Senior Healthcare Quality Improvement Lead – National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme

Are you a leader in healthcare; expert in quality improvement (QI)? Do you have experience and expertise in national clinical audits and a passion to enhance their impact on healthcare quality and outcomes? Are you seeking an opportunity to apply your skills at national level to the wider benefit of the NHS? Then we would love to hear from you.

The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) is an independent, non profit-making organisation led by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, The Royal College of Nursing and National Voices that commissions NHS clinical work programmes on behalf of NHS England and other devolved nations. This includes the National Clinical Audit & Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) which consists of over forty National Clinical Audits and clinical outcome review programmes. HQIP is a small, dynamic organisation, and our impact is achieved through the excellence of our workforce and the strength of our facilitatory and collaborative approach, both within our organisation and through our extensive professional networks.

HQIP and the Health Foundation have come together to create this exciting new role of Senior Healthcare QI Lead, running for a one year period in the first instance. The role is supported by the Health Foundation, an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK.

The overarching aim of the role is to increase the effectiveness of the NCAPOP in stimulating improvements in quality of care and patient outcomes. This aim is to be achieved through the delivery of two main objectives:

1. Reviewing, refining and improving HQIP’s approach to developing the scope and specification of each project with the aim of maximising the future healthcare QI utility.
2. Increasing the support to NCAPOP project provider teams on designing for QI impact, tailoring the approach to reflect the scope and maturity of each audit and sharing skills and knowledge across the Programme.

Senior Healthcare Quality Improvement Lead – National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme

Key requirements of this position are:

• Experience in designing and leading healthcare quality improvement within clinical settings at both local and system / organisational level
• In-depth understanding of national clinical audit methodology and delivery
• Demonstrable leadership skills with the ability to engage effectively with a variety of topic experts
• Well developed planning, organisational, analytic and written and verbal communication skills
• Flexibility and the capacity to assimilate information and learn effectively
• HQIP’s preferred start date for this post is March 2019; earlier if possible.

How to apply                                           

To apply, please download a copy of the job description and application form and return the completed application together with equal opportunities monitoring form to [email protected]

Closing date for applications: 12.00, Friday 26^th October, 2018

Interviews are planned for: 09.30 – 13.00, Wednesday 7^th November, 2018

Feedback will be provided to shortlisted applicants.

Further information

For further information about the post, please contact Yvonne Silove, Associate Director:  [email protected]