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We are looking to recruit a full time, permanent Improvement Advisor in the Quality Directorate department based at Kirklands - NHSL Headquarters.
It will be the post holders responsibility to support the Head of Improvement in the delivery of a portfolio of Quality projects designed to support delivery of the highest quality health and care services in NHS Lanarkshire through monitoring and using performance, quality and safety data to identify issues that need to be addressed and taking follow-up action to improve the quality of the care and services delivered. They will actively promote safe and reliable person centred healthcare, an open, just and fair culture and achievement of the aims and goals of the NHS Lanarkshire Quality Strategy. The improvement programmes and work streams which support the Quality Strategy are innovative and complex and will focus on developing, testing, reliable implementation and spread of improvements that demonstrate safe, person centred, reliable and effective care for patients and support the achievement of the board’s organisational wide patient safety aims and goals. This will include reporting to the Senior Improvement Advisor and providing assurance to the Head of Improvement and will contribute to supporting relevant Executive Sponsors, Clinical Leads, Multidisciplinary teams and the overall development and performance of staff involved in Quality Strategy improvement work. The post holder will teach, facilitate, coach, mentor as well as promote the use of improvement science and best international and national practice in improving the quality of care and reducing harm across NHS Lanarkshire.
The following knowledge, training and/or experience is required:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience operating at a senior level.
- Improvement Advisor/SPSP Fellow – and or expert level in improvement science and its practical application in health and care settings
- Evidence and experience of leading improvement programmes in patient safety or other areas that have delivered improvements to patient care
- Practical experience of project/programme management and the management of change.
- Experience of working with key stakeholders, demonstrable evidence of influencing and successfully implementing change and improvement in a complex environment
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Skills: Leadership
- Credible and visible leadership is required to enable and support successful implementation of patient safety improvement across NHS Lanarkshire. Specifically the Improvement Advisor will manage and monitor the delivery and implementation of improvement programmes/projects.
- Advising on the scope, aims, objectives and key success factors of improvement programmes in association with key stakeholders and to ensure that the Project Charters and programme plans, infrastructure and related project/programme documentation are in place and remain relevant and up to date.
Informal enquiries regarding the post will be welcomed by Marjorie McGinty, Clinical Governance, on Marjorie.McGinty@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
For queries regarding the application form or recruitment process only , please contact jane.davies@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk stating the job title and reference number in the subject. Please note: all job related queries must be directed to the informal contact noted above.
‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’
Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.
NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any Worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by UK Visas and Immigrations. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk. Skilled worker Visa and all current immigration rules are available at www.gov.uk
