Discharge Improvement Lead

Overview

This is a system role, as opposed to organisational role, so you will be tasked with delivering a programme of work without the control of resources. Instead, you will work collaboratively, with all system partners, to agree priorities of transformation and ultimately delivery of these priorities.

• Do you have integrity, vision and tenacity and can you work across a complex system leading evidence based improvement?
• Do you work in a strength based way using appreciative inquiry?
• Have you got drive and able to lead with compassion while challenging the status quo?
• Have you got experience of implementing change across organisations?
• Are you proactive and able to influence without formal authority across different providers working within the Derbyshire system?

Working with partners, you will lead the process to enable decision making regarding options for improvement; this will be objective, evidence based and benchmark against best practice from other systems. The job will require matrix working, strong influencing and negotiating skills with the ability to form trusted relationships at all levels of the system. You will also be required to have highly developed organisational skills, with a proven history of leading change across organisational boundaries.

You will be seen as a trusted, and impartial role model.

The post holder will champion improvement. Engaging with and motivating colleagues to generate and implement ideas to nurture an improvement culture.

The post holder will effectively communicate with all system stakeholders at varying levels of expertise and responsibility.

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.

During the pandemic response we have led the implementation of public vaccination centres in collaboration with partners across health and social care.