Detailed job description
and main responsibilities
Partnering with clinical teams to design effective, sustainable solutions to complex service challenges.
Driving project delivery, ensuring strong clinical engagement and ownership.
Working with internal and external stakeholders — including patient and carer representatives — to ensure improvements deliver real, measurable benefits.
Acting as a role model for innovation, quality improvement and transformation methodologies.
Representing the Trust locally and nationally as required
Ensuring all improvement activity aligns with Trust priorities around safety, quality, patient experience, efficiency and productivity
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Evidence of significant personal development through formal courses and/or experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Training in large scale change/quality improvement/effective resource management
Desirable criteria
- Prince 2 / MSP (Managing Successful Programmes) or equivalent
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working across boundaries, engaging and managing a broad range stakeholders
- Experience of leading teams engaged in clinical pathway redesigns and delegating, plans and responsibilities to ensure delivery
- Extensive NHS Clinical Operational experience as either a Directorate or Clinical Manager
- NHS acute provider experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience in managing projects involving large scale transformation and/or service redesign
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly numerate and able to communicate and present articulately both verbally and in writing
- Ability to assimilate, interpret and analyse highly complex information and data to ensure effective reporting and progress of projects
- Ability to simplify highly complex issues and communicate challenging concepts to a variety of audiences in a memorable and engaging way
Desirable criteria
- Proven ability in service development and redesign in providing high quality care and treatment to patients
- Ability to produce models of activity that incorporate differing scenarios
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and comprehensive understanding of the clinical pathways across / within Acute setting
- Knowledge of, and ability to use, relevant project management tools and techniques
- Knowledge of the principles of organisational change and continuous improvement
- Knowledge of relevant governance structures, Trust policies, procedures guidelines and protocols
- Knowledge of the principles of skills transfer at all levels in an organisation
Desirable criteria
- In depth knowledge of all current health service issues