Quality Improvement Lead - Health Innovation North West Coast

Work closely with the Patient Safety and Care Improvement senior leadership team to deliver national patient safety programmes.
Be regarded as an 'Expert Quality Improvement Practitioner and Coach' by colleagues in the Patient Safety Team and the wider organisation.
Present, train, mentor and coach staff both internally and across the system in a broad variety of models and frameworks of quality improvement and implementation science, sustainability approaches and evaluation.
Design and deliver quality improvement programmes of agreed improvement projects and work-streams to support delivery of of the national patient safety programmes
Supporting others to develop and deliver their own improvement projects using the agreed improvement tools and techniques by mentoring and coaching them throughout their project

Working for our organisation
Health and care systems around the world are facing an unprecedented challenge. Demand on health and care services requires us to rethink how we help people to stay healthy and support them to manage health conditions. Tackling this challenge requires the healthcare system to innovate, improve and evolve how health and care services are delivered. This is where the role of Health Innovation Networks come in.
Established by NHS England in 2013 as one of fifteen Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), the renamed Health Innovation North West Coast (HINWC) is licensed by NHS England to support the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System and Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System.
As the only organisations that connect the NHS and academic institutions, local authorities, the third sector and industry, Health Innovation Networks help facilitate positive change across whole health and social care economies, with a clear focus on improving outcomes for patients. We are uniquely placed to identify and spread health innovation effectively and efficiently supporting the adoption and spread of innovation across large populations and undertaking large scale improvement programmes.
As a result of the wide range of work we undertake Health Innovation Networks are unique in the mix of people they employ from the NHS with managerial and clinical backgrounds, from industry and from the academic sector. and non-NHS backgrounds., The successful candidate will be an integral member of the Patient Safety and Care Improvement team which is responsible for delivering projects of varying size and complexity. The role offers a chance to improve the quality of healthcare across the North West Coast and participate in large scale improvement and patient safety projects being led across England.
They will be tasked with identifying and implementing quality and efficiency improvements across a portfolio of national programmes. They will ensure that improvements are quality focused, embedded within the clinical and corporate services and are wherever possible, cash releasing.
The Improvement Lead will work with the Head of Programmes for Patient Safety and Senior Programme Managers to enable the identification, scoping, agreement and delivery of specific quality and efficiency improvement projects and programmes and help to deliver a culture of continuous improvement. Improvement Leads will not only help deliver a number of specific projects and work streams but more importantly will be tasked with supporting and embedding a culture of continuous improvement and capability across our Integrated Care Systems. The Improvement Lead as part of the Patient Safety and Care Improvement Team will be "QI Experts" and as such able to provide guidance and coaching to others for improvement projects.
They will have responsibility for the engagement and mobilisation of a variety of Quality Improvement initiatives supporting the delivery of our programmes an in alignment of the work of our Coaching Academy focussing on leadership and culture development, education and workforce planning supporting needs identified through work with our wider partners, organisations and systems.
The post holder will provide a key role in the delivery of strategy for growth of the Patient Safety and Care Improvement Team and in engagement of partners and stakeholders. They will be instrumental in the successful mobilisation of a variety of improvement programmes. This will entail working closely with the Head of Programmes (Patient Safety) to maintain the reputation and quality assurance of high standards of business processes, support, delivery and customer relationship management.

The post holder will be an expert in Quality Improvement and will lead on quality improvement initiatives and on the facilitation and delivery of elements of the National Patient Safety Improvement Programmes. They will have the ability to create a culture and commitment to Quality Improvement throughout Health Innovation North West Coast footprint.
It demands an individual of considerable experience in quality improvement methodology, with particularly dexterous and adept people skills, business capabilities, project management, as well as strong motivational and leadership qualities.
There is a requirement to work collaboratively internally and externally, maintaining good relationships, as well as independently and to strict timelines and to bring a unique blend of business acumen, improvement, workforce and education expertise to programmes.
The post holder will develop a strong network of colleagues across the region, and with NHS England. They will have the capacity, experience and understanding to provide leadership direction to ensure timely delivery of programmes on time and to desired standards.
The role will require some travel across the North West Coast.