Band 9 Group Director of Quality and Assurance

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an outstanding Group Director of Quality and Assurance to provide strategic leadership across our Group, ensuring robust quality governance, risk management and assurance arrangements that underpin world-class care.

Accountable to the Group Chief Nurse, you will operate at executive level, shaping and delivering the Trust's quality and risk strategies, providing Board-level assurance, and leading a high-performing team responsible for patient safety, clinical governance, risk, legal services and health and safety.

This is a pivotal leadership role for an individual with credibility, influence and a deep commitment to improving safety, experience and outcomes for patients and staff., The postholder provides executive leadership for quality, patient safety, clinical governance and risk management across the Royal Free London Group. Accountable to the Group Chief Nurse, the role leads the development and delivery of the Trust's Quality Strategy and assurance framework, ensuring national standards, regulatory requirements and best practice are embedded.

The role leads ward-to-Board quality governance, ensuring effective systems for incident reporting, investigation, learning and improvement, supported by high-quality dashboards and triangulated intelligence. The post holder holds responsibility for patient safety, clinical risk, legal services and health and safety, and acts as the senior lead for CQC readiness and inspection. Working closely with Directors of Nursing, they ensure consistent application of quality and assurance processes across hospital and community services, while maintaining strong relationships with regulators, commissioners and system partners.

As a senior corporate leader, the postholder contributes to strategic and operational leadership, deputising for the Chief Nurse as required and ensuring quality and risk are central to decision-making and service transformation. The role leads the Quality and Safety directorate, promotes a fair and just culture, and provides visible clinical and professional leadership to drive continuous improvement in safety, effectiveness and experience.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.