Band 7 Quality Improvement Lead

Overview

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county. We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care.

We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking 'what matters to you'. We’re passionate about ensuring that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust. This role is offered on a fixed term/secondment basis for 9 months.

The hours are part-time, 30 hours per week. Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment.

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• Training and Development: develop, plan and deliver Quality Improvement training for teams in line with the Trust's approved improvement methodology; evaluate training performance and take proactive action to improve delivery, learning outcomes and impact; ensure effective use of training resources, minimising costs and avoiding waste.
• Improvement Projects: lead on assigned improvement projects, ensuring adherence to the GHC improvement methodology and robust application of improvement principles; provide guidance, coaching and support to improvement projects to achieve quantifiable and sustainable improvements to quality, performance and efficiency; ensure Quality Improvement work identifies clear measurable outcomes and demonstrates realised benefits.
• Stakeholder and Data Management: maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders at all levels; drive data analysis to support improvement projects and help colleagues understand their data; analyse data from various sources and communicate findings in a clear and accessible way.
• Collaboration and Support: work with QI Managers to enable staff to link improvement work with the Trust-wide annual clinical audit process; support colleagues to understand potential health inequities and drive QI to improve identified health inequities in line with the Trust's Better Health strategic aim; support value stream mapping sessions to identify quality and cost factors informing strategic cost improvement programme initiatives.
• People and Practice: provide guidance, support and coaching to project leads, project team members including Experts by Lived Experience; establish strong relationships across directorates to ensure evidence-based practice in facilitation of improvement and redesign, delivering high-quality clinical care.

• Proven experience in developing, planning, delivering, and reviewing training programmes.
• Strong knowledge of Quality Improvement tools and methodologies.
• Experience in guiding, coaching and supporting improvement projects.
• A passion for building a culture where improvement thrives every day.
• Confident and effective communicator.

• A skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5,000 colleagues across 55+ sites and in people’s homes.
• Comprehensive employment terms, including generous leave, development opportunities, and access to NHS benefits.
• Flexible, family-friendly and agile working opportunities; pension and other financial and wellbeing benefits.
• Opportunities for progression, apprenticeships up to Level 7, preceptorship programmes for Newly Qualified practitioners, and various staff engagement initiatives.
• Applicants are advised to apply early; we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date if a high number of applications are received.