Job overview

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 22.5 hours per week.

The Strategic Health Facilitator plays a critical leadership role in improving health outcomes and ensuring equitable access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities across Gloucestershire. Working in partnership with NHS Trusts, the Integrated Care Board (ICB), Local Authorities, the Learning Disability Partnership Board (LDPB), and Public Health teams, this role ensures the consistent implementation of inclusive, person-centred, and evidence-based healthcare practices across all levels of service.

The post holder will lead and coordinate the development and delivery of Health Facilitation and Health Action Planning (HAPs) across the county for both adults and children. 

Main duties of the job

1. Leadership and Coordination of Health Facilitation and Health Action Planning

• Lead the implementation and development of Health Facilitation and HAP for adults and children with learning disabilities.
• Identify, train, and support Health Facilitators across services, ensuring a consistent and person-centred approach is maintained.
• Work collaboratively with GP practices to implement robust annual health checks and the delivery of meaningful HAPs.
• Lead audits, evaluations, and reporting of outcomes to the ICB, Learning Disability Partnership Board, and other key stakeholders.

2. Improving Access and Quality of Healthcare

• Work with acute hospitals, primary care teams, and specialist community learning disability teams to improve access to care, reduce health inequalities, and ensure reasonable adjustments are made.
• Lead on developing and implementing care pathways and clinical protocols tailored to the needs of people with learning disabilities.
• Monitor inpatient admissions, length of stays, and discharge planning processes to improve flow and patient outcomes.
• Identify barriers to access and co-produce solutions with service users, carers, and professionals.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.