Quality Governance Facilitator

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Guildford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Quality Governance Facilitator at the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust to enhance patient safety and quality improvement. This role involves leading initiatives and supporting investigations while offering a chance for career development within a collaborative environment. The Trust has received an 'Outstanding' rating from the CQC, making it an ideal time to join a dedicated healthcare team.

Benefits

Comprehensive health and wellbeing program

Commitment to professional development

Investment in physical environment and equipment

Qualifications

• Experience in safety investigations and risk management is desirable.
• NHS professionals looking to expand knowledge in quality governance.

Responsibilities

• Support safety investigations, clinical audits, and regulatory compliance.
• Provide quality governance expertise for the Trust’s Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
• Coordinate responses to patient safety incidents.

Skills

Risk Management

Safety Investigations

Patient Safety

Quality Improvement

Job description

Are you passionate about driving quality improvement and enhancing patient safety? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Quality and Safety team at Royal Surrey County Hospital as a Quality Governance Facilitator.

This one-year secondment offers a unique opportunity for NHS professionals, including allied health professionals, to develop skills in risk management, safety investigations, and regulatory compliance—valuable experience for those considering future progression into senior clinical roles.

About The Role

As part of a dedicated team, you will play a key role in supporting safety investigations, clinical audits, and regulatory compliance. Working alongside three other Quality Governance Facilitators and reporting to the Senior Quality Governance Facilitator, you will help embed the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and strengthen quality improvement across the Trust.

This role is crucial in ensuring effective learning from patient safety events through the Learn From Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) system. It provides an exciting opportunity to lead proactive safety initiatives and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.

About You

This secondment is ideal for professionals looking to expand their knowledge of quality governance while continuing their clinical development. Experience in safety investigations, risk management, and patient safety is desirable.

• The Quality Governance Facilitator will be responsible for providing quality governance expertise to support the Trust’s Patient Safety Incident Response Framework Policy and Plan.
• You will work collaboratively with a wide range of staff, including members of Divisional Triumvirates to review all incidents within the division, support risk management, triangulation of incident data and intelligence to assess and manage risk to provide assurance and compliance.
• You will provide clinical governance expertise and advice to all clinical and Specialist Business Unit (SBU) staff.
• You will be the “critical friend” for the division ensuring appropriate learning responses are utilised to extract learning and resultant implementation of quality improvement to all aspects of practice and patient care.
• You will ensure compassionate engagement and effective communication with all members of the clinical and non-clinical staff, patients, carers and relatives.
• You will support the weekly divisional Patient Safety Incident Response Group (PSIRG) and work with the divisional triumvirate to coordinate effective review and proportionate response to all patient safety incidents and safety issues within the Division.
  
  

Please refer to the attached job description for a full list of responsibilities for the role.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lorna Sonley Job title: Senior Quality Governance Facilitator Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01483571122