Improvement lead

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.
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
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.
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.