Director of Transformation & Continuous Quality Improvement

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

This is a great opportunity for a dynamic and ambitious leader to join one of the country's top performing NHS Trusts and have a lasting impact on its exciting future.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will be responsible for transformation and implementation of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) quality improvement strategy, ensuring performance and strategic targets are met contributing significantly to the delivery of the continuous improvement programme.

Driving the Trust strategy, you will be responsible for supporting the strategic ambitions by collaborating with clinical and operational leaders at all levels to drive sustainable continuous quality improvement processes throughout the organisation.

Operating at Executive and Board level, you will provide subject matter expertise that will also engage all FHFT colleagues.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with senior colleagues and stakeholders across the system and networks, you will be responsible for leading our major transformation and continuous quality improvement programmes, fostering an environment of innovation and best practice.

Delivering culture change in line with our 'One Frimley Health' ambitions, which embeds change management and continuous quality improvement as a recognised strength and capability within the Trust.

About us

There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.

Date posted

11 September 2023

Pay scheme

Very senior manager (VSM)

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

151-ALG35

Job locations

Wexham Park, Frimley Park, Heatherwood Hospital and Communities

Frimley

GU16 7UJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the candidate pack for the full job description and person specification and to learn more about Frimley Health NHS FT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the candidate pack for the full job description and person specification and to learn more about Frimley Health NHS FT

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters Degree or equivalent job related experience/graduate calibre.
In-depth knowledge in a number of disciplines eg financial management, performance management, information systems, staff management acquired through training and experience over an extended period
In depth knowledge of service and quality improvement methodologies and broad experience of successful implementation of improvement projects in a healthcare organisation.

Desirable

Degree level project and project management qualification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner
Evidence of on-going accredited quality improvement training.
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters Degree or equivalent job related experience/graduate calibre.
In-depth knowledge in a number of disciplines eg financial management, performance management, information systems, staff management acquired through training and experience over an extended period
In depth knowledge of service and quality improvement methodologies and broad experience of successful implementation of improvement projects in a healthcare organisation.

Desirable

Degree level project and project management qualification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner
Evidence of on-going accredited quality improvement training.
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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