Practice Governance Facilitator

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; St Albans; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust in St Albans is seeking a Practice Governance Facilitator to enhance quality improvement initiatives. The successful candidate will support governance processes and ensure compliance with standards. Responsibilities include collaborating with teams, developing practice governance plans, and identifying audit priorities. Ideal candidates will have a relevant degree, strong presentation, and facilitation skills. Join our mission to deliver safe, high-quality services.

Benefits

Supportive work culture

Career development opportunities

Work-life balance initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience working within a health & social care setting (Desirable).
• Sound knowledge of clinical governance and quality management.
• Understanding of safeguarding adults and children policies.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to policy development and best practice.
• Support team managers in improving performance.
• Facilitate team-level audit programmes.

Skills

Presentation skills

Time management

Facilitation skills

Chairing of meetings

Working with groups/teams

IT in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent clinical professional qualification

Job description

Overview

We invite you to join our dedicated team and contribute to advancing practice governance and quality improvement initiatives within the Adult Acute and Urgent Care Division. As a Practice Governance Facilitator, you will play a key role in supporting the Division by promoting best practices, facilitating the implementation of learning from patient safety incidents, and ensuring robust quality assurance processes are in place to drive continuous improvement. Your efforts will help ensure team compliance with established standards and alignment with Organisational Policies and procedures. If you are committed to enhancing patient safety and experience in healthcare and thrive in a collaborative setting, we encourage you to apply and support our mission to deliver safe, high-quality services.

To facilitate and manage integrated practice governance systems and processes for the service area of Adults of working age in Adult Acute Services managed by Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT). To support service planning, development and quality of services to support practice governance systems and processes. This post will cover services in Hertfordshire under Acute Adults of Working age within Inpatient Units and Crisis Services with mental health who are managed by HPFT. At present this includes but not limited to Inpatient Units, 136 Suites, ECT, Patient Flow, Crisis Teams, The Mental Health Urgent Care Centre, Mental Health Liaison Teams and the Single Point of Access (SPA). To support teams in promoting best practices, implementing learnings from patient safety incidents, complaints, and service user feedback, ensuring quality assurance for continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to policy development as required by the Practice Governance Lead and Head of Services. Act as resource for implementation of policies and development of practice. Promote best practice and disseminate supporting guidance - e.g. NICE guidance.
• Contribute to the Divisions Quality and Risk Management meeting, Patient Safety meetings, Practice Governance meetings and Team meetings. Support the development and implementation of Agendas in Practice Governance and Team meetings.
• Support team managers in setting standards and improving performance of individuals and teams. Support the development of unit practice governance action plans and their implementation.
• Support governance reviews of services and subsequent action plans. Identify audit priorities for the Division, and facilitate team level audit programmes.
• Support Teams concordance with systems and processes for the reporting of and learning from incidents, including the monitoring of incident reports and support units to act on trends and learning points. Support Teams to promote and co-ordinate CQC and National Standards embed recommendations and actions from CQC/MHAC and Quality visits to promote quality of care.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree or equivalent clinical professional qualification. To prioritise work under own initiative
• Presentation skills
• Chairing of meetings
• Time management
• Facilitation skills
• Working with groups/teams
• IT in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook (Desirable)
• Mentorship, Two years' experience working within a health & social care setting (Desirable)
• Translation of policy into practice
• Standard setting and clinical audit
• Sound knowledge and understanding of practice/clinical governance, risk assessment & management, clinical effectiveness and quality management within clinical services
• Sound knowledge and understanding of safeguarding adults and safeguarding children policies and procedures and issues around vulnerable people (Desirable)
• Undertake Investigations (Desirable)
• Good knowledge of current policy and national developments in relation to Mental Health, Mental Health Act and mental health clinical practice. Supporting Management of Change
• Participation in professional / LD networks
• Delivery of clinical practice
• Modernisation tools method

Additional information

• Candidates who require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the United Kingdom can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this position by assessing their circumstances against the criteria specified on the Check if you need a UK visa - GOV.UK website. We would encourage all applicants to review the criteria carefully to understand their eligibility for sponsorship.
• Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of \'Outstanding\' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
• Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services. The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Our Trust values are: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
• Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
• Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported through a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional.
• The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.