National Quality Improvement Lead

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Job description

National Quality Improvement Lead Home based with travel FT Permanent Salary DOE

We are one of the UK's leading independent hospital groups and the largest in terms of revenue. From our 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms across England, Wales, and Scotland, we provide diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care in areas including orthopaedics, gynaecology, cardiology, neurology, oncology, and general surgery. We also operate a network of private GPs and provide occupational health services to over 700 corporate clients. We are the principal independent provider by volume of knee and hip operations in the United Kingdom.

The group was founded with the acquisition and re-branding of 25 Bupa hospitals in 2007. Since then, Spire Healthcare has made significant capital investments in its estate and continues to deliver successful and award-winning clinical outcomes and high levels of patient satisfaction.

Spire is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 250. We were the first private hospital provider to publish outcomes data on our website and we have received awards for our clinical quality and high levels of patient satisfaction.

Spire Healthcare is committed to the highest quality of patient care. Working in partnership with over 8,760 experienced consultants, we delivered tailored, personalised care to approximately 926,500 inpatients, outpatients, and day case patients in 2022.Patients, consultants, and general practitioners trust Spire Healthcare to deliver the high-quality care they expect from a leading private healthcare provider.

We are now looking for a National Quality Improvement Lead. In this role you will focus on embedding a culture of continuous quality improvement across Spire Healthcare and will be committed to supporting the organisation in delivering key quality improvements through robust quality improvement strategies and methodologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading on the initiation, design, implementation and sustainability of quality improvement programmes across Spire Healthcare. These improvement projects will be aligned to achieving significant, sustained change to the safety, quality, effectiveness and efficiency of Spire Healthcare.
• Supporting Hospitals in the design, implementation and sustainability of quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensuring that individual project plans and risk, quality and issue logs are developed and maintained for each of the quality improvement project area, in a robust and proactive manner. Help resolve issues arising from these that cannot be resolved at local level.
• Establish regular and appropriate update reports are provided to the relevant meetings and committee(s) within Spire Healthcare.
• Ensuring that Quality Improvement projects have an appropriate and effective quality assurance system which demonstrates it is being led and managed to high standards and provides additional reassurance that its goals and outcomes are credible.
• Developing a clear understanding of all relevant statutory, regulatory and legal requirements that the hospitals operate within.
• Preparing and present when required, papers and reports for Group wide meetings and committees.
• Evaluating the information available on services and identify issues that the organisation needs to address.
• Establishing with others goals and methods for developing knowledge, ideas and work practices, and inspire others with values and vision for the future.
• Challenging those whose views and actions are not consistent with developing knowledge and practice and a learning culture within the team.

Key Requirements:

Essential

• Extensive experience within healthcare
• Qualifications in Quality Improvement to at least Practitioner Level
• Experience of teaching and coaching teams / individuals to support the best outcomes
• Evidence of advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, specifically including measurement of improvement.

Desirable

• Master's degree and/or demonstrable equivalent experience.
• Registered Healthcare Professional (NMC, HPC)
• Quality Improvement training to coach level or above.

Benefits:

We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
• 'Spire for you' reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
• Free wellness screening
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance

Spire Healthcare is committed to creating an environment that will attract, retain, and motivate its people. We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to the health and wellbeing of all our colleagues and consultants.

We firmly believe that it is our people that make the business successful, and everyone should have the opportunity to work in a motivated team, free from discrimination on any grounds. We, therefore, are keen to receive and review applications from all candidates of under-represented groups who feel they offer the requisite skills.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

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