Clinical Governance Co-ordinator

Clinical Governance Co-ordinator

About the role

As Clinical Governance Co-ordinator, you will support the leadership team in the management and oversight of the hospice’s clinical governance framework. This will include helping to co-ordinate incident reporting and investigation processes, supporting audits and quality improvement activity, maintaining risk registers, assisting with policy development and preparing governance reports for committees and leadership teams.

You will also support compliance with internal assurance processes and regulatory standards, including CQC requirements, and help ensure that learning from incidents, complaints, feedback and audits is captured and shared effectively.

About you

We are looking for someone with a registered healthcare professional or relevant healthcare professional background, and an appropriate level of experience within a healthcare setting. You will have an understanding of clinical governance, audit, risk and quality processes, and experience of using a PSIRF approach.

You will be highly organised, confident working with information and able to analyse data and produce clear reports. Strong communication and IT skills are essential, as is the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across multidisciplinary teams and manage deadlines effectively.

Experience in hospice or palliative care, involvement in CQC inspections, quality improvement training, a degree-level qualification, or experience using SystmOne or similar systems would be an advantage.

What we offer

At St Catherine’s Hospice, you will be part of a compassionate, committed and values-led team, working together to provide outstanding care and support for people affected by life-shortening illness.

This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to patient safety, quality assurance and continuous improvement within a supportive hospice environment.

Benefits: Enjoy 36 days’ holiday (including bank holidays), an extra wellbeing day for your birthday, up to 8% employer pension contributions, Blue Light Card discounts, discounted on-site meals, career development opportunities, life insurance, and an employee assistance programme.

Key responsibilities include

• Supporting the management and oversight of clinical governance processes across the hospice.
• Co-ordinating incident reporting processes and supporting investigations.
• Assisting with audits, data collection and the reporting of quality metrics.
• Maintaining risk registers and supporting risk assessment processes.
• Supporting policy development, review and implementation.
• Monitoring compliance with CQC standards and internal assurance processes.
• Supporting complaints and feedback processes, ensuring learning is captured.
• Preparing governance reports for committees and leadership teams.
• Supporting training and awareness relating to governance and patient safety.
• Promoting a culture of continuous improvement, learning and openness.
• Supporting information governance and data quality standards.
• Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

How to apply

If you are committed to improving quality, safety and learning in care, and would like to use your skills to make a difference within a compassionate hospice environment, we would love to hear from you.

Application Deadline: 14th August 2026.

To apply for the role please send a covering letter and your CV to peopleteam@stcatherines.co.uk 

If you have not heard within 2 weeks of the closing date then on this occasion your application has not been successful but we thank you for your interest in working at St Catherine’s Hospice.

This position is subject to a DBS check.

All candidates must be able to demonstrate they are eligible to work in the UK.