Band 7

Job summary

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 be 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.

Main duties of the job

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 local level and advise on the delivery of this.
• To support local and trust wide QI projects / programmes as required.

About us

The Quality Improvement Team sits within the Clinical Quality Directorate, and comprises of 2 Quality Support Officers, a QI Lead, QI Clinical Lead and QI Associate Director. We are a friendly, innovative and proactive team who are involved in a variety improvement activity from Executive level to locally-led projects. We have a comprehensive induction and training process through our competency framework and continual development is highly valued in the team.