Clinical Governance Facilitator | The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£32,073 - £39,043 per annum, pro rata if part-time.
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Birmingham, B31 2AP
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	15 Sept 2026
Closing date:	16 Oct 2026

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Summary

What is Governance - Governance at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (ROH) refers to the systems, structures and processes used to ensure that the organisation is well led, accountable, financially sustainable, and provides safe, effective, and high-quality patient care.

Clinical governance is particularly important within ROH because it ensures that clinical services are safe, evidence-based, and continually improving. This includes monitoring incidents, complaints, patient experience, clinical outcomes, and compliance with professional and regulatory standards.

In summary, ROH's governance framework aims to ensure that decisions are made appropriately, risks are identified and managed, resources are used effectively, and patients receive safe and high-quality orthopaedic care.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be required to complete a 30-minute written governance test before your interview.

· Responsible for working with Divisional Head of Nursing and Clinical Governance Lead to facilitate the bi-weekly divisional governance meetings. This includes organising and attending a pre-meet in order to agree incidents for escalation and agree agenda, collating and disseminating papers and reports for the meeting; and presenting and facilitating the patient safety incident and risk aspect of the agenda.

· Responsible for facilitating the completion of PSIRF learning responses, including support and advice to learning response authors, proofreading responses, identification and monitoring of actions, and the facilitation and writing up of SWARMS.

· Responsible for creating and presenting patient safety and risk register incident reports for a wide variety of specialty meetings, boards and committees, and completion of relevant actions and updates following.

· Responsible for presentation of Governance aspects of training.

· Responsible for provision of training to all staff on the use of the Trust’s patient safety incident reporting system.

· Responsible for day-to-day maintenance of the Trust’s patient safety incident reporting system, risk register module and Complaints module.

· Assist with the dissemination of learning from patient safety incidents, including follow up of actions.

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest specialist orthopaedic units in Europe. We offer planned orthopaedic surgery to people locally, nationally and internationally.

Our Trust is a very special hospital; big enough to deliver world class services and small enough to offer exceptional patient and staff experience. We offer a working experience unique in the West Midlands and we're always on the lookout for passionate people to join our award-winning team.

The ROH is an equal opportunities employer. We employ people of difference and are committed to growing an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated, and people feel able to bring their whole and authentic self to work.

We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a range of inclusive, family friendly and flexible working arrangements and policies, to support our people in the workplace. Flexible working requests will be considered.

The Trust is committed to the Disability Confident Interview Scheme and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy and consider them on their abilities.

If you have a disability and need any support with your application or require any reasonable adjustments to be implemented please do get in touch with the Recruiting Manager for this position so that the team can support you.

Why choose The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital:

Meaningful impact on patient safety and quality: Clinical Governance is central to monitoring clinical risk, patient safety, quality of care and patient experience at ROH. The Trust’s governance structures provide oversight of clinical risks and the effectiveness of actions taken to mitigate them.

Opportunity to learn from real clinical data:Governance work brings together areas such as, incidents, complaints, risk management, and quality improvement.

A specialist orthopaedic environment: ROH is a specialist orthopaedic centre, so applicants can gain experience in governance within a highly focused clinical setting.

Exposure to multidisciplinary working:Governance requires collaboration between clinicians, nurses, managers, patients, and other professional groups. Working in this environment can help to develop communication, organisation, analytical and problem-solving skills.

This advert closes on Sunday 27 Sep 2026

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