Quality Improvement Advisor | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for a Quality Improvement Advisor to join their team in London. This role involves coaching clinical teams on quality improvement methods and managing improvement programs. Candidates should have strong communication skills and experience in data analysis. Travel to different sites is required for this in-person position. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Extensive benefits package

Healthy work-life balance

Qualifications

• Experience in coaching clinical teams through quality improvement processes.
• Ability to analyze data for effective decision-making.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality improvement coaching to clinical teams.
• Deliver Trust-wide quality improvement development programs.
• Lead analysis and data management tasks.

Skills

Quality improvement coaching

Change management

Communication

Data management

Job description

About the team

The Improvement Service is part of the Quality Centre within The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The service plays a key role in enabling the Trust to use adopted improvement methodology within the context of Our Care Improvement System, (the Trust’s quality management system) and to deliver the Trusts strategic ambitions set out in Changing Lives Aiming High strategy. The work of the service underpinned by improvement and organisational science, theories and principles and evidence-based practice, to enable services, teams and individuals to work at their best to deliver safe and effective care and outcomes that matter to patients, families and carers.

About the role

The primary purpose of the Quality Improvement (QI) Programme is to take a lead role in the transformation of the culture of the Trust to one of continuous improvement which is delivered through the Trusts 5 strategic objectives and quality management system, namely Our Care Improvement System (Care IS). Our approach enables active participation of staff service users/ carers in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of system wide improvements using the established methodologies (quality improvement methods, pilot and evaluation methods, organisational psychology and behaviour change).

The QI advisor role will work as a member of the QI team and provide QI coaching to clinical teams and co deliver the Trust wide QI development programmes. Integral to the coaching is the ability to coach people on using data for improvement to reduce unwarranted variation in practice.

Candidates who are successful at the shortlisting stage will be invited to interview onThursday 28/10/2025- you will need to be available for the whole day.

About the location

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth. The team base is at the Maudsley and this is an in person role. Travel will be required across sites.

Benefits

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

For a full list of our benefits please visit: https://www.slam.nhs.uk/media/421262/Working%20at%20SLaM.pdf

Role responsibilities

• Quality improvement coaching
• QI training
• Change Management Working
• Communication and relationships
• Programme manage improvement work
• Professionalism
• Analysis and Data Management
• Governance

Please refer to the job description for further information

This advert closes on Wednesday 8 Oct 2025