Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Quality Improvement Lead
The closing date is 20 February 2026
Do you want to play a key role in building a culture where improvement thrives every day? Are you motivated by the opportunity to work collaboratively with staff, patients, and carers to address challenges creatively and sustainably?
Do you have a passion for helping people learn, grow, and develop their skills?
Are you curious, data‑driven, and committed to applying evidence‑based methods to improve services?
If so, the Quality Improvement Team has an exciting opportunity for an Area Band 7 Quality Improvement Lead.
In this role, you will lead the development, planning, delivery, and review of Gloucestershire Health and Care's Improvement Training Programme. You will also provide expert guidance, coaching, and support to staff leading quality improvement projects across the organisation.
What we're looking for:
* Proven experience in developing, planning, delivering, and reviewing training programmes
* Strong knowledge of Quality Improvement tools and methodologies
* Experience in guiding, coaching, and supporting improvement projects
* A passion for building a culture where improvement thrives every day
* A confident and effective communicator
If you are ready to make a meaningful impact on organisational effectiveness and are committed to supporting a culture where continuous improvement is embedded in everyday practice, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
This role is offered on a fixed‑term/secondment basis for 9 months. The hours are part‑time, 30 hours per week.
Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment.
Training
* Responsible for developing, planning and delivering Quality Improvement training for teams, in line with the Trust's approved improvement methodology.
* Evaluating training performance and taking proactive action to improve delivery, learning outcomes and impact.
* Ensure effective use of training resources, minimising costs, and avoiding unnecessary waste.
* Lead on assigned improvement projects as required, ensuring adherence to the GHC improvement methodology and robust application of improvement principles.
* Provide guidance, coaching and support to improvement projects, ensuring effective application of improvement tools which result in quantifiable and sustainable improvements to quality, performance, and efficiency.
* Ensure Quality Improvement work identifies clear measurable outcomes and can show how benefits have been realised.
* Maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders, maintaining commitment and influencing change at all levels.
* Ensure robust data analysis drives improvement projects and support colleagues with understanding their data.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5 000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services across 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
* 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
* 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
* 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high‑level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top‑quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Job responsibilities
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification
Delivering improvement training
* Responsible for developing, planning and delivering Quality Improvement training for teams, in line with the Trust's approved improvement methodology.
* Providing high quality training in Quality Improvement tools as part of the Quality Improvement training programme.
* Designing, delivering, and facilitating face‑to‑face and online workshops/programmes/events to share good practice and experiences of improving services.
* Raise the profile and support the development of the QI intranet and internet pages. Provide staff with useful links to resources to assist with improvement, initiate and contribute to active discussions and contribute resources to help maintain an up‑to‑date repository of best practice.
* Evaluating training performance and taking proactive action to improve delivery, learning outcomes and impact.
* Ensure effective use of training resources, minimising costs, and avoiding unnecessary waste.
* To lead on assigned improvement projects as required, ensuring adherence to the GHC improvement methodology and robust application of improvement principles.
* Provide guidance, coaching and support to improvement projects, ensuring effective application of improvement tools which result in quantifiable and sustainable improvements to quality, performance, and efficiency.
* Provide guidance, support and coaching to project leads in their improvement activities.
* Provide guidance, support and coaching to project team members including Experts by Lived Experience.
* To ensure that strong relationships are established across all directorates so that evidence‑based practice is applied when facilitating improvement and any redesign, so that high quality standards of clinical care are delivered.
* To ensure Quality Improvement work identifies clear measurable outcomes and can show how benefits have been realised.
* Maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders, maintaining commitment and influencing change at all levels.
* Work with the QI Managers to enable staff to link improvement work with the Trust‑wide annual clinical audit process, providing support with quality improvement methods to audit leads, driving compliance with identified standards.
* Ensure robust data analysis drives improvement projects and support colleagues with understanding their data.
* To analyse data from various sources, interpret and evaluate this to propose a range of options, conveying complex information in a simple and understandable manner.
* Support colleagues to understand any potential health inequities because of their projects and support colleagues to drive QI to improve identified health inequities in line with the Trust's Better Health strategic aim.
* To support value stream mapping sessions to identify quality and cost factors that inform strategic cost improvement programme initiatives.
* Identification of potential research opportunities using a robust project scoping process.
* To lead the planning and implementing of new ways of working from learning acquired using QI tools and methodologies.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to a degree level or equivalent level of experience of working in a health and care setting acquired through training and experience to Masters' level equivalent.
* Evidence of further education in improvement eg Gold coaching, QSIR, lean/sigma or ability to demonstrate working towards this.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Coaching Qualification.
Experience
* Must understand the background to and aims of current health and social care policy and appreciate the implications of this on improvement.
* Experience of supporting change initiatives.
* Experience of supporting teams/groups through change.
* Experience of delivering training to cross functional groups.
* Experience of analysing complex data and applying it to support improvement initiatives.
* Experience of working alongside and supporting Experts by Experience in improvement work.
* Experience of leading significant projects that have led to quantifiable improvements.
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.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum pro rata
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