Divisional Clinical Governance Manager - WAC Division | East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

The Divisional Clinical Governance Manager is a key role in the divisional leadership team and provides strategic and operational leadership for all aspects of clinical governance across the Division, ensuring safe, effective, and person‑centred care. The Divisional Clinical Governance Manager line manages the Divisional Clinical Governance Team.

The Divisional Clinical Governance Manager will promote the vision and values of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, leading by example and ensuring that they demonstrate those values in their leadership behaviours and how we support our teams and deliver our services.

The Divisional Clinical Governance Manager will lead the governance framework (patient safety, risk management, quality improvement, audit, NICE compliance, mortality review, patient experience, complaints and claims learning, and regulatory readiness).

The Divisional Clinical Governance Manager supports and challenges Divisional leadership to assure quality and reduce harm, providing high‑quality analysis, insight, and improvement methodology.

The Divisional Clinical Governance Manager ensures the Trust clinical governance processes are effectively implemented within the Division, including, incident management, duty of candour compliance, inquests, management of risk registers, CQC preparedness, clinical audit and effectiveness, patient experience and feedback, policy management, and timely implementation and closure of all related action.

• Lead and develop governance, quality, safety, and risk management processes across all of Women and Children’s Services, ensuring compliance with national guidance, regulatory standards, and best practice.
• Provide strategic leadership for the Governance Team, fostering a just culture and continuous quality improvement.
• Ensure services are inspection-ready and compliant with requirements from CQC, CNST, NHSE, NICE, MBRRACE-UK, RCOG, HSE and other regulatory bodies.
• Lead patient safety, risk management, incident investigation, and learning activities, including PSIRF processes, AARs, MDT reviews, PSIIs, and Perinatal Mortality Reviews.
• Monitor all governance performance using qualitative and quantitative data, manage risk registers, oversee action plans, and present assurance reports to Directorate, Trust, and external committees.
• Provide expert advice on governance, patient safety, clinical effectiveness, quality improvement, and risk management.
• Work collaboratively with clinical leaders, PMAs, PNAs, patient advocacy groups and multidisciplinary teams to improve patient experience and outcomes.
• Support litigation management, complaints, investigations, and Duty of Candour requirements
• Ensure governance-related learning, training, and quality improvement initiatives are identified, implemented, and evaluated.
• Manage and develop staff through recruitment, appraisal, performance management, attendance monitoring, and professional development

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.

There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.

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This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Nov 2026