Improvement Advisor

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:

• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
• Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.

We are seeking a skilled and enthusiastic Improvement Advisor to join our Improvement and Transformation Team. You will help teams across the Trust design, test and embed sustainable improvements that strengthen patient care, staff experience and organisational performance.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with clinical and operational teams, using improvement methodologies, data, coaching and facilitation skills to support meaningful change. You will help teams identify opportunities for improvement, develop innovative solutions and embed a culture of continuous learning and improvement across the organisation.

We are seeking an individual who is passionate about improvement, values collaboration and is motivated by making a positive difference. Whether supporting large-scale transformation programmes or local service improvements, you will play a key role in helping colleagues deliver better outcomes for our communities.

The post holder will lead delegated improvement projects and defined work streams within the Trust’s improvement and transformation portfolio, working under the professional direction of Senior Improvement Advisors and the relevant Associate Director.

Using improvement science, systems thinking, service redesign and programme and project management approaches, the post holder will support teams and partners to understand problems, test and implement change, measure impact and sustain improvement. The role will facilitate improvement activity and larger System and whole pathway transformations. They will also facilitate value management improvement workshops and capability development sessions with teams.

The post holder will work collaboratively with clinical and operational teams, people with lived experience and internal and external partners to improve quality, outcomes, experience, productivity and value.

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part…