Implementation and Improvement Facilitator

NHS Scotland; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Scotland is seeking an Implementation and Improvement Facilitator for its Mental Health Unit in Edinburgh. This full-time role focuses on project management and implementation of health improvement initiatives, requiring relevant experience in health services and a passion for quality care improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management within health and social care.
• Skills in service improvement methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Support the Mental Health Responsive Support programme.
• Facilitate delivery of national redesign and improvement programmes.

Skills

Project delivery

Health and social care improvement

Education

Degree level education

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Client:

NHS Scotland

Location:

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Other

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Posted:

29.06.2025

Expiry Date:

13.08.2025

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Job Description:

Implementation and Improvement Facilitator (Ref: 211874)

Full time (37 hours per week)

Fixed-term contract/secondment until 31 March 2026

Edinburgh/Glasgow - hybrid working will apply for the foreseeable future

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Improvement and Implementation Facilitator to join the Transformational Change Mental Health Unit which is part of the Community Engagement and Transformational Change Directorate of Healthcare Improvement Scotland. The unit currently has the following active programmes of work:

• Mental Health and Substance Use
• Scottish Patient Safety Programme Mental Health and Core Standards
• Mental Health Reform (Complex Mental Health)
• Mental Health Responsive Support (Delayed Discharges and “Coming Home”)

We are looking for experienced, enthusiastic and positive individuals to work within the Mental Health Responsive Support programme and provide support across the unit when required. The successful candidate will have experience, skills and knowledge of project delivery and management and also in health and social care improvement work. They will provide the improvement delivery and infrastructure support required to facilitate delivery of this national redesign, improvement and implementation programme. Individuals should be educated to degree level and or have experience in improving services in health and social care and project management.

If you have relevant skills and experience and are passionate about improving the quality of care for people using and working in health and social care services, we want to hear from you.

Further information about these roles is available from Gordon Hay or Sarah Wilson at [emailprotected]

Closing Date: midnight on Thursday 10 July 2025

In-person interviews will take place on Wednesday 23 July 2025