Job summary
- Main area
- Learning Disabilties and Forensics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-LD&F-9547
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 3 Bowlers Green, Kingsley Green
- Town
- Near Radlett, St Albans, Herts
- Salary
- £57,888 - £64,880 per ann pro rata (inclusive of 5% HCAS - Min £1,258 max £2,122)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Practice Governance and Improvement Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.co
Job overview
The post is one of 3 Practice Governance Lead posts which sit within Operational Services. The post offers strategic leadership to staff within these operational services in order to create an effective system that supports the delivery of the best possible outcomes for all service users, staff and the public. The post holder works closely with colleagues in the Practice Governance Support Team (PGST) which provides practice governance support to all staff within The Trust in order to ensure the practice governance agenda is delivered. The post holder may be required to line manage other posts which form part of the service stream’s practice governance team.
Each of the Practice Governance Leads will support identified service streams which may be varied from time to time. The post holder will also take on wider lead roles across services where they have particular expertise and post holders will be required to work closely together to ensure the practice governance agenda is delivered consistently across the Division.
Main duties of the job
To provide leadership and direction on all matters across relevant services relating to practice governance.
To take a lead role in ensuring that staff and others as appropriate are informed as to the purpose, principles and methods of undertaking and engaging in practice governance activities.
To co-ordinate the development of a Practice Governance agenda for relevant services (to include work around research, clinical audit, care pathways and protocols, critical incident management, clinical supervision and professional education, complaints management and risk management).
To take a proactive role in driving and developing a culture of continuous practice improvement within the Division.
To provide leadership and direction on all matters across relevant services relating to practice governance.
To take a lead role in ensuring that staff and others as appropriate are informed as to the purpose, principles and methods of undertaking and engaging in practice governance activities.
To co-ordinate the development of a Practice Governance agenda for relevant services (to include work around research, clinical audit, care pathways and protocols, critical incident management, clinical supervision and professional education, complaints management and risk management).
To take a lead role in ensuring the effective investigation of incidents, ensuring that recommendations and learning are implemented and shared across the division.
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
The Learning Disabilities and Forensic Division provides mental health and learning disability services across Hertfordshire, Essex,
Buckinghamshire and Norfolk. We provide high-quality and patient-centred care and our forensic and learning disability inpatient services are rated Outstanding by the CQC.
We are seeking to recruit an individual to lead on practice governance and improvement for the Division. The post holder will work closely with
colleagues across the Division and trust to provide practice governance support and to help deliver our quality agenda. The post holder will line
manage the Practice Governance Facilitators in the Division.
The post holder will lead and facilitate in a number of key areas, including but not limited to, capturing and tracking learning from incidents;
practice and clinical audits; research; care pathways; protocols; improvement and risk management.
This is a critical role in the Division and the post holder will sit on the Core Management Team and report directly to the Divisional Director. The
suitable candidate must be a clinician or have experience in practice governance.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualifications
- Education to Masters or equivalent experience
- Evidence of further professional development
- Clinical qualification or equivalent clinical experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience within the NHS or equivalent health / social care setting
- Experience of delivering practice improvement programmes.
Desirable criteria
- Organisation and delivery of staff training Project management
- Experience of engaging service users / carers in service planning / improvement
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Fanning
- Job title
- Head of Service, Forensics and Criminal Justice
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07768841929
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