National Perioperative Improvement Lead

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI); Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) seeks a Senior Improvement Advisor to join the Transforming Theatre Group, delivering quality improvement and change initiatives across national hospital sites. You will mentor stakeholders, design programme delivery, and lead workshops to realise perioperative improvements.

The role requires substantial healthcare leadership experience, strong project management, and a track record of implementing measurable improvements across hospital regions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years satisfactory experience in a healthcare setting.
• Experience in change management and leadership.
• Experience leading, managing and/or influencing diverse teams.
• Experience mentoring staff through change.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and advise all stakeholders on programme design and requirements for implementation (on site across different Health Regions/hospitals and virtually).
• Play a key role in ongoing programme design refinement and delivery to ensure customer requirements are met in a timely manner.
• Provide training, mentorship, coaching and facilitation in the rollout of a custom-built operating theatre measurement model (TMM) to all participating hospitals and Health Regions.
• Support local teams in the interpretation and understanding of the suite of metrics generated from the TMM and provide troubleshooting support as required.
• Map existing processes and resources within perioperative pathways providing pivotal insights into existing capacity and flow for efficiency and effectiveness analysis.
• Work with local teams on the ground within the perioperative pathway to identify and record tangible opportunities for improvement within hospitals and between hospitals in a Health Region.
• Ability to identify and share quick (short term) wins/impact and medium to long term gains/impact while building a proposal for a future improved state using modelling techniques and a quality improvement mindset.
• Organise and facilitate workshops on various aspects and stages of implementation of the RCSI scope of work.
• Apply project management principles to the work at all stages and adhere to specific timelines.
• Work with local stakeholders in identifying potential constraints and generating solutions/problem solving in a timely manner.
• Deliver high level QI training to stakeholders of all levels within hospitals and Health Regions.
• Report writing involving both the RSCI core team and the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) locally at each site and Health Region.
• Give regular updates on progress of work at defined timely intervals to internal core team members and externally to HSE Working Groups and Steering Groups.

Skills

Project management

Change management

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Report writing

Training and development

Analytical skills

Education

Quality improvement / Lean / Six Sigma qualification

Tools

PM tools

Job description

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) seeks a Senior Improvement Advisor to join the Transforming Theatre Group, delivering quality improvement and change initiatives across national hospital sites. You will mentor stakeholders, design programme delivery, and lead workshops to realise perioperative improvements.

The role requires substantial healthcare leadership experience, strong project management, and a track record of implementing measurable improvements across hospital regions.