Job summary
*INTERNAL MPFT APPLICANTS ONLY*
A career development opportunity is available to work in the Quality Improvement Team at MPFT. This is a great chance to make a significant impact on patient care, as well as supporting individual professional growth.
Are you eager to make a difference and improve the services we provide through Quality Improvement?
If you are, consider joining our team to help deliver exceptional value to our patients.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
This role will have specific objectives for the six months related to key trust wide and care priority objectives, responding to risk, patient/ stakeholder feedback and key performance metrics. Through these focussed areas of work, responsibilities will include;
Leading on improvement projects to support trust-wide or care group priority objectives
Collaborate with the risk management team to help mitigate risks using QI methodology
Support clinicians to free up time to re-invest into patient care
Coach, mentor, and teach clinicians
Provide coaching to clinical staff members in the effective evaluation and enhancement of processes by traveling to various locations.
Requirements:
Previous Quality Improvement Experience
Evidence of Quality Improvement training
Completion of in-house Leading Quality Improvement training (or willingness to complete it)
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Commitment to NHS England's Net Zero targets
If this sounds like something you want to get involved in - please get in touch to have an informal conversation and find out more.
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Deliver specialist training in Quality Improvement skills, tools and techniques to staff at all levels across the organisation, including developing and delivering SusQI
Facilitate events/ deliver training both face to face and online using MS Teams/ Zoom and other software packages as required
Lead the delivery of the First Steps in QI training programme and the Leading QI training programme and other teachings on an ad hoc basis with teams as required (including evaluation of the programmes and providing mentoring to staff as required during their project activities) including developing and delivering SusQI materials and projects
Support the delivery of the Master in QI training teaching as required
- Provide VMPS-specific and QI project management advice to clinicians, managers and staff at all levels
Project manage/ workshop lead/ facilitate patient centred Quality Improvement Events (QIEs) including the design and planning of events in collaboration with the Care Groups ensuring clear aims and measures for improvement are identified.
Provide advice/ guidance to new/ inexperienced QI facilitators to facilitate events
Deliver improvements through facilitation, engagement of stakeholders, analysis, planning and project management
Support staff to undertake a range of QI initiatives, and help teams to agree on practical proposals for change using the Trusts QI principles and methodology
In co-ordinating QI projects and work streams, liaise and engage with staff and support their development in the use of QI methodologies, ensuring QI and best practice tools and techniques are applied in a consistent manner
Manage the governance processes to support the sustainability of Quality Improvement Events (QIE) which have taken place
Promote a culture of putting the people who use our services at the centre of everything we do
Deliver the improvement projects congruent with the CI strategy and Trust objectives, ensuring the production of clear project management and benefit delivery plans
Contribute to the development of a culture of quality improvement to deliver improved quality and delivery of patient care and related services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Deliver specialist training in Quality Improvement skills, tools and techniques to staff at all levels across the organisation, including developing and delivering SusQI
Facilitate events/ deliver training both face to face and online using MS Teams/ Zoom and other software packages as required
Lead the delivery of the First Steps in QI training programme and the Leading QI training programme and other teachings on an ad hoc basis with teams as required (including evaluation of the programmes and providing mentoring to staff as required during their project activities) including developing and delivering SusQI materials and projects
Support the delivery of the Master in QI training teaching as required
- Provide VMPS-specific and QI project management advice to clinicians, managers and staff at all levels
Project manage/ workshop lead/ facilitate patient centred Quality Improvement Events (QIEs) including the design and planning of events in collaboration with the Care Groups ensuring clear aims and measures for improvement are identified.
Provide advice/ guidance to new/ inexperienced QI facilitators to facilitate events
Deliver improvements through facilitation, engagement of stakeholders, analysis, planning and project management
Support staff to undertake a range of QI initiatives, and help teams to agree on practical proposals for change using the Trusts QI principles and methodology
In co-ordinating QI projects and work streams, liaise and engage with staff and support their development in the use of QI methodologies, ensuring QI and best practice tools and techniques are applied in a consistent manner
Manage the governance processes to support the sustainability of Quality Improvement Events (QIE) which have taken place
Promote a culture of putting the people who use our services at the centre of everything we do
Deliver the improvement projects congruent with the CI strategy and Trust objectives, ensuring the production of clear project management and benefit delivery plans
Contribute to the development of a culture of quality improvement to deliver improved quality and delivery of patient care and related services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Training in Quality Improvement Techniques in Healthcare
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with clinical and non-clinical staff to deliver significant improvements in service quality.
- Experience of applying QI/ Lean, or other QI systems, across numerous pathways
- Experience in service improvement and change management tools, techniques and process design concepts
- Experience of training and/ or facilitating group discussions
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Training in Quality Improvement Techniques in Healthcare
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with clinical and non-clinical staff to deliver significant improvements in service quality.
- Experience of applying QI/ Lean, or other QI systems, across numerous pathways
- Experience in service improvement and change management tools, techniques and process design concepts
- Experience of training and/ or facilitating group discussions
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
