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Quality Assurance Support

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL £25,760 – £27,476 a year Permanent Posted 27 August 2026 Apply by 10 September 2026

Home Office register entry: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottinghamshire

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Role description

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and highly organised Quality Governance Facilitator professional to join our Governance Support Unit. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in supporting the Trust's quality, safety and governance agenda, helping to ensure the delivery of outstanding patient care across our services. Working alongside experienced governance professionals, you will contribute to clinical risk management, organisational learning, Duty of Candour compliance, governance reporting and quality assurance activities. The role offers a varied workload with opportunities to develop skills in data analysis, report production, meeting administration, governance systems and quality improvement. If you are a motivated individual with strong administrative and IT skills, excellent attention to detail and a passion for supporting high-quality healthcare, we would love to hear from you. Join Team SFH and help make a real difference to patient safety, quality and continuous improvement across the Trust.

We are looking for individuals who are committed to our values and who share our dedication to delivering outstanding patient care.

If you are passionate about quality improvement, governance and making a difference to patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

We know happy colleagues deliver better care. All our teams work in a supportive environment, which nurtures your wellbeing and provides opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We have an open, inclusive and diverse culture and we would like you to be part of the team.

Details

Date posted

27 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£25,760 to £27,476 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

214-CEN-8194142

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL

United Kingdom


Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Further Training

Desirable

  • Formal training in governance, compliance, risk management or related disciplines.
  • Trained in database or business administration system maintenance.

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Flexible approach to working including a willingness and ability to travel to other SFH sites as well as external locations.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of the NHS quality and effectiveness agenda, priorities and requirements.
  • Knowledge of compliance, risk and audit systems and methodologies.
  • Knowledge of administrative procedures and specialist IT systems.
  • Knowledge of project management.
  • Strong communication skills: verbal, written and presentational.
  • Awareness of data quality and information governance principles and requirements.
  • Good personal organisation, prioritisation and time management skills.
  • Good working knowledge of general administrative and IT practices and packages, including MS Office applications.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of NHS governance and compliance management systems and processes.
  • Awareness of a range of data processing, analysis and problem solving methods.
  • Datix system experience.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to A-Level standard or equivalent qualification; or experience gained in a comparable environment.

Desirable

  • Diploma level qualification or equivalent

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable experience of monitoring compliance with established standards and guidelines within a large and complex organisation.
  • Experience of using and maintaining corporate records using a database, including the production of professional reports to meet internal and external requirements.
  • Previous NHS experience.

Desirable

  • Proven experience in managing activities related to NICE and other formal guidance..
  • Demonstrable experience of analysing complex data and presenting in a user friendly format.
  • Experience of providing staff training in a range of different ways (to individuals and groups).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL

United Kingdom


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/

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