Group Quality and Governance Manager (Registered Nurse)
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[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] Group is recruiting a Registered Nurse to join our team as Group Quality & Governance Manager. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role responsible for strengthening quality assurance, clinical governance, regulatory readiness, and improvement activity across our care homes and care at home services.
Group Quality & Governance Manager (Registered Nurse)
[Employer hidden] Group is recruiting a Registered Nurse to join our team as Group Quality & Governance Manager. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role responsible for strengthening quality assurance, clinical governance, regulatory readiness, and improvement activity across our care homes and care at home services.
Working alongside Regional Managers, senior operational colleagues and support functions, the postholder will provide independent quality oversight while supporting services directly to embed improvement and deliver consistently high standards of care.
The role requires regular travel across Central and North Scotland and includes responsibility for ensuring quality improvement activity is aligned with organisational priorities, resource planning, and service sustainability.
You will lead the Group Quality Team, contribute to organisational strategy, and ensure governance systems support safe, effective, and person-centred care across the Group.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the organisation’s quality assurance and governance framework
- Provide clinical governance oversight across services
- Support services before, during, and after Care Inspectorate inspections
- Translate organisational quality strategy into practical improvement plans
- Lead thematic reviews and organisation-wide quality improvement initiatives
- Embed learning from incidents, audits, complaints, and inspection outcomes
- Oversee development and implementation of quality-related policies and tools
- Support effective use of electronic systems (e.g. quality platforms, digital care planning, eMAR, rota systems)
- Produce assurance reports and quality dashboards for senior leadership and Board review
- Identify and escalate organisational quality and clinical risks with clear recommendations
- Lead organisational quality governance forums and contribute to operational performance reviews
- Lead and develop the Group Quality function, setting and monitoring KPIs
- Manage budgets assigned to the Quality & Governance function and ensure resources are aligned to organisational priorities
- Contribute to organisational performance reporting by linking quality indicators with operational and financial performance
- Support oversight of improvement investment and regulatory risk mitigation activity across services
- Work collaboratively with Regional Managers and the Operations Director to ensure quality improvement activity supports occupancy stability, workforce sustainability, agency reduction, and service performance
Essential Requirements
- Be a Registered Nurse with active NMC registration
- Have strong experience in clinical governance within care home services
- Demonstrate senior-level experience supporting inspection readiness and service improvement
- Understand the Care Inspectorate Quality Framework and Scottish Social Care Standards
- Have experience leading implementation of electronic systems such as quality governance platforms, digital care planning, eMAR, or workforce rostering
- Have experience contributing to organisational performance reporting and aligning improvement activity with service sustainability and resource planning
- Be willing and able to travel regularly across Central and North Scotland, including overnight stays
- Hold a full UK driving licence
About You
- Brings credibility as a clinical and governance leader
- Is visible and supportive in frontline service environments
- Can translate regulation into practical improvement actions
- Balances supportive leadership with appropriate oversight and scrutiny
- Is confident influencing at senior level
- Is comfortable working with performance data including occupancy, dependency, workforce metrics, and agency usage to inform improvement priorities
- Is able to operate effectively at both strategic and operational levels
Company Benefits
At Keane, we believe in taking care of the people who care for others. Here’s what we offer to support your wellbeing and development:
- Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme, with 24/7 support via the Wisdom app and helpline– access health checks, wellbeing tools, legal advice, and much more.
- Free confidential counselling sessions – up to 6 Structured counselling sessions via phone, online or face-to-face.
- Bright Exchange, available through the Wisdom app – unlock exclusive deals and discounts on a wide range of products and services.
- Exclusive high street discounts through the Blue Light Card.
- Free mortgage consultation with McCusker Mortgage Solutions.
- Comprehensive induction and ongoing training to support your confidence and success
Benefits are non-contractual and may be amended or withdrawn at any time.
Job Ref KEA1558
Branch [Employer hidden] Group Head Office
Location Glasgow
Salary/Benefits Up to £55,000 gross per annum
Contract type Permanent
Hours Full Time
Shift pattern predominantly Monday to Friday 9am- 5pm
Hours per week 37.5
Date posted 23/04/2026
Closing date 25/05/2026
It’s More Than a Job
Our team is our greatest asset, and we work hard to give each member of our amazing staff the opportunity to grow within their role. We constantly give the chance to upskill and develop our employees through extensive training programmes, and because of this focus on the future, we don’t require prior experience in several key roles.
All we ask is a commitment to care and real desire to improve our resident’s and service users lives through hard work and compassionate understanding.