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Job Title: Care Group QS Governance Manager for Mental Health

Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes 

Salary Range: £83,223.23  to £87,989.26 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Full time/Part Time: Full Time 

Term Time only post: No 

Advert Closing Date: 22/02/2026 

Job Purpose

The Care Group Quality & Safety Governance Manager is responsible for leading and promoting the clinical governance agenda across the Mental Health Care Group. The role provides the strategic and operational oversight needed to ensure that services deliver safe, effective, high‑quality care, and that all quality & safety governance systems are embedded, monitored, and continually improved.

Key aspects of the role include:

  • Driving and embedding the Quality & Safety Strategy across the care group.
  • Providing specialist guidance on safety frameworks, quality improvement, clinical audit, RCA, Duty of Candour, and incident review processes.
  • Developing governance processes, policies, and “governance champions” to support a culture of learning and just culture.
  • Leading and analysing data from safety events, audits, and reviews to support organisational learning.
  • Supporting preparedness for external accreditation, regulation, and inspection.

The ideal candidate will have:

  • A professional Health and/or Social Care qualification (e.g., Registered Nurse, Paramedic, ODP).
  • Educated to degree level.
  • Extensive experience in health or community care in a senior position.
  • Desirable: postgraduate study in Patient Safety, Human Factors, or Quality Improvement.

 

Interviews will be held the last week of February  2026 

Job Overview

Responsible for leading and promoting the clinical governance agenda across the Mental Health Care Group, working within an integrated system of care groups to support, embed, monitor and review the delivery of safe and effective care in every service.

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Jersey Public Service Careers

 

Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.

 

To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.

 

For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.

 

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