Continuous Improvement Lead

This position offers an exciting opportunity for an inspiring leader to join our improvement function, taking our Trust to the next level of achievement. We are entering a new era with an accelerated pace for improvement, embracing opportunities to achieve excellence using the latest thinking in improvement science and lean methodologies.
The post holder will have a pivotal role in this new world, ensuring safety is at the heart of everything we do. Key to this is the delivery of our Improvement Plan with responsibility for a number of key programmes and development of skilled improvement specialists across the trust.
The post holder will lead several large-scale change programmes in a range of services across the hospital and wider health economy, they will demonstrate the ability to cut through the complexity of going to scale, understand engagement methods, measurement and barriers to success. They will be an experienced programme manager with the ability to deliver on multiple projects and support colleagues trust wide on the next phase of our journey.
The post holder will also lead an effective improvement capability dosing strategy to managers, front line staff, new starters and senior leaders, ensuring that we measure, monitor and evaluate the outputs.
The creation of strong and meaningful engagement with patients, the public and staff is critical to this post to grow the understanding of impact of service delivery and inform both immediate and future improvement priorities.
The post holder will lead on the development and promotion of clinical audit systems and processes across the trust which will include supporting completion of identified priority clinical audits and raising awareness of evidence-based practice. The post holder will also support and inspire others to meet the needs of the clinical audit agenda. This will include monitoring implementation of the Trust’s annual clinical audit programme and ensuring learning from clinical audit that maintains / improves the quality of patient care is communicated effectively and acted upon at service level.
Liverpool Women’s delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career.
We value the contribution of individual talent and are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the local community. We will consider requests for flexible working on hiring.
Our core value is to ‘ Be Kind’ and we have an ambition to ‘Be Brilliant’ with the best people, giving the safest care, to provide outstanding experiences.
Quality Improvement through strategic leadership
Understand the culture of the NHS and the context for driving change through large scale change programmes and local improvement initiatives.
Provide leadership to large scale change programmes
Responsible for overseeing design and delivery of the Trust capability building strategy, taking into account programme planning, measurement, existing assets and challenges.
Lead development of a process for quality improvement to ensure contextual components and processes of care lead to significant improvements in patient care.
Using quality improvement and / or lean, Six-Sigma knowledge and expertise, the role will develop a continuous study of the Trust’s processes to ensure quality throughout the patient and staff journeys.
Ensure the patients and families are involved in improvement work, interacting with service users where appropriate.
To explore and develop the potential to incorporate quality improvement into all aspects of learning.
Ensure each change project undertaken by the Trust is linked to accepted methods and evaluation processes.
Work with the Associate Director of Quality & Governance to develop long term strategies on the areas requiring quality improvement.
Design, planning and delivery
Lead programme management, planning and oversight of large programmes of work with several large projects running simultaneously. This will include a broad range of complex activities.
Identify key personnel and skills required to deliver the strategy and oversee the appointments process if required.
Set up governance and reporting mechanisms for performance to be measured against deliverables.
Implement new ways of working, taking a collaborative approach across the whole system.
Oversee measurement analysts to ensure all training and outcomes are supported by appropriate measures.
Lead quality improvement activities and project timelines.
Lead on taking evidence-based ideas and translating them into quality improvement offerings, moving them from concept through to execution.
Ensure the Trust is at the cutting edge and learns from the latest thinking in quality improvement and other leading research for delivering change at scale.
Ensures quality improvement methodology is utilised, where appropriate, in the delivery of the transformation priorities
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