Associate Director of Clinical Governance & Effectiveness
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North London NHS Foundation Trust Associate Director of Clinical Governance & Effectiveness
The closing date is 10 November 2026
Job summary
Are you an experienced healthcare leader passionate about clinical governance, evidence-based practice and improving the quality of care?
We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director of Clinical Governance & Effectiveness to join the senior Nursing Directorate leadership team at North London NHS Foundation Trust.
We are seeking an exceptional senior healthcare leader to join North London NHS Foundation Trust. 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, ensuring that evidence and learning are translated into measurable improvements in the quality of care.
Reporting to the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, this newly created Trust-wide role will provide strategic leadership for clinical governance, clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, quality intelligence and regulatory assurance.
You 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.
Main duties of the job
The role
Working with clinical, operational and corporate leads, you will:
Lead the Trust's clinical governance and clinical effectiveness framework.
Strengthen the triangulation of quality intelligence to support effective assurance, learning and improvement.
Provide leadership for regulatory compliance and readiness, including CQC comprehensive assessment and reviews.
Lead delivery of the Trust's Culture of Learning Framework on behalf of the DCNO, ensuring learning is translated into sustainable improvement.
Provide clear, evidence-based quality and governance assurance to senior leaders, Executive committees and the Board
About you
You will be a registered healthcare professional with significant senior leadership experience in the NHS or a comparable healthcare setting.
You 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.
We are particularly looking for a leader who is credible, collaborative, curious and improvement-focused, with the confidence to provide constructive challenge, influence at senior level and build strong relationships across professional and organisational boundaries.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Details
Date posted
03 November 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8c
Salary
£85,641 to £97,746 a year Per annum including HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
455-NLFT-8367566
Job locations
North London NHS Foundation Trust
St. Ann's Road
London
N15 3TH
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
Why join us?
This is an excellent opportunity to shape a newly created role and influence how we use governance, evidence and quality intelligence to improve care across North London NHS Foundation Trust.
If you are passionate about moving clinical governance beyond compliance and using evidence, learning and insight to make a measurable difference to patient care, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Join us and help ensure that evidence drives improvement, learning leads to change, and our governance arrangements support consistently high-quality care.
We reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised in the event that we receive a high volume of applications
Job description
Job responsibilities
Why join us?
This is an excellent opportunity to shape a newly created role and influence how we use governance, evidence and quality intelligence to improve care across North London NHS Foundation Trust.
If you are passionate about moving clinical governance beyond compliance and using evidence, learning and insight to make a measurable difference to patient care, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Join us and help ensure that evidence drives improvement, learning leads to change, and our governance arrangements support consistently high-quality care.
We reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised in the event that we receive a high volume of applications
Person Specification
Professional qualification and senior-level expertise
Essential
- Registered healthcare professional with current UK professional registration and a Master's degree or equivalent senior-level experience, with evidence of continued professional development relevant to quality, governance, clinical effectiveness or healthcare leadership.
Senior strategic leadership experience
Essential
- Significant senior leadership experience within the NHS or a comparable healthcare provider, with evidence of successfully leading complex Trust-wide or organisation-wide quality, governance, assurance or improvement programmes and influencing senior clinical and operational leaders.
Clinical governance and clinical effectiveness
Essential
- Substantial experience of leading clinical governance and clinical effectiveness systems, including clinical audit, quality assurance and the use of evidence and standards to drive measurable improvement in care.
Regulatory assurance and CQC experience
Essential
- Significant experience of regulatory compliance and assurance, including direct experience of CQC inspections, reviews or regulatory engagement, with a strong understanding of CQC requirements and the wider NHS quality and regulatory environment.
Quality intelligence, triangulation and risk
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of analysing and triangulating complex quality intelligence from multiple sources to identify themes, emerging risks and priorities, and translating findings into effective assurance, learning and improvement.
Executive and Board-level assurance
Essential
- Significant experience of producing and presenting high-quality governance, quality and assurance reports to Executive Directors, Board Committees and/or Trust Boards, with the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information clearly and provide credible professional advice and challenge.
Professional qualification and senior-level expertise
Essential
- Registered healthcare professional with current UK professional registration and a Master's degree or equivalent senior-level experience, with evidence of continued professional development relevant to quality, governance, clinical effectiveness or healthcare leadership.
Senior strategic leadership experience
Essential
- Significant senior leadership experience within the NHS or a comparable healthcare provider, with evidence of successfully leading complex Trust-wide or organisation-wide quality, governance, assurance or improvement programmes and influencing senior clinical and operational leaders.
Clinical governance and clinical effectiveness
Essential
- Substantial experience of leading clinical governance and clinical effectiveness systems, including clinical audit, quality assurance and the use of evidence and standards to drive measurable improvement in care.
Regulatory assurance and CQC experience
Essential
- Significant experience of regulatory compliance and assurance, including direct experience of CQC inspections, reviews or regulatory engagement, with a strong understanding of CQC requirements and the wider NHS quality and regulatory environment.
Quality intelligence, triangulation and risk
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of analysing and triangulating complex quality intelligence from multiple sources to identify themes, emerging risks and priorities, and translating findings into effective assurance, learning and improvement.
Executive and Board-level assurance
Essential
- Significant experience of producing and presenting high-quality governance, quality and assurance reports to Executive Directors, Board Committees and/or Trust Boards, with the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information clearly and provide credible professional advice and challenge.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
North London NHS Foundation Trust
St. Ann's Road
London
N15 3TH
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
North London NHS Foundation Trust
St. Ann's Road
London
N15 3TH
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
PA and Quality Governance Support Officer
Yvette People
Details
Date posted
03 November 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8c
Salary
£85,641 to £97,746 a year Per annum including HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
455-NLFT-8367566
Job locations
North London NHS Foundation Trust
St. Ann's Road
London
N15 3TH
United Kingdom
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