Associate Director of Clinical Governance & Effectiveness

We are seeking an exceptional senior healthcare leader to join North London NHS Foundation Trust as an Associate Director of Clinical Governance & Effectiveness. This newly created Band 8c role provides a unique opportunity to shape our Trust-wide approach to clinical governance, clinical audit & effectiveness, quality intelligence and regulatory assurance. The successful candidate will lead the development and delivery of our clinical governance and clinical effectiveness arrangements, ensuring that intelligence from clinical audit, incidents, complaints, patient experience, safeguarding, mortality, regulatory activity and other sources is brought together to identify emerging themes, risks and opportunities for improvement. Key responsibilities include: Leading the Trust's clinical governance and clinical effectiveness framework Strengthening the triangulation of quality intelligence to support effective assurance, learning and improvement Providing leadership for regulatory compliance and readiness, including CQC comprehensive assessment and reviews Leading delivery of the Trust's Culture of Learning Framework Providing clear, evidence-based quality and governance assurance to senior leaders, Executive committees and the Board The ideal candidate will be a registered healthcare professional with significant senior leadership experience in the NHS or a comparable healthcare setting. They will bring substantial experience of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness, quality assurance and regulatory compliance, together with the ability to interpret complex quality information and translate it into clear priorities and action. Benefits of working with us include: Leadership behaviours and managers programme Flexible working and health and wellbeing initiatives NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme Excellent internal staff network Salary: £85,641 to £97,746 a year, per annum including HCAS Job Data by YubHub .