Risk and Governance Manager

Company: Agilis Search
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Location: Milton Keynes
Job Description:

Are you a seasoned professional in risk, compliance, and complaints management with a passion for healthcare? If so, this role could be the perfect next step in your career. Join a dynamic Quality & Governance Team as a Risk and Governance Manager, where your expertise will be pivotal in shaping and maintaining a robust risk, compliance, and complaints management framework across a fast-growing private healthcare organisation. This is a fully remote position.

Key duties and responsibilities:

– Lead and maintain the organisation-wide risk management framework.

– Oversee corporate and service-level risk registers, ensuring regular review.

– Support teams in identifying, assessing, and mitigating various risks.

– Monitor risk themes and escalate concerns appropriately.

– Act as a lead for ISO and quality compliance.

– Manage the complaints process in line with PSIRF and regulatory requirements.

– Conduct Level 4 complaints and appeals.

– Develop and implement policies, procedures, and SOPs related to quality, complaints, clinical governance, risk, and compliance.

– Design and coordinate audit programmes and support internal audits.

– Prepare high-quality reports on clinical governance, risk, compliance, and complaints.

Skills and experience:

Essential:

– Extensive experience in governance, clinical governance, complaints, quality, and risk within private healthcare or the NHS.

– Knowledge of national policies and standards related to patient care quality.

– Proven ability to develop and implement governance and risk management frameworks.

– Strong knowledge of ISO regulation, auditing, and duty of candour requirements.

– Experience managing complaints processes and conducting complex investigations.

– Excellent written communication skills and experience drafting complaint responses.

– Demonstrable experience with PSIRF and ISO auditing.

Desirable:

– Experience in private healthcare and remote or digital care models.

– Experience working across multiple clinical or service lines.

– Background in rapidly growing healthcare organisations.

Personal qualities:

– Adaptable, assertive, and excellent in communication.

– Independent, dependable, and trustworthy.

– Compassionate in handling complaints.

– Organised, solution-oriented, and self-motivated.

If you are ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role that will allow you to make a significant impact on patient safety and quality improvement, apply now. Seize this chance to advance your career and contribute to a thriving healthcare environment. Submit your application today! This position is fully remote.

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Posted: September 12th, 2026