Quality Improvement Lead

• Engage with staff and patients to ensure everyone knows about QI and feels empowered and energised to see improving care as a key part of their role.
• Build improvement capability through a programme of QI education to enable staff to lead, champion and coach QI activities and initiatives within their teams.
• Support teams to deliver focused QI projects and programmes which are co-designed with patients, service-users and the public.
• Embed consistent and rigorous improvement methods when addressing all practical problems and strategic opportunities within the organisation.
  
  

The post holder, will provide expertise in improvement methodology and measurement. They will be responsible for the delivery of a trust-wide QI education programme, provision of support and guidance to staff members conducting QI projects, promoting engagement in QI, monitoring QI activities and outputs and promoting the spread of learning from QI activities to other departments.

The post holder will play an instrumental role in providing corporate leadership and support for a portfolio of improvement projects, promoting clinical engagement in QI amongst our staff and ensuring that learning from QI projects is shared and spread.

The post holder will work with senior leaders in the organisation to develop and enable quality improvement within the Trust.

• Support ongoing development and implementation of the Quality Improvement (QI) strategy and review on a yearly basis
• Lead on the Whittington Health QI programme
• Contribute and collaborate on Quality Account Priorities and goals, actively leading on relevant projects that form part of the Quality Account Priorities
• Provide leadership and improvement expertise for an allocated set of QI projects to maximise engagement, impact and learning.
• Design and deliver teaching in QI on a Trust-wide basis, building organisational QI capacity and capability with other key staff
• Act as an organisational expert on key elements of the IHI Model for Improvement QI methodology e.g. use of data and measurement in QI
• Act to maximise the following; co-design and co-production of QI projects with patients, clients and services users engaged in QI activity, communication of QI project outcomes and fostering topic based or service-based QI collaborations.
• Seek out opportunities and represent the Trust QI function at internal and external events and networks. Develop relationships with NCL QI collaborative and UCLP academic health science network.
  
  

We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.

Our mission

Helping local people live longer, healthier lives.

Our vision

Provide safe, personal, co-ordinated care for the community we serve.

Our goals

We have developed six key strategic goals to make sure we continue to support people to live longer, healthier lives.

• To secure the best possible health and wellbeing for all our community
• To integrate and coordinate care in person-centred teams
• To deliver consistent, high quality, safe services
• To support our patients and users in being active partners in their care
• To be recognised as a leader in the fields of medical and multi-professional education, and population-based clinical research
• To innovate and continuously improve the quality of our services to deliver the best outcomes for our local population
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Matthew Minter Job title: Associate Director of Quality Governance Email address: Matthew.Minter3@nhs.net Telephone number: 07917 555408