The successful candidate will collaborate with various operational teams, helping them identify improvement opportunities, reduce variations, and implement successful changes. Responsibilities also include delivering workshops and training, managing external relationships, planning resources, and producing progress reports. The position emphasises developing skills in others, building relationships, and integrating CQI into everyday practices and strategic goals. The role reflects NICE's commitment to excellence and innovation in health and care.
This role is open to either Manchester or London applicants.
This secondment or fixed-term opportunity is ideal for a seasoned quality improvement expert. If you have experience supporting projects and programmes using the Model for Improvement and want to expand your skills in a different setting, this is a rare opportunity to support a national organisation with an international reputation for excellence.
The Improvement Advisor will support all parts of NICE to improve what they do and their impact through continuous quality improvement (CQI) methods. This role primarily supports the 'Improving Timeliness of Guidance Production' programme by teaching improvement based on the Model for Improvement, coaching teams, and facilitating collaborative learning sessions.
The programme brings together projects across medicines, health technology, and guidelines to accelerate testing, learning, and impact. This is the first time NICE is using a consistent approach to improvement to design, test, and scale-up impactful changes across the organisation.The successful candidate will join a motivated CQI team and contribute to developing and embedding support structures for improvement to:
o surface and magnify the motivation and agency of everyone to lead change in line with NICE's values and behaviourso develop people's skills through CQI training o provide wraparound support to people involved in improvemento align and integrate CQI with daily work and strategic prioritieso help people tell stories of their improvement journey
Supporting all parts of NICE to enhance their impact using the Model for Improvement, primarily focusing on the 'Improving Timeliness of Guidance Production' programme, you will:
o Foster a culture of continuous improvement across the organisation.o Act as a key interface between operational teams and the Continuous Quality Improvement Team.o Support all levels of staff to identify opportunities to reduce variation and make improvement.o Build relationships and coach teams in improvement.o Help teams apply quality improvement methodology to understand their systems, develop strategies, test ideas, and embed successful changes.o Provide expert support, deliver workshops and training sessions.o Manage external relationships and oversee contractso Plan resource requirements, produce progress reports and conduct benefits analysis.
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To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrate all essential criteria through the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Please note - interviews for this role will be conducted in person in our London office on Monday 2nd December 2024.
Candidates invited to an interview will be asked to complete and submit a task to demonstrate the skills required for the role. The task and brief will be given once the interview is confirmed.
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