Quality Improvement Lead
The closing date is 01 June 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 a Band 7 Quality Improvement Lead.
This role is offered on a fixed‑term/secondment basis for 30 hours per week. Internal applicants wishing to be considered for a secondment should discuss the suitability of a possible secondment with their line manager.
Responsibilities
* Lead the development, planning, delivery and review of the Trust’s Improvement Training Programme.
* Provide expert guidance, coaching and support to staff leading quality improvement projects across the organisation.
* Deliver training in Quality Improvement tools, including face‑to‑face and online workshops, programmes and events to share good practice and experiences of improving services.
* Evaluate training performance and take proactive action to improve delivery, learning outcomes and impact.
* Ensure effective use of training resources, minimising costs and avoiding unnecessary waste.
* Lead and support improvement projects, ensuring adherence to the Trust’s improvement methodology and robust application of improvement principles.
* Provide guidance and coaching to project leads and team members, including Experts by Lived Experience.
* Maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders and influence change at all levels.
* Ensure that Quality Improvement work identifies clear measurable outcomes and can demonstrate how benefits have been realised.
* Support colleagues to understand any potential health inequities arising from their projects and drive QI to improve identified health inequities in line with the Trust’s Better Health strategic aim.
* Work with QI Managers to link improvement work with the Trust‑wide annual clinical audit process and provide support to audit leads.
* Ensure robust data analysis drives improvement projects and support colleagues in understanding their data.
* Support value‑stream mapping sessions and identify quality and cost factors that inform strategic cost improvement programme initiatives.
* Identify potential research opportunities using a robust project scoping process.
* Lead the planning and implementation of new ways of working derived from learning acquired using QI tools and methodologies.
Qualifications
* Educated to a degree level or equivalent level of experience in a health and care setting, or equivalent to Master’s level.
* Evidence of further education in improvement (e.g. Gold coaching, QSIR, Lean/Sigma) or demonstrable progression towards this.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Coaching qualification.
Experience
* Understanding of the background to and aims of current health and social care policy and its implications on improvement.
* Experience supporting change initiatives and teams/groups through change.
* Experience delivering training to cross‑functional groups.
* Experience analysing complex data and applying it to support improvement initiatives.
* Experience working alongside and supporting Experts by Experience in improvement work.
* Experience leading significant projects that have resulted in quantifiable improvements.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and therefore requires a submission for disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
£49,387 to £56,515 a year pro rata
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