Main area Improvement Grade Band 7 Contract 8 months (Fixed term or secondment for 8 months duration) Hours Part time - 30 hours per week Job ref 327-26-280-A
Site Edward Jenner Court Town Gloucestershire Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 01/06/2026 23:59
Job overview
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.
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
Main duties of the job
This role is offered on a fixed term/secondment basis for 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.
* Develop, plan and deliver Quality Improvement training for teams in line with the Trust’s approved improvement methodology
* Provide high‑quality training in Quality Improvement tools as part of the programme
* Design, deliver and facilitate face‑to‑face and online workshops, programmes and events to share good practice and experiences of improving services
* Raise the profile and support the development of the QI intranet and internet pages, providing staff with useful links to resources and maintaining an up‑to‑date repository of best practice
* 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 on assigned improvement projects, 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 tools that result in quantifiable and sustainable improvements to quality, performance and efficiency
* Guide, support and coach project leads and team members, including Experts by Lived Experience
* Ensure that relationships are established across all directorates so that evidence‑based practice is applied when facilitating improvement and redesign, maintaining high‑quality standards of clinical care
* Ensure that 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 Trustwide annual clinical audit process, supporting audit leads and driving compliance with identified standards
* Ensure robust data analysis drives improvement projects and support colleagues in understanding their data
* Analyse data from various sources, interpret and evaluate it to propose options, conveying complex information in a simple and understandable manner
* Support colleagues to understand potential health inequities arising from projects and drive QI to improve identified inequities in line with the Trust’s Better Health strategic aim
* Support value stream mapping sessions to 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 based on learning acquired using QI tools and methodologies
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 e.g. 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
Benefits
* Free car parking at many of our sites
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
* A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification
* A multi‑professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
* Flexible, family‑friendly and agile working opportunities
* Recognition and long‑service awards
* Fast Track physiotherapy
* Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers
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