Job summary
The East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) strategy is to improve the lives of all we serve through improving population health outcomes, staff and service user experience and offering the best value for the community.
The primary purpose of the Quality Improvement (QI) department is to nurture an improvement culture that involves everyone to achieve this mission. The team's work includes engaging, encouraging and inspiring people inside and outside the organisation around improvement, helping people build and also use improvement skills, ensuring there is support for those undertaking improvement efforts and overseeing continuous improvement through a mixture of QI projects as well as the use of QI tools.
The QI Programme Support Officer will have a pivotal role within the QI department. The post holder will be involved in supporting the effective planning, co-ordination and delivery of the department's strategic objectives, activities and projects. This will involve clerical or administrative support, developing and implementing processes, and providing support to deliver learning and engagement events, and provide essential programme support across the QI Department.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities of the role will be to:
- To provide project support to a variety of short, medium and long term projects using project management principles
- To provide event management and logistical support to the annual programme of QI learning and engagement events.
- To provide programme and operational support for the ELFT QI Department
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description for additional information on the main responsibilities of the job, as more information is provided on each of the key responsibilities listed above.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description for additional information on the main responsibilities of the job, as more information is provided on each of the key responsibilities listed above.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification or level of experience
- Project management related qualification (Agile, Prince2 or other related methodology)
Desirable
- Business management qualification
- Model for Improvement or other continuous improvement related qualification
Previous Experience
Essential
- Three years' experience in a professional environment
- Prior project management experience
- Experience of working in a fast paced, adaptable environment
- Previous experience of bringing innovation and new ideas to practice
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Experience of complex diary management/ management and facilitation of large-scale complex meetings and events
- Demonstrating experience of dealing with a wide range of stakeholders and providing information and advice
- Previous demonstrable experience of data collection, presentation and report writing
Desirable
- Experience of leading change
- Previous experience in similar role in a healthcare or public sector environment.
- Previous experience of working with senior staff
- Some experience of using data and measurement
- Website development and management
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Project management
- Knowledge of the healthcare systems and the NHS
- Knowledge and confidence in using a range of communications technologies such as WebEx, Zoom and MS Teams
- Excellent information management skills
- Ability to working to regular, complex and tight deadlines
- Excellent verbal and written presentation skills
- Experience of content production for websites and social media
- Problem recognition and problem solving skills, including conflict resolution
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills including PowerPoint, Excel, Visio and Flow
- Ability to provide guidance to colleagues on project management methodologies
- Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with staff from a variety of backgrounds
- Ability to work autonomously and prioritise own workload
- Ability to work collaboratively and in teams.
- Ability to understand, evaluate and present complex data
- Ability to challenge orthodoxies and established work patterns in a positive engaging way
Desirable
- Management of change
- Principles of continuous improvement
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification or level of experience
- Project management related qualification (Agile, Prince2 or other related methodology)
Desirable
- Business management qualification
- Model for Improvement or other continuous improvement related qualification
Previous Experience
Essential
- Three years' experience in a professional environment
- Prior project management experience
- Experience of working in a fast paced, adaptable environment
- Previous experience of bringing innovation and new ideas to practice
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Experience of complex diary management/ management and facilitation of large-scale complex meetings and events
- Demonstrating experience of dealing with a wide range of stakeholders and providing information and advice
- Previous demonstrable experience of data collection, presentation and report writing
Desirable
- Experience of leading change
- Previous experience in similar role in a healthcare or public sector environment.
- Previous experience of working with senior staff
- Some experience of using data and measurement
- Website development and management
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Project management
- Knowledge of the healthcare systems and the NHS
- Knowledge and confidence in using a range of communications technologies such as WebEx, Zoom and MS Teams
- Excellent information management skills
- Ability to working to regular, complex and tight deadlines
- Excellent verbal and written presentation skills
- Experience of content production for websites and social media
- Problem recognition and problem solving skills, including conflict resolution
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills including PowerPoint, Excel, Visio and Flow
- Ability to provide guidance to colleagues on project management methodologies
- Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with staff from a variety of backgrounds
- Ability to work autonomously and prioritise own workload
- Ability to work collaboratively and in teams.
- Ability to understand, evaluate and present complex data
- Ability to challenge orthodoxies and established work patterns in a positive engaging way
Desirable
- Management of change
- Principles of continuous improvement
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).
