Clinical Governance Advisor
Closing date: 02 June 2026
The Clinical Governance Advisor plays a key role in supporting and promoting patient safety, clinical governance, and risk management across the Surgical Services Division. Working autonomously and in collaboration with clinical and managerial teams, the post holder will provide expert advice, guidance, and operational support to ensure high standards of safe, effective, and patient‑centred care.
The role involves supporting incident management and investigation, risk assessment and mitigation, audit activity, and compliance with national and local patient safety requirements. The Clinical Governance Advisor will analyse patient safety data, identify trends, and help implement improvements in practice, while fostering a positive culture of learning, openness, and continuous improvement.
The post holder will also support staff involved in incidents, complaints, and Coroners processes, contribute to training and education, and represent the Division at relevant governance forums.
This position requires strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills, alongside the ability to manage a varied workload and engage effectively with staff at all levels.
Main duties of the job
* Promote and support patient safety and clinical governance activity across the Division.
* Lead and support the management of incidents, investigations, and action plans.
* Support the development, maintenance, and review of risk registers and risk assessments.
* Analyse incident and safety data, identifying trends and areas for improvement.
* Provide expert advice and support to staff at all levels on governance, risk, and patient safety.
* Contribute to audits, quality improvement initiatives, and divisional governance meetings.
* Support staff involved in incidents, complaints, and Coroners inquests.
* Deliver and support training in risk management and patient safety.
* Deputise for the Clinical Governance Facilitator as required.
* Support business units with all patient safety management activities.
* Monitor incidents and risks.
* Implement and evaluate changes in practice to improve patient safety and patient and staff experience.
* Production of high quality, formal written reports with a high level of detail and accuracy.
* Facilitation of meetings and ability to influence people at all levels within the Trust.
* Receipt and communication of sensitive and complex information following an incident and investigation that may involve patients/relatives and or staff and may prove detrimental to them.
* Networking.
* Representation of division at Trust wide meetings.
* Provide training for staff with regard to risk management and patient safety.
Benefits
* Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development.
* Ongoing support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
* Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.
Qualifications
* NMC registration or clinical professional qualification.
* Teaching and assessing qualification.
* Degree or management qualification.
* Risk management qualification.
Experience
* Knowledge and application of risk assessment.
* Specialist experience in governance and risk.
* PSIRF experience.
Skills
* Clinical Leadership skills.
* Quality improvement skills.
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.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
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