Quality & Governance Coordinator

Reports to: Quality and Governance Lead

Salary: £32,000–£35,000 per annum, depending on experience

Location: Basingstoke - Hybrid (with occasional travel to office as required)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Skylight Psychiatry is a forward thinking, dynamic mental health service. We are a CQC registered service delivering person-centred assessment, care and support, with our ultimate aim being to improve the lives of people with neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD, Autism and Learning disabilities.

Role Purpose

The Quality & Governance Coordinator provides support across the organisation’s quality and governance activities, including patient-facing assurance processes. The role focuses on maintaining accurate records, tracking actions and deadlines, coordinating information gathering, and supporting leads to ensure governance activity is managed consistently and in line with regulatory requirements.

The postholder works within agreed processes and delegated authority. Accountability for clinical decision-making, formal investigations and final sign-off remains with the relevant leads, while the postholder plays a key role in enabling effective governance through robust coordination and information management.

Key Responsibilities

Quality & governance coordination

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date governance logs and registers, including complaints, incidents, and Subject Access Requests

• Track actions, deadlines, and progress across governance processes, proactively following up outstanding items

• Support preparation for audits, reviews, and regulatory activity through effective document collation and tracking

• Support the collation and sharing of quality and governance reports

Complaints coordination

• Act as a central coordination point for complaints

• Log and acknowledge complaints in line with internal procedures ensuring adherence to relevant timescales

• Coordinate information gathering with clinical and operational teams

• Support the investigation and preparation of responses to complaints prior sign off by a manager

• Subject Access Request (SAR) administration

• Log and acknowledge SARs in line with statutory timescales

• Coordinate collation of information across systems and teams

• Prepare SAR information packs for review and sign-off by the relevant manager

• Monitor and track deadlines to support timely completion

Incident tracking and reporting

• Maintain the incident log and ensure incidents are recorded accurately

• Gather further information where required and support the incident review process

• Track investigation progress and associated actions

• Chase updates and support timely completion of reviews

• Assist with data collation for internal reporting and learning activity

Information gathering and systems support

• Extract and collate information from the patient management system and other relevant systems to support complaints, incidents, SARs, and reviews

• Prepare clear chronologies and evidence packs as directed

• Ensure all information is handled securely and in accordance with data protection requirements

General governance support

• Provide administrative and coordination support across wider quality and governance activity, including audits, risk registers, service development plans, policy reviews and associated action plans.

• Support consistent application of governance processes across the organisation

• Escalate risks, delays, or concerns in line with agreed escalation routes

• Contribute to continuous improvement through accurate tracking, reporting, and coordination

• Support with sharing and embedding learning from incidents/complaints with relevant teams.

• Support with monitoring to ensure any actions arising from relevant incidents/complaints are shared and completed within relevant timescales

Person Specification

Essential

• Strong administrative and organisational skills with high attention to detail

• Proactive and can-do attitude

• Demonstrate initiative, identifying opportunities to improve processes

• Experience coordinating complex processes, casework, or workflows

• Confidence managing deadlines and handling sensitive information

• Clear and professional written communication skills

• High resilience and ability to work calmly with emotionally charged material

• Confidence using digital systems, databases, and case management tools

• Experience working in quality and clinical governance with a passion in the field

Desirable

• Experience working in healthcare or regulated environments is highly desirable

Benefits:

· Opportunities for professional development and growth within the service

· Annual salary review

· 25 days annual leave.

· Pension scheme offered

· Birthday off as additional leave

· Work related electronic devices provided

Please submit both your CV and a cover letter outlining your reasons for applying for this role. Please note that due to the high volume of applications anticipated, we will be unable to contact all applicants individually unless shortlisted. If you have not been contacted within a month of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Thank you.

At Skylight Psychiatry, we are committed to fostering a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and reach their full potential. We recognise that diverse teams encourage creativity and productivity, so we warmly welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. We encourage candidates to apply regardless of age, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Together, we create an environment that values and celebrates diversity!

Job Types: Full-time Permanent

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Basingstoke, RG24 8AG.