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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
Post Title: Improvement Officer
Salary: NHS: Band 6 £37,831 - £46,100
Council: Grade 8 £39,125* - £42,355*
*Pay award pending
Hours: NHS: 37.5 hours Council: 35 hours
Tenure: NHS: Permanent Council: Fixed Term for 23 months
Location: Council Offices, 16 Church Street, Dumbarton
West Dunbartonshire HSCP is seeking to appoint to an exciting and challenging role of Improvement Officer within its Strategy and Transformation Team. The successful candidates will be joining a team responsible for a diversity of activity and where a shared passion exists to support the HSCP with improvement across all of its activities.
The Improvement Officer is responsible for quality oversight and improvement planning in all areas of governance and compliance, and the analysis of subsequent themes in order to support West Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) ability in continuing to increase quality control and exceed the requirements and regulations set by other stakeholders.
The Improvement Officer will collaborate effectively with stakeholders from across West Dunbartonshire HSCP, SSSC, Care Inspectorate, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and other local authorities/health boards who share a focus on supporting improvements to the successful delivery of health and social care provision.
One of the roles will initially support the HSCP Children and Families Section with service improvement and design activity. Working with people who use services, senior leaders, managers, practitioners and other stakeholders, excellent partnership working skills and written and verbal communication skills will be required to ensure information and activities are accessible to a variety of audiences.
With a relevant degree, the successful candidates will confidently draw upon their experience of working in a Local Authority or Health setting or similar and using quality assurance and quality improvement methods and techniques to provide expert quality improvement advice to internal and external partners. With essential project management skills, the Improvement Officer will be able to support partners from problem identification through to monitoring the implementation of solutions which bring about improvements in quality.
If you’d like to be part of a team which shares your passion to improve outcomes for staff, people who use services and carers and to drive quality improvement across a diversity of services and projects, please refer to the job description and person specification for more details and contact John Burns, Strategy and Transformation Manager for an informal discussion.
The offer process for the successful candidate will include a discussion on whether the candidate may opt to be employed under NHS terms and conditions or under Council terms and conditions depending on current/previous employment taking into account factors such as continuous service etc.
Contact details for informal contact: John Burns, 07880 472395, John.burns@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs.
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