Continuous Improvement Lead

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The post holder is a key member of the transformation team at LNWH to focus on clinical configuration and lead on embedding the principles of continuous improvement.The post holder will actively seek opportunities for innovative improvement projects and work with key stakeholders within the specialties across all sites to promote the uptake and delivery of such projects.The post holder will be required to support the transformation team to roll out improvement capability across all London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust sites and to facilitate the integration of these methods into everyday practice in order to provide excellent care as standard.You must have an engaging personality, a belief in the need to continuously improve and the methods to enable this. You will be integral to facilitating and overseeing improvement programmes and projects, working with staff to develop pilot projects, targeted support to enable delivery of programmes, harnessing the triple aim of quality, experience and value at their core. Working across all staff groups, and seniority mentoring and coaching individuals and teams around specific local initiatives.Supporting the development and implementation of improvement methodologies to be adopted across the Trust and working alongside other team members to ensure that the right training and support is in place in order to allow for these methodologies to be effectively deployed.The post holder will be expected to act autonomously ensuring that daily tasks and ongoing workloads are prioritised and completed in agreed timeframes and will be asked to (on occasions) deputise for programme directors. S/he must have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to hold colleagues to account, and work with service teams to understand their accountabilities and responsibilities.London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWUH) is one of the integrated NHS Trusts in the country. Our team of more than 8,000 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of approximately one million people providing hospital services to the people of Brent, Harrow and beyond.We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.To find out more about our Trust, why not view our video we are London North West University HealthcareLNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation; we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chloe Cox Job title: Head of Implementation Email address: chloe.cox@nhs.net