Main area Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement Facilitator Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract 1 year (Fixed Term Opportunity for 1 year) Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref 847-CW-24-V448
Employer Spectrum Community Health CIC Employer type Public (Non NHS) Site Corporate Town Wakefield Salary £39,959 – £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/07/2026 23:59
Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement Facilitator
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Fixed Term Opportunity for 1 year
This role will involve supporting the delivery of the patient safety strategy and agenda. Work with colleagues to develop areas for service and quality improvement. Analysis of patient safety and quality improvement data. Close monitoring of incidents. Support the implementation of the governance framework across the organisation. Act as a resource to share information and best practice. Support services to undertake clinical audit and quality assurance activity. Promote positive relationships and collaborative learning environments.
Main duties of the job
- Promote quality improvement / quality assurance measures.
- Act as a resource to share information and best practice.
- Support services to undertake clinical audit and quality assurance of action plan outcomes, including deaths in custody/service reviews.
- Support the improvement of patient experience and quality of service provision through monitoring and quality improvement facilitation.
- Facilitate and signpost how to access and integrate and implement high standards of care across all settings.
- Promote positive relationships and collaborative learning environments which includes contribution to the Nursing and Clinical Governance Bulletins.
- Support and promote services to enable people to have equal access to good quality, person centred healthcare.
- Support the implementation of agreed service change and integration; working closely with services, commissioners, national monitoring agencies and other health and social care colleagues.
- Identify risks, concerns, problems relating to the provision of health care and recommend remedial actions to be undertaken by colleagues, local operational staff and national monitoring bodies.
- Ensure risk reporting, governance reports, action plans link into Spectrum Community Health CiC Governance agenda including incident reporting, complaints, Caldicott breaches, complaints and adult / child safeguarding alerts.
- Contribute to the work of groups and forums in specialist areas as required.
Person specification
Requirements
- Evidence of continuing professional development and ongoing personal development/revalidation.
- Degree or equivalent experience.
- Detailed understanding of clinical governance and clinical audit.
- Thorough understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality.
- Knowledge and understanding of application of relevant national guidance.
- Knowledge of NHS priorities.
- Understanding of Spectrum’s objectives and priorities and the ability to work across boundaries.
- Political Awareness.
- Experience of developing trusting and supportive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Evidence of quality improvement / quality assurance planning, implementation and monitoring.
- Experience in identifying, assessing and managing clinical risk factors.
- Experience of undertaking incident investigations.
- Demontratable ability to prioritise effectively.
- Ability to work autonomously but also collaboratively.
- Demonstrated ability at negotiation, exercising tact and diplomacy.
- Evidence of good communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to analyse situations and to provide a plan of action / escalation.
- Ability to motivate and promote proactive care and change.
- Develoop or utilise known mechanisms to monitor and evaluate quality improvement interventions and measure sustained change.
- Familiarity with microsoft office/word and Excel packages.
- Familiarity with Datix or other software incident / risk reporting package.
- Frequent travel to site therefore independent means of transportation is required across the geographical spread of Spectrum services.
- Flexibility with regard to patterns and places of work.
- Flexible in approach to tasks undertaken displaying resilience to sometimes challenging situations.
- Registered Nurse/RMN/RLDN or Allied Health Professional with current professional registration.
- Teaching and assessment qualification.
- Good knowledge of relevant national polices pertaining to Nursing and Clinical Governance Knowledge of the theory and practice of clinical supervision.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
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