Senior Improvement and Transformation Lead

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Improvement and Transformation Manager to join our Improvement and Transformation team at LGT.

Our team aim is to teach, coach and deliver improvement-led change for the benefit of our population and colleagues. We'll achieve this by:

• Providing specialised improvement and transformation expertise, using an improvement led approach to support both bottom-up and top-down priorities


• Promoting a culture of continuous improvement behaviours and habits, that are enabled by leadership and runs through everything we do


• Building capability in improvement, so that everyone is empowered with the knowledge and tools to make changes in their everyday work and in the things that matter most to our colleagues, patients and communities


• Networking and collaborating with other departments, groups and system partners to identify opportunities for improvement


• Facilitating the routine use of measurement for improvement principles to understand, track and improve performance


More detail on our approach is available on our improvement hub: https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/improvementhub

We are keen to hear from a diverse range of candidates and value transferable skills and experience. We offer a wide range of training and development options for our team including the opportunity to join our Level 5 Improvement Coach Specialist apprenticeship., As a Senior Improvement and Transformation Lead the postholder will strategically lead and enable delivery of improvement and transformation programmes and projects that are aligned to our strategic goals. They will support the creation of a culture of continuous improvement across the Trust and wider system including in our three Local Care Partnerships of Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham and in our Integrated Care Partnership and Acute Provider Collaborative. Key to the role is the use of a broad range of transformation skills to support teams to improve population outcomes, the quality, safety and experience of patient care, and staff experience.

The postholder will lead on the design and implementation of improvement and transformation programmes that deliver evidence-based solutions to our strategic priorities. This includes developing and delivering project and programme plans, designing and delivering projects using agreed improvement methodologies, risk management, budgets, business cases and benefits realisation plans. The postholder will provide updates and high-level communication at a strategic level to governance groups and stakeholders. They will also develop plans to integrate programme outcomes into business as usual. The postholder will design and deliver training in agreed methodologies to staff and patients., 1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations