Improvement Advisor

**The Role**:
We are looking to recruit a Improvement Advisor to join our Improvement Team based at Kirklands - NHSL Headquarters

This will include reporting to the Senior Improvement Advisor and providing assurance to the Head of Improvement, as well as contributing to supporting relevant Executive Sponsors, Clinical Leads, Multidisciplinary teams and the overall development and performance of staff involved in Quality Strategy improvement work.

The Improvement Advisor will teach, facilitate, coach, mentor as well as promote the use of improvement science and best international and national practice, in improving the quality of care and reducing harm across NHS Lanarkshire.

**Contract type**:
2x Vacancies available / Band 7 / Permanent / Part time / 30 hours

**NHS Lanarkshire**:
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

**Why join NHS Lanarkshire?**

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire benefits include:

- A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service (pro-rata for part time staff)
- A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
- Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
- Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
- Occupational health services
- Employee Counselling services
- Work-life Balance policies and procedures
- NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

**What we'll need you to bring**:

- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience operating at a senior level.
- Evidence and experience of leading improvement programmes in patient safety or other areas that have delivered improvements to patient care
- Practical experience of project/programme management and the management of change.
- Experience of working with key stakeholders, demonstrable evidence of influencing and successfully implementing change and improvement in a complex environment
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Credible and visible leadership skills

**It would be great if you also have**:

- Significant experience as a NHS manager with experience operating at a senior corporate level.
- Practical experience of project / programme management and the management of change.
- Experience of working with key stakeholders, demonstrable evidence of influencing and successfully implementing change and improvement in a complex environment
- Evidence and experience of leading and or facilitating improvement programmes in patient safety or other areas that have delivered improvements to patient care

**Looking to find out more?**

If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you

**Further Information**:
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.
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**Additional Information for Applicants**

In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
- Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

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