Improvement Advisor
The Bedfordshire Luton and Milton Keynes (ICB) is responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of the Integrated Care System (ICS), namely: to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money; and help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
Within this context, as the ICB develops as a statutory organisation, a significant challenge will be to determine how it effectively supports and enables place-based and local partnerships to take necessary action that will improve population health outcomes and reduce inequalities.
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Job overview
Are you a passionate and qualified Improvement Advisor with a recognised qualification in improvement? We are seeking Improvement advisors who are able to navigate through rapid change and ambiguity across an Integrated Care System (ICS), and who can confidently support and teach quality improvement methods.Join our evolving quality improvement team at the start of our exciting journey and help us grow and succeed together to enhance health equity for our populations across BLMK.
Main duties of the job
Come and join the new and developing Health Equity quality improvement team at Beds, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) Integrated Care Board (ICB). BLMK ICB has the privilege of working in collaboration with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement to build our capacity and capabilities in Quality Improvement with the aim of enhancing health equity for our residents in BLMK.
- The Improvement Advisor (IA) will be part of a central team within the Nursing Directorate that acts as the ICB’s internal resource for improvement science and will possess a deep understanding of improvement methodology. The post holder will have the opportunity to work and learn from our partners the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in the first year in post.
- The IAs will be responsible for building capacity and capabilities across the ICS by developing and delivering QI training packages through the lens of health equity. They will be required to support and coordinate numerous QI projects at different levels across the ICS.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to promoting equal opportunities to achieve equity of access, experience and outcomes and to recognising and valuing people’s differences. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity; we see this as a strength and part of our founding mission, values and behaviours.We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers patient outcomes.
We are committed to creating the best place to work, where your contribution is valued, your wellbeing is supported and all our colleagues can reach their full potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of their protected characteristic.We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone, including making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition and support with the recruitment process for people with lived experience.
We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles.
We operate a Carer friendly working environment that is supportive and inclusive. We actively encourage Carers to self-identify themselves.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and commit to shortlisting suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria for an interview. Please inform us of any adjustments you may require.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will have the skills to plan and evaluate methods and processes for interpreting and presenting data and be able to coordinate and support the delivery of QI projects.
The post holder will provide improvement training, coaching and guidance, for design and delivery of the learning system around each area of transformation and associated pathways in health and care across BLMK.
They will be expected to work with key stakeholders and communities to help identify barriers to access, outcomes and experience and testing these robustly in a way that enables the system to measure improvement. This approach will also enable involvement of people with lived experience.
The post holder will also support the development of improvement capability across the system, in support of the health equity programme. This will involve delivering improvement science teaching to different groups, both within and outside the healthcare system.
The role will be based in and across BLMK with requirement to travel across the geography of Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes on a regular basis.
Person specification
Quality Improvement qualification
Essential criteria- Quality improvement coaching qualification
- Improvement Advisor qualification
Please Note:
- This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of suitable applications are received. We recommend submitting your application early to avoid disappointment.
- Successfully shortlisted applicants will be contacted by email with an invitation to interview.
- Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes ICB does not pay interview expenses, all costs are incurred by the candidate.
- Arden & GEM CSU administer this account on behalf of the ICB, you may receive communications from both the CSU and the ICB during your recruitment.
Notes on completion of applications:
- All reference requests will be made to your employer/previous employers' HR Department, covering the previous 3 years of activity.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
- All eligible staff will need to have gained clearance through a standard/enhanced DBS check prior to working.
- All posts are subject to a probationary period.