Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Strategic Health Facilitator

The closing date is 28 August 2025

Job summary

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 22.5 hours per week.

The Strategic Health Facilitator plays a critical leadership role in improving health outcomes and ensuring equitable access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities across Gloucestershire. Working in partnership with NHS Trusts, the Integrated Care Board (ICB), Local Authorities, the Learning Disability Partnership Board (LDPB), and Public Health teams, this role ensures the consistent implementation of inclusive, person-centred, and evidence-based healthcare practices across all levels of service.

The post holder will lead and coordinate the development and delivery of Health Facilitation and Health Action Planning (HAPs) across the county for both adults and children.

Main duties of the job

1. Leadership and Coordination of Health Facilitation and Health Action Planning

Lead the implementation and development of Health Facilitation and HAP for adults and children with learning disabilities.
Identify, train, and support Health Facilitators across services, ensuring a consistent and person-centred approach is maintained.
Work collaboratively with GP practices to implement robust annual health checks and the delivery of meaningful HAPs.
Lead audits, evaluations, and reporting of outcomes to the ICB, Learning Disability Partnership Board, and other key stakeholders.

2. Improving Access and Quality of Healthcare

Work with acute hospitals, primary care teams, and specialist community learning disability teams to improve access to care, reduce health inequalities, and ensure reasonable adjustments are made.
Lead on developing and implementing care pathways and clinical protocols tailored to the needs of people with learning disabilities.
Monitor inpatient admissions, length of stays, and discharge planning processes to improve flow and patient outcomes.
Identify barriers to access and co-produce solutions with service users, carers, and professionals.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Date posted

15 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

327-25-691

Job locations

Pullman Place

Great Western Road

Gloucester

GL1 3NF

Job description

Job responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application

The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree level in health and or social care
Professional qualification in health or social care

Qualifications

Desirable

Evidence of undertaking research / audit
Supervisory management qualification or equivalent

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree level in health and or social care
Professional qualification in health or social care

Qualifications

Desirable

Evidence of undertaking research / audit
Supervisory management qualification or equivalent

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Pullman Place

Great Western Road

Gloucester

GL1 3NF

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Pullman Place

Great Western Road

Gloucester

GL1 3NF

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)