Job Description
Job Overview
The Governance & Quality Assurance Co‑ordinator plays a vital role in supporting the delivery of safe, effective and person‑centred care across the Mental Health (MH) Directorate. Working within the Directorate Governance Team, the post holder contributes to a wide range of governance, patient safety and quality improvement activities. This includes supporting clinical audit, risk management, external assurance and internal governance processes to ensure high standards of safety, learning and regulatory compliance.
A key focus of this role is coordinating incident investigation processes in line with Trust policies and the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework. This includes overseeing investigation administration, supporting sign‑off processes, ensuring robust action plans, and leading on evidence collation to demonstrate learning and improvement and supporting the Coroner's process. The post also provides expert advice to clinical and non‑clinical staff on governance processes and obligations such as Duty of Candour. Working both independently and as part of a multi‑disciplinary governance team, the post holder must manage competing priorities, maintain attention to detail, and support MH services in embedding a culture of continuous improvement and learning
Contact Details:
Ola Fatuga, Olajumoke.fatuga@nhs.net, 07471 111343
Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)
PATIENT SAFETY INVESTIGTIONS:
- Working with the Corporate Patient Safety Team (CPST), operational and clinical staff within DMH to ensure incident investigations are completed in line with Trust Policy and Patient Safety Incident Response Framework regulations
- Development and maintenance of appropriate administration systems, databases and reliable input of data
- Support the oversight of the directorate incident investigation sign-off process
- Provision of expert knowledge and advice of the incident investigation systems and processes to clinical and non-clinical directorate staff
- To lead on the timely collation of action plan evidence for all completed incident investigations across DMH
- To lead on meeting legal requirements for Duty of Candour and Being Open
- Act as the link between the LPT Legal team and the directorate to ensure the Coroner's process is completed to expected standard
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.