The Associate Clinical Lead – Governance & Patient Safety plays a pivotal leadership role in supporting the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective mental health services. Working closely with the Mental Health Division Clinical Lead and in collaboration with the Quality and Governance Lead, this role provides clinical leadership on matters related to patient safety, clinical governance, risk management, and continuous quality improvement.

The post holder will lead on the strategic implementation of clinical governance frameworks, ensure compliance with regulatory and best practice standards, and promote a culture of safety, learning, and accountability across multidisciplinary teams. They will support incident reviews, audits, and quality improvement initiatives, acting as a bridge between clinical services and governance structures.

• Provide clinical oversight in relation to patient safety, governance and service improvement across the Mental Health Division
• Directly report to the divisional clinical lead to manage and operationalise strategic vision in to services across the division
• Responsible for the implementation of delivery of high-quality clinical services to clients within the Mental Health Division.
• Leading on the transformation of services, service improvement plans and future service development within and beyond own area of practice.
• Provide advanced skills and leadership -c in line with division and trust strategy ordinating/leading patient safety, governance and quality improvement
• To work in partnership with operational managers, professional leads/ colleagues and service users to ensure delivery of contemporary services
• Maintain oversight of compliance with, and development of, clinical policies, procedures and guidelines to support the delivery of safe an effective care and interventions.
• Support the delivery of good governance and local audit within the service.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and contribute to the systematic governance of practice within the Division

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• Provide clinical oversight in relation to patient safety, governance and service improvement across the Mental Health Division
• Directly report to the divisional clinical lead to manage and operationalise strategic vision in to services across the division
• Responsible for the implementation of delivery of high-quality clinical services to clients within the Mental Health Division.
• Leading on the transformation of services, service improvement plans and future service development within and beyond own area of practice.
• Provide advanced skills and leadership -c in line with division and trust strategy ordinating/leading patient safety, governance and quality improvement
• To work in partnership with operational managers, professional leads/ colleagues and service users to ensure delivery of contemporary services
• Maintain oversight of compliance with, and development of, clinical policies, procedures and guidelines to support the delivery of safe an effective care and interventions.
• Support the delivery of good governance and local audit within the service.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and contribute to the systematic governance of practice within the Divisio