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Job reference: 007257
Salary: Band 8A (£45,446 - £51,883)
Job closing date: 01/11/2019
Job Type: Administrative Services
Location: Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Glasgow/Edinburgh)
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Job posted date: 14/10/2019
Employer (NHS Board): Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Department: Improvement Support A

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ihub Improvement Advisor with an initial focus on primary care

Permanent

£45,446 - £51,883 (Band 8a)

Edinburgh or Glasgow


An exciting opportunity exists for a proactive, experienced and confident individual to join the Improvement Hub (ihub) within Healthcare Improvement Scotland, which is currently developing a range of new approaches to support improvements in health and social care in Scotland. The successful candidate will co-produce and lead national programmes that spread and embed improvements through a regional approach.


The ihub is looking for someone with improvement expertise that can be applied to any number of topic areas, and welcomes applications from a wide-range of professional backgrounds and sectors. The successful candidate will have a broad understanding of improvement methodologies that can be applied in different contexts and have experience of leading or active involvement in service improvement or service re-design. He/she will combine excellent improvement, communication and analytical skills with a high degree of self-awareness, experience of managing complex relationships in a collaborative environment, experience of coaching or mentoring, and effective project and programme management techniques. He/she will be able to demonstrate their ability to apply their skills to a range of different subject areas. This work will be innovative and complex and focus on developing, testing and spreading a range of approaches to drive safe, effective and person-centred improvements. This role will be instrumental in engaging with a variety of health and social care organisations to deliver a complex programme of work.


The Improvement Advisor will work closely with Portfolio Leads and senior managers to ensure the delivery of Quality Improvement, Quality Management and Quality Assurance requirements. The successful candidate will be responsible for a national improvement theme and their first main focus of work will be on quality improvement in primary care setting, however as the role is ihub wide the successful candidate might be required to support different portfolios based on business demand/requirements.


Closing date: 1 November 2019


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