Continuous Quality Improvement Lead

Job summary

This position is an exciting opportunity for an individual with a talent for improvement to take WHH (Warrington and Halton Hospitals) to a new level of achievement. The post holder will have a key role in delivery of the organisations' quality and improvement priorities as described in our Quality Strategy. It is an ideal opportunity for the right candidate to gain experience within WHH's Quality Academy and will deliver a key role in supporting quality improvement work across the organisation. This post will be offered on a fixed term temporary contract or secondment opportunity for 12 months to cover a maternity leave.

Main duties of the job

WHH's Quality Academy works to improve quality for people in hospital through a programme of quality improvements, research, innovations, data, training and collaboration. The Academy is based at the Warrington Hospital and includes a small core team of improvement staff, alongside Clinical Audit, Effectiveness, Research & Development, and Knowledge & Library Services.

The Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Lead will work with partners across the Quality Academy and wider Trust to design, deliver and evaluate quality improvement programmes, incorporating an agreed improvement plan and the associated measurement and monitoring strategy to track progress and demonstrate continuous improvements in healthcare service delivery.

The post holder will work closely with the wider QI team providing leadership and QI expertise to ensure delivery of a portfolio of work focused on driving continuous improvement at service levels. They will need to build strong relationships with Trust stakeholders and partner organisations including clinical and nonclinical services.

They will also support the vision to grow a culture of continuous improvement, learning and innovation at the Trust through the delivery of training on Quality Improvement methods/tools, providing improvement expertise to the Clinical Business Units, and engage with other teams across all areas of the Quality Academy.

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.