Associate Director of Clinical Governance & Effectiveness | North London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£85,641 - £97,746 Per annum including HCAS
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, N15 3TH
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	27 Oct 2026
Closing date:	26 Nov 2026

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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.

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 aregistered 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.

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:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. 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.

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

This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Nov 2026

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