The Programme is a unique one for the organisation in terms of breadth, depth and timescale.
The Quality Improvement Advisor provides leadership to clinical teams within the directorates to ensure delivery of effective and efficient programs to drive continuous improvements in healthcare service delivery. This post is one of five Quality Improvement Advisors who together are responsible for a broad portfolio of quality improvement initiatives and interactions across the Trust
The Quality Improvement Advisor will play a key role in three main areas of support that the Quality improvement team provides to the trust:
Direct support to front line services to transform and improve the quality of the service they provide to patients
Development and delivery of Qi projects that may span multiple service areas
Building quality improvement capability in our workforce through the design and delivery of development programmes, training, mentoring and coaching
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who has experience of making change happen. You will have a proven track record of working with frontline staff to deliver significant improvements to service quality with evidence of benefits and significant experience of using data and measurement for improvement.
This post offers an excellent opportunity to work within a forward thinking organisation that puts quality at the heart of what we do, further develop our quality system and enhance the quality of the services we provide for those with lived experience, staff and other stakeholders.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care
Key Task and Responsibilities
Quality Improvement
Provide leadership, facilitation and specialist support to teams
undertaking improvement projects, using recognised QI methodology to maximise motivation, engagement, impact and learning
Work collaboratively with clinical, non-clinical, corporate and managerial colleagues at all levels within the organisation to identify quality improvement opportunities and share and spread opportunities
Train staff, those with lived experience and carers in improvement methods and tools
In discussion with the Assistant Director of Quality Management, agree programmes of work that you will lead and deliver
To provide specialist training in quality improvement for a range of audiences
To collate, provide and analyse qualitative and quantitative information relating to patient care/outcomes when required.
Provide support in the measurement and use of data for improvement projects
Work with frontline teams on the identification, collection, analysis and interpretation of data for use in the monitoring or the impact of the projects. This will include presenting data in a variety of formats, bar charts, statistical process control charts
Work with project sponsors to set time scales and project deliverables which are reviewed regularly and take corrective action where required
To support the development, updating and maintenance of the Trust wide QI programme plan
Development and delivery of QI projects that may span multiple service areas
Planning and organising a number of complex QI programmes some of which may require adjustments
Implement policies for own work area and suggest changes to improve performance that have wider implications
Finance
In discussion with the Assistant Director of Quality Management, ensure that appropriate resources and equipment are available at all times to support the programmes
Report job
