Job overview

The Quality Governance Facilitator supports the effective delivery of the Trust’s quality governance agenda by helping services embed good governance practice, strengthening consistency, and enabling high‑quality assurance reporting. Reporting to the Lead for Quality Governance, the post‑holder provides coordination, analytical input and administrative support so that governance processes are reliable and streamlined, documentation is robust, and information is clearly presented to support learning, oversight and decision‑making.

The role focuses on helping clinical teams and services function well within the governance framework including embedding the use of standardised agendas, templates and action trackers and supporting high‑quality governance processes. Through coaching, guidance and practical support, the facilitator enables staff to engage confidently with quality governance and adopt reliable governance habits aligned to the Trust’s values of Safe, Kind and Excellent.

Main duties of the job

Support the consistent delivery of the Trust’s quality governance agenda by promoting standardised processes, templates, documentation and meeting structures.

Encourage and coach staff to use governance tools effectively to support transparent decision‑making and provide robust assurance.

Provide practical operational insight to assist the Lead for Quality Governance in maintaining governance policies and core documentation.

Enable improvements by highlighting gaps and identifying best practice to share Trustwide.

Assist with Trustwide governance improvement plans through maintaining shared tools and supporting action owners.

Working for our organisation

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.