas for improvement, lead projects, and support implementation of best practice.
- Data & Reporting: Analyse qualitative and quantitative data, produce reports for committees, and ensure effective use of digital technology for compliance monitoring.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal teams and external bodies including commissioners, quality networks, and regulators.
- Education & Training: Contribute to governance training, support audits, and promote continuous professional development.
- Financial & Resource Management: Manage allocated budgets and deliver efficiencies in line with Trust objectives.
About us
At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we’re committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:
- Flexible working options to help you balance work and life
- NHS pension scheme for long-term financial security
- Generous annual leave allowance to recharge and relax
- A strong focus on career development to help you grow and achieve your potential
Additionally, you’ll gain access to our Blue Light Card, unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work.
We are proud to foster a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.
Why Somerset? Somerset offers the perfect blend of idyllic countryside, outstanding areas of natural beauty, and breathtaking coastlines, with vibrant cities like Bristol, Bath, and Exeter just a short drive away – and only two hours to London.
The region is home to excellent educational facilities, and with affordable housing compared to other parts of the country, it’s a great place to build both your career and your future.
Somerset truly has it all – the peaceful countryside and cosmopolitan city life, with something for everyone to enjoy.
To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.
