Job summary
Are you experienced using improvement methodology and delivering projects?
Are you passionate about improving healthcare services?
Do you want to work in a friendly, and supportive team?
This permanent Improvement Lead post is a great opportunity to further your healthcare improvement and project management skills, whilst working in a successful, dynamic team.
Main duties of the job
The core elements of the role include:
- Project management and support
- Service improvement and redesign skills
- Facilitation and communication expertise
- Building staff capability for improvement through training, coaching, and mentoring.
About us
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Educated to degree level / healthcare professional qualification or equivalent relevant experience
- Project management or improvement methodology training
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Public Sector Language Competency
Essential
- Be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of participating in a project team delivering improvement
- Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams
Desirable
- Health or social care setting experience
- Experience of designing and planning improvement projects
- Knowledge and experience of project management, quality improvement and/or change management concepts and methodologies
- Experience in training staff
Aptitudes
Essential
- Able to work independently or as part of a team
- Able to prioritise own workload effectively
- Self-motivated with a positive can-do attitude
- Flexible and adaptable to work across all Trust sites, and respond to changes to allocated work.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to facilitate group discussions
- Able to engage, persuade, negotiate and influence others to adopt new working practices
- Strong communication skills - verbal, written and presentational - and able to communicate complex, sensitive and contentious information as necessary
- Proven problem solving skills - ability to review processes and systems, and identify issues that need to be resolved
- Ability to use a range of IT application, including Microsoft Office products
- Analytical skills - ability to gather and interpret relevant information for improvement projects
- Ability to work with staff and service users in a variety of settings
Desirable
- Ability to make decisions required to deliver improvement projects
- Ability to use quality improvement tools
- Ability to use project management tools
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Educated to degree level / healthcare professional qualification or equivalent relevant experience
- Project management or improvement methodology training
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Public Sector Language Competency
Essential
- Be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of participating in a project team delivering improvement
- Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams
Desirable
- Health or social care setting experience
- Experience of designing and planning improvement projects
- Knowledge and experience of project management, quality improvement and/or change management concepts and methodologies
- Experience in training staff
Aptitudes
Essential
- Able to work independently or as part of a team
- Able to prioritise own workload effectively
- Self-motivated with a positive can-do attitude
- Flexible and adaptable to work across all Trust sites, and respond to changes to allocated work.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to facilitate group discussions
- Able to engage, persuade, negotiate and influence others to adopt new working practices
- Strong communication skills - verbal, written and presentational - and able to communicate complex, sensitive and contentious information as necessary
- Proven problem solving skills - ability to review processes and systems, and identify issues that need to be resolved
- Ability to use a range of IT application, including Microsoft Office products
- Analytical skills - ability to gather and interpret relevant information for improvement projects
- Ability to work with staff and service users in a variety of settings
Desirable
- Ability to make decisions required to deliver improvement projects
- Ability to use quality improvement tools
- Ability to use project management tools
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)
Address
Bristol Royal Infirmary
Upper Maudlin St
Bristol
BS2 8HW
Employer's website
https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
