Lead quality, drive standards, and make a lasting impact At Elysium Healthcare, delivering safe, high-quality care depends on strong leadership in governance and compliance. As a Governance and Compliance Manager, you will take ownership of key systems and processes that underpin quality, safety, and regulatory excellence across the hospital.
This is a pivotal role where you’ll not only coordinate activity, but actively drive compliance, hold teams to account, and influence continuous improvement.
What you will be doing:
You’ll lead on governance and compliance activity across the hospital, ensuring standards are consistently met, risks are managed, and improvements are embedded.
Compliance Leadership
- Lead and coordinate internal compliance inspections, ensuring readiness and accountability across services
- Oversee CQUIN delivery, tracking performance, challenging progress, and ensuring reporting requirements are met
- Take ownership of CQC preparation, submissions, and post-inspection action plans, driving timely completion
- Monitor appraisal and supervision compliance, escalating gaps and holding managers accountable
Governance Management
- Own the Clinical Governance framework, leading the coordination and effectiveness of monthly meetings
- Ensure high-quality reporting is produced, reviewed, and acted upon across Quality, KPIs, Complaints, and workforce metrics
- Present governance insights, highlighting risks, trends, and areas for improvement
- Ensure actions from governance forums are followed through and delivered
Reporting & Regulatory Assurance
- Take responsibility for the accuracy and timely submission of CQC notifications and NHS England reports
- Oversee incident reporting processes, ensuring Serious Incidents and safeguarding alerts are managed appropriately and escalated where required
- Act as a key link between internal teams and external stakeholders in relation to governance reporting
Quality & Continuous Improvement
- Lead on the use of dashboards and data to monitor performance, identify risks, and drive improvements
- Provide guidance and challenge to teams on quality metrics and performance standards
- Oversee Ward Quality Accounts, ensuring compliance and high-quality submissions
- Manage Quality Network Reviews, coordinating preparation, self-assessment, and follow-up actions
- Support clinical leaders in audit programmes, ensuring delivery, quality, and timeliness
- Carry out audits and spot checks to provide assurance and insight
Policies & Frameworks
- Take ownership of the policy management process, ensuring reviews are planned, completed, and compliant
- Maintain oversight of the policy register and ensure governance frameworks remain robust and up to date
What you will bring:
- Experience in a governance, compliance, or quality role within healthcare
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence, challenge, and hold others to account
- Confidence in interpreting and presenting data to drive decisions
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities
- A proactive approach with a focus on continuous improvement and high standards
What You’ll Get
At Elysium Healthcare, we believe in taking care of the people who care for others, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future:
- Competitive salary
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window.
- Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals
- Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance
- Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts
- Life Assurance, for added peace of mind
- Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
- 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be
- Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time
- Pension contribution, to help secure your future
- Free meals and onsite free parking
About your next employer:
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
