Improvement Advisor - Lanarkshire, United Kingdom - NHS Scotland

NHS Scotland

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Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Please note this is a Fixed Term/Secondment post - 1 year (Part Time 22.5 hours per week)

This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Improvement Advisor to join our Medical Education Team at NHS Lanarkshire.

The post holder will actively promote safe and reliable person centred healthcare, an open, just and fair culture and achievement of the aims and goals of the NHS Lanarkshire Quality Strategy.

The improvement programmes and work streams which support the Quality Strategy are innovative and complex and will focus on developing, testing, reliable implementation and spread of improvements that demonstrate safe, person centred, reliable and effective care for patients and support the achievement of the board's organisational wide patient safety aims and goals.

Knowledge, Training and/or Experience Required to do the Job:

Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
Significant experience operating at a senior level.
Credible and visible leadership is required to enable and support successful implementation of patient safety improvement across NHS Lanarkshire. Specifically the Improvement Advisor will manage and monitor the delivery and implementation of improvement programmes/projects.
Advising on the scope, aims, objectives and key success factors of improvement programmes in association with key stakeholders and to ensure that the Project Charters and programme plans, infrastructure and related project/programme documentation are in place and remain relevant and up to date.
Evidence and experience of leading improvement programmes in patient safety or other areas that have delivered improvements to patient care
Practical experience of project/programme management and the management of change.
Experience of working with key stakeholders, demonstrable evidence of influencing and successfully implementing change and improvement in a complex environment
Evidence of ongoing professional development

'In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children's setting/secure unit.'

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence

NHS Lanarkshire Recruitment Website

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