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Senior Improvement Advisor – 3 posts (Ref: 169584)
£56,992 - £61,522 (Band 8A)
Full time (37.5 hours per week)
Fixed term contract/secondment to December 2025
Edinburgh/Glasgow - hybrid working will apply for the foreseeable future (all roles require routine travel for in-person meetings, workshops and events)
Healthcare Improvement Scotland is the national improvement agency for health and social care in Scotland, supporting health and social care services to improve across all our work programmes. We are seeking to recruit Senior Improvement Advisors to our People Led Care Portfolio and Primary Care Improvement Portfolio.
In these roles, you will work closely with senior leaders to drive impactful system change. You will be the delivery lead responsible for the overall management of a programme, providing relationship management, improvement and redesign expertise, and quality improvement support. The roles require pace, adaptability and the ability to navigate complexity. The ideal candidates will work autonomously and be proactive problem-solvers. If you are a forward-thinking person with a proven track record of leading national improvement programmes, we look forward to receiving your application.
Coming Home Programme, People-Led Care Portfolio – 1 post, full time, fixed term to December 2025
The Coming Home Programme is part of the Community Engagement and System Redesign Directorate. This programme is designed to bring people with complex learning disabilities home to their own communities, reducing the use of out of area placements.
The focus of the programme is to set up and deliver a Peer Support Network. The network will bring together professionals from Health and Social Care Partnerships and other stakeholders, including family members and housing and third sector organisations. The network will cover identified themes and will support areas to learn from each other, identify challenges and support each other to come up with solutions. The delivery lead will identify how best to ensure that participants are supported to implement these solutions. This will include providing targeted improvement support to individual areas. Candidates will bring an understanding of the social work and social care sector and the current challenges and opportunities within that sector.
Please note that Healthcare Improvement Scotland offices are closed over the festive period. For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Chris Sutton, Portfolio Lead, at chris.sutton@nhs.scot by Monday 18 December 2023.
Primary Care Phased Investment Programme, Primary Care Improvement Portfolio – 2 posts, full time, fixed term to December 2025
Are you passionate about leading improvement? We are looking for two Senior Improvement Advisors to join our team. You will lead our new Primary Care Phased Investment Programme.
The Primary Care Phased Investment Programme aims to:
- improve implementation of the General Medical Services (GMS) contract with a focus on pharmacotherapy and community treatment and care (CTAC) services
- develop a culture of continuous improvement across primary care settings, and
- build evidence to understand the national context for implementation.
Please note that Healthcare Improvement Scotland offices are closed over the festive period. For an informal discussion about these posts, please contact April Masson, Portfolio Lead, at april.masson@nhs.scot before Thursday 21 December 2023.
To find out more about our work and the teams delivering these programmes we would also encourage you to visit our website.
Role Specifications
We are looking for people educated to degree level with either a master’s degree in a relevant subject or with equivalent knowledge and experience in improving health and social care services.
Successful candidates will be motivated individuals with a passion for improvement who are able to demonstrate experience of applying a range of improvement methods within different contexts. They will have a track record of working with a wide range of senior stakeholders in health and social care settings. As natural communicators, successful candidates will relish the opportunity to network effectively and motivate and support people to achieve change.
If you have the skills and are passionate about improving the quality of care for people using and working in health and social care services, we want to hear from you.
Closing Date: Wednesday 03 January 2024 at midnight.
It is anticipated that interviews will be held in-person at Delta House, Glasgow on Friday 19 January 2024 and Gyle Square, Edinburgh on Tuesday 23 January 2024.