Practice Governance FacilitatorNHS AfC: Band 6

Main area

admin

Grade

NHS AfC: Band 6

Contract

Permanent

Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week per annum pro rata)

Job ref

367-LD&F-101706

Site

Lexden Hospital

Town

Colchester

Salary

£39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

22/10/2026 23:59

Values Based Screener

At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.

Job overview

Please be aware that this role is NOT eligible for Sponsorship

If you already work for HPFT on a health and care visa, you will NOT be able to transfer your visa to this role as this role is NOT eligible for Sponsorship

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent Practice Governance Facilitator to support our learning disability inpatient and community teams across Essex and Norfolk.

This role offers the chance to work creatively across a range of teams and professions, and alongside service users and carers, to shape practice and care delivery. Building close working relationships with clinical staff and operational managers, you will be at the forefront of developing and strengthening our positive learning culture.

Main duties of the job

You will have interest and skills in audit, analysis, Continuous Quality Improvement and will use these skills as a catalyst and enabler to embed new practices and improve clinical safety and effectiveness. You will work within a dedicated Practice Governance Team covering Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Buckinghamshire HPFT services for Learning Disabilities, Forensics and Rehabilitation.

The post will be based at Lexden Hospital in Colchester, Essex. There will be occasions where you will be required to visit other sites across Norfolk to meet with staff and service users face to face.

Working for our organisation

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?

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE :

To facilitate and manage integrated governance systems and processes in

Essex and Norfolk's learning disability services, managed by Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT).

To support service planning and development in Learning Disabilities services managed by HPFT

SCOPE:

You will be supporting the Essex assessment and treatment unit for people with learning disabilities at Lexden Hospital, the two community learning disability teams in Essex and the 6 community learning disability teams in Norfolk. Your role will be to support these teams to develop and manage integrated practice governance and quality improvement systems and processes. You will be part of a wider Practice Governance Team supporting learning disabilities, forensic and rehabilitation services across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk and Essex. The Practice Governance team purpose is Supporting teams to improve safety, effectiveness and experience.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

Service Line Lead, Service Managers, Practice Governance Lead, Team Leaders, Charge Nurses, Clinicians, service users, carers. Key meeting

relationships will include Patient Safety, Quality and Risk, and Making Services Better.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide direction on all matters across relevant services relating to practice governance.

Support managers in setting clinical standards and improving clinical performance of individuals and teams.

Support teams to manage and review existing risks and help them to identify emerging risks.

Work in conjunction with teams to monitor and review incident reports and act on trends / learning points.

Produce governance reports including contributing to quarterly contractual reports.

Support the teams in preparing for Care Quality Commission and Mental Health Act visits and any responses that may be required because of these visits.

Contribute to the Division Quality and Risk Management meeting.

Work with services, service users, carers and their representatives to develop and implement mechanisms for obtaining service user feedback.

Support teams to act on the feedback they receive in order to develop and improve services.

Promote best clinical practice by undertaking benchmarking exercises and supporting teams to work in accordance with NICE guidance.

Identify audit priorities for services and facilitate the audit programme.

Help identify staff training requirements and priorities.

Work in partnership with teams to enable them to identify improvement opportunities through analysis of data and information, curious reflection, and critical thinking.

Support in the dissemination, implementation, and monitoring of Trust policies

Contribute to policy development as required by the Practice Governance Lead.

Person specification

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