Improvement lead

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Full time

Are you passionate about improving care, experience and outcomes for patients and staff? Do you enjoy motivating and enabling teams to drive improvements in their own work areas? Do you want to work in a friendly, supportive and dynamic team? If the answer to this is yes, then we have a fantastic opportunity to join the Improvement Team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as an Improvement Lead.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and outcome driven improvement professional to join a dynamic team who are 8 years into a 20 year journey to create a culture of continuous improvement.

The Improvement Team is the expert resource who are responsible for delivering a programme of improvement education & training, coaching teams through their improvement projects, providing improvement advice & consultancy and ensuring overall governance of the Trust's improvement programmes.

Improvement has been highlighted as one of the key enablers to achieving objectives laid out in the Trust organisational strategy for the next 3 years and been strengthened by the NHS IMPACT framework. This is an exciting time for the team as we strategically transition QI from nice to have to business as usual including key programmes of work to design & implement systematic delivery of QI training across the whole organisation and aligning QI to the our organisational management system.

Main duties of the job


  • To provide ad hoc support for other quality improvement projects as required
  • To liaise and engage organisation and other sector colleagues as appropriate
  • To attend and lead all relevant project meetings within the Trust
  • Provide timely and effective advice and leadership working with managers and staff
  • Provide written reports on project progress, including risks and issues
  • To co-ordinate and support ongoing developments to the quality improvement frameworks
  • To support and lead on specific programmes of work to deliver agreed priorities. To assist in supporting teams to develop quality improvement projects to ensure the priorities are sustained and surpassed by identifying and linking both with existing means of corporate support and with other clinical teams.
  • Provide expert advice on the development of new models of quality improvement, patient care, innovation and improvement, ensuring that the Trust's plans reflect new and best practice.
  • To ensure all reporting mechanisms are in place

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential


  • Academic, professional or Business Management qualification to graduate degree or equivalent level qualification or experience
  • Completion of project management skills course, e.g. PRINCE2
  • Evidence of continual personal learning and development

Desirable


  • Higher degree or management qualification

Experience

Essential


  • Significant experience managing services in complex healthcare setting
  • Successful track record of staff, financial, performance and change management
  • Project management experience
  • In depth knowledge of the national and local health context
  • Understanding of current issues and challenges within health care delivery in London and in the wider NHS
  • Effective presentational skills including presentation to Directors and public meetings.

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential


  • Demonstrate the ability to handle technical, complex, sensitive or contentious information and present this to a variety of audiences where significant barriers to acceptance may exist
  • Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams to effect change in a complex and rapidly changing environment
  • Ability to act independently with minimal guidelines
  • IT skills
  • Ability to analyse national and local policy, identify implications for the Trust and develop Trust policy and objectives to reflect this

Employer details

Employer name

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Charing Cross Hospital

London

W6 8RF

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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