The need to drive quality improvement across health and care services has never been greater. The Quality Improvement Lead will make a real contribution to improving the quality of care across Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust by enabling capability and capacity to deliver continuous quality improvement across our services.
The Quality Improvement Lead will provide leadership to effectively enable our Quality Improvement Programme. As a specialist in QI, they will enable a growing body of staff to establish, run, and evaluate improvement and will offer a can-do attitude to tackle issues that arise in quality improvement projects. They will support others to drive improvement with a facilitation role that has a distinct focus on training and coaching, as well as being a champion for the programme by engaging staff at multiple forums, events, meetings, etc., and through a business partner model across the trust.
Please note: This role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not already have the right to work in the UK are unable to be considered for this position.
The post holder will be based in the Clinical Quality Division. Core duties will include:
* Communicates with internal and external stakeholders to ensure engagement with improvement activities requiring negotiation and diplomacy skills; undertakes presentations to staff groups and the public which conveys information in an atmosphere of positive change.
* To work with the Associate Director of QI to ensure the Trust has robust systems and processes in place to enable continuous improvement.
* To support and undertake, where appropriate, the analysis and triangulation of quality-related data and information in relation to clinical quality performance to identify issues and areas where improvement is required.
* Drafting reports, often with complex information and analysis for a variety of committees, meetings, and boards.
* To ensure that national and legal requirements and innovations are identified and adopted where required.
* To keep abreast of relevant national legislative and policy requirements and ensure that key requirements are identified and adopted when required.
* To support the operational teams to develop a QI culture at the local level and advise on the delivery of this.
* To support local and trust-wide QI projects/programmes as required.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, and adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
* Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support.
* Variety of working environments across the community, in patients homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county.
* Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement options.
* Excellent training and development opportunities.
* Research opportunities.
* Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton.
* Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+, and Religion and Belief staff networks.
* Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces.
* Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA).
* Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast.
* Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff.
For further details/informal visits contact: Name: Gillian McTaggart Job title: Associate Director Quality Improvement Email address: gillian.mctaggart2@nhs.net Telephone number: 07387257357
I work Mon to Thurs 0900-1700.
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