Job summary
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a passionate and motivated individual to join our practice governance team within East and North strategic business unit.
As a member of the practice governance team you will be involved in supporting service development, quality improvement initiatives and clinical governance of teams within your portfolio.
The post holder will support a portfolio of services across the business unit.
Main duties of the job
Implement quality improvement and practice governance projects and initiatives in the service in consultation with the Senior Matron, MD, CD and Service Line Leads to provide assurance of integrated practice governance and continuous service improvement in the East and North SBU.
- To provide leadership and direction on all matters across relevant services relating to practice governance and quality improvement.
- Implement governance and quality reviews of East and North services and subsequent action plans
- To liaise and work with the Practice Audit and Clinical effectiveness team to identify audit priorities for East and North SBU and facilitate Service and team level audit programmes to support quality improvement. To undertake audits on behalf of SBU services.
- Support service and team concordance with processes for the reporting of, and learning from, incidents, including the monitoring of incident reports. Proactively use this learning to identify and facilitate quality improvement initiatives. Undertake serious incident investigations.
- Sharing and spreading innovation and improvement ideas; engaging with individuals and teams to both share their improvement work and to help them to gain the benefits of the work of others through understanding the core improvement idea and how they can apply it to their context.
About us
“Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just fivemental 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 3500 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?
Then please read on…”
Job description
Job responsibilities
To develop and manage integrated practice governance and quality improvement systems and processes in East and North SBU managed by Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. Work alongside service line leads and wider leadership teams to promote and deliver a culture of continuous practice and quality improvement, directly supporting the services within the SBU in the delivery of this work.
To support service planning and development to implement practice governance systems and quality improvement processes in East and North SBU services managed by HPFT.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To develop and manage integrated practice governance and quality improvement systems and processes in East and North SBU managed by Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. Work alongside service line leads and wider leadership teams to promote and deliver a culture of continuous practice and quality improvement, directly supporting the services within the SBU in the delivery of this work.
To support service planning and development to implement practice governance systems and quality improvement processes in East and North SBU services managed by HPFT.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Evidence of further professional development
Desirable
- Leadership Qualification
- Qualification in Risk Management
Experience
Essential
- Significant management experience
- Organisation and delivery of staff training
- Experience of engaging staff service users/ carers in service planning and quality improvement
- Translation of policy into practice
- Performance management
- Management and monitoring of complaints & Serious incidents
- Undertake investigations such as serious incidents and complaints
- Knowledge and experience of inpatient and community mental health services
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Evidence of further professional development
Desirable
- Leadership Qualification
- Qualification in Risk Management
Experience
Essential
- Significant management experience
- Organisation and delivery of staff training
- Experience of engaging staff service users/ carers in service planning and quality improvement
- Translation of policy into practice
- Performance management
- Management and monitoring of complaints & Serious incidents
- Undertake investigations such as serious incidents and complaints
- Knowledge and experience of inpatient and community mental health services
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.
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
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) .
