Practice Governance Facilitator

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT); St Albans; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust in St Albans seeks a Practice Governance Facilitator to support governance and quality improvement initiatives within the Adult Acute and Urgent Care Division. The role involves promoting best practices and ensuring compliance with quality assurance processes to enhance patient safety and experience. Candidates must possess a full valid driving license and have experience in practice governance.

Qualifications

• Must hold a full valid driving license and access to a car.
• Experience in practice governance systems.
• Ability to facilitate quality improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and manage integrated practice governance systems.
• Support service planning and quality development.
• Promote best practices in acute adult services.

Skills

Driving license

Quality assurance

Patient safety

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.

You must hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Responsibilities

• 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.

About HPFT

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.

Our Values

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.

Contact and Further Information

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Simone Hamilton
Job title: Practice Governance Lead
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]