Job reference: 222474
Salary: Band 6 (£41,608 - £50,702)
Job closing date: 13/08/2025
Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery
Location: Western Isles Hospital
Employment type: Fixed-term or Secondment
Hours Per Week: 37
Job posted date: 30/07/2025
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Western Isles
Department: Clinical Governance

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WESTERN ISLES HEALTH BOARD, , STORNOWAY, ISLE OF LEWIS HS1 2BN

Quality Improvement Co-ordinator (Nurse)

Band 6 £41,608 - £50,702 per annum

Plus Distant Islands Allowance of £1,406 per annum

37 hours per week

Fixed Term or Secondment Post – 12 months


An exciting opportunity exists for an enthusiastic and positive person to join the Clinical Governance and Professional Practice Team as Quality Improvement Co-ordinator. The post holder will play a key role in supporting Nursing Quality Improvement Projects throughout NHS Western Isles including Excellence in Care and the Health Care Staffing Programme.


The post is based in Stornoway at the Western Isles Health Board and the post holder will be required to travel between sites; this may also involve significant travel.

You will possess excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills and be supporting frontline teams. You will work with external stakeholders in Healthcare Improvement Scotland and senior management to maximise an integrated multidisciplinary approach to the Quality and Safety Agenda, using the Model of Improvement methodology.

For an informal discussion, please contact Louise Sullivan, Head of Clinical Governance and Professional Practice Tel: 01851 708026/email louise.sullivan1@nhs.scot

The successful applicant will be required to register with the PVG Scheme (Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme). This post is not eligible for relocation expenses.


All NHS Western Isles vacancies appear on the NHS Scotland website: apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk, along with a job description.

Tha beàrnan-obrach NHS Eilean Siar uile gu léir a' nochdadh air làrach-lìn NHS na h-Alba https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/, còmhla ri dealbh-obrach.


If you have any further queries, please contact Tel: 01851 762027.


CLOSING DATE: 13/08/2025




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