Job summary
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 license and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Main duties of the job
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 us
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?
Job description
Job 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 practicePromote best practice and disseminate supporting guidance e.g. NICE guidanceContribute to the Divisions Quality and Risk Management meeting, Patient Safety meetings, Practice Governance meetings and Team meetingsSupport the development and implementation of Agendas in Practice Governance and Team meetingsSupport team managers in setting standards and improving performance of individuals and teamsSupport the development of unit practice governance action plans and their implementationSupport governance reviews of services and subsequent action plansIdentify audit priorities for the Division, and facilitate team level audit programmesSupport 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 pointsSupport 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.For a More in-depth Person and Job Description please read attached before applying
Job description
Job 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 practicePromote best practice and disseminate supporting guidance e.g. NICE guidanceContribute to the Divisions Quality and Risk Management meeting, Patient Safety meetings, Practice Governance meetings and Team meetingsSupport the development and implementation of Agendas in Practice Governance and Team meetingsSupport team managers in setting standards and improving performance of individuals and teamsSupport the development of unit practice governance action plans and their implementationSupport governance reviews of services and subsequent action plansIdentify audit priorities for the Division, and facilitate team level audit programmesSupport 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 pointsSupport 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.For a More in-depth Person and Job Description please read attached before applying
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant degree or equivalent clinical professional qualification
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- To prioritise work under own initiative
- Presentation skills
- Chairing of meetings
- Time management
- Facilitation skills
- Working with groups/teams
Desirable
- IT in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Mentorship
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Two years' experience working within a health & social care setting
- 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
- 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant degree or equivalent clinical professional qualification
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- To prioritise work under own initiative
- Presentation skills
- Chairing of meetings
- Time management
- Facilitation skills
- Working with groups/teams
Desirable
- IT in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Mentorship
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Two years' experience working within a health & social care setting
- 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
- 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
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.
