Innovation and Improvement Advisor

NHS Scotland ,
Stirling, Stirling and Falkirk
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2 x Part-time 30 hours per week (2 x Quality & Safety) 1 x Full-time 37.5 hours per week (Unscheduled Care) *Secondment opportunity / fixed term for up to 18 months *Secondment Opportunity - Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager and complete the secondment request form prior to interview. The secondment request form and the associated secondment policy can be found on the HR/Recruitment intranet pages and must be completed and signed by the substantive line manager. The Candidate should then take it with them to interview as confirmation that an agreement has been granted. Exciting new opportunities have arisen for Innovation and Improvement Advisors to lead and support a range of high profile programmes and projects in Forth Valley. These posts will support NHS Forth Valley, working with Clackmannanshire and Stirling and Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnerships to deliver organisational priorities, with a particular focus on approaches that add value to the services that we provide. A key aspect of your role will be engaging with clinicians and other stakeholders to support improvement programmes and projects in acute, community and primary care. These include Unscheduled Care 6 Essential Actions, Primary Care Transformation and Elective Care. Your responsibilities will also include will include building improvement capability and capacity. NHS Forth Valley, working with our H&SCPs and West of Scotland Regional Planning, is also a Test Bed for health and care innovation. These areas of work require passionate and experienced individuals confident to lead and support improvement in a complex system. We are looking for well motivated people, educated to degree level or equivalent training in improvement science or have equivalent extensive practical experience of supporting innovation and improvement programmes. You will need to demonstrate excellent inter-personal and communication skills. You must have experience of training in and the effective application of the model for improvement to lead the implementation of quality improvement programmes. Coaching improvement with frontline, multidisciplinary teams is also essential to the role of an innovation and improvement advisor You must have experience of working in health and care and evidence of considerable experience in innovation, service improvement and change management in large complex organisations. You will be expected to work at locations across NHS Forth Valley. You will be required to evidence improvement expertise and programme management experience including the analysis of both qualitative & quantitative data. Reporting progress is also key and producing reports to a high standard is essential. We are looking for creative thinking and innovation skills, particularly in multi-agency and whole systems and ability to challenge the norm and test assumptions of others to develop new ideas and ways of working. For further information, or an informal discussion about this post please contact: * Paul Smith, Quality & Safety Lead, paul.smith87@nhs.net or 07779559103 * Lesley Middlemiss, Primary Care Transformation Programme Manager, Lesley.middlemiss@nhs.net or 07810056495 * Chris Bernthal, Unscheduled Care Programme Manager, chris.bernthal@nhs.net or 07941 852392 The duties of this post require the successful candidate to complete a Standard Police Act Disclosure Scotland Check. Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail, therefore please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders). NHS Forth Valley is positive about disabled people and is committed to offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Please contact the Recruitment Office on 0330 041 4694 if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to assist you with your application and/or interview.

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