Quality Improvement Lead - Health Innovation North West Coast

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.