Director of Improvement | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Chwefror 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £109,179 - £125,637 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 13 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Wolverhampton, WV10 0QP |
| Cwmni: | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7800510/407-CORP-7800510 |
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Are you an ambitious and effective senior leader who can inspire and motivate teams to deliver results?
Do you have experience implementing a QMS within a provider Trust?
The Royal Wolverhampton and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trusts operate as a Group, working together to strengthen services, improve outcomes, and deliver consistent, high‑quality care for our communities.
We are seeking a Director of Improvement to make a genuine difference and drive meaningful change. You will have significant demonstrable experience and a proven track record of successful implementation of a QMS, preferable with a provider Trust. You will lead the development and delivery of organisation‑wide continuous improvement culture and fundamental change.
As a key member of the senior leadership team, the postholder will work in close partnership with Executive, senior leadership colleagues across the HR function and operational leaders to weave improvement capability into the fabric of the organisation's culture, values and daily practices.
The postholder will ensure the Group’s comprehensive improvement system aligns strategic priorities with daily operational practices, ensuring measurable improvements in patient care, staff experience, and organisational performance.
• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute strategies that ensure leadership models and development reflect a continuous improvement approach enabling staff-led problem solving and innovation.
• Collaborating to embed improvement: Partner with Organisational Development and Workforce teams to integrate improvement capability into leadership development, talent management, and succession planning.
• Improvement System Development: Work with operational leadership to establish and evolve the Trust’s Management system, connecting corporate strategy to frontline delivery through robust governance and balanced metrics
• Cultural transformation: Working with leadership teams to ensure the promotion and role modelling of improvement behaviours and implementation of processes and artefacts that consistently signal the desired culture.
• Staff engagement: Design and implement engagement strategies that set expectations about staff responsibilities to improve, inspire staff participation, address resistance constructively, and build networks of improvement champions. Ensure learning from improvement is widely celebrated and communicated.
• System Leadership: Represent the Trust in regional and national improvement networks, fostering partnerships that advance shared improvement goals across the healthcare system.
• Operational Leadership: Lead and develop a high-performing Improvement Team ensuring organisational improvement capability building through education, coaching, and facilitation.
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities.
A new Urgent Emergency Care Centre was opened in March 2023. The two-storey development has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity and has provided almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full list of duties and responsibilities.
Improvement System Development: Work with operational leadership to establish and evolve the Trust’s Management system, connecting corporate strategy to frontline delivery through robust governance and balanced metrics.
• Lead the continuous evolution of the Trust's methodology (currently Quality Service Improvement and Redesign – QSIR) ensuring it becomes embedded as the organisation's operating model for strategy deployment and continuous improvement.
• Create and maintain the infrastructure that connects strategic priorities to operational delivery through a balanced metrics approach encompassing quality, delivery, staff experience and cost
• Champion the improvement system across the organisation and externally, representing the Trust in system-wide improvement networks at local, regional and national levels
• Promote and facilitate an improvement approach that puts patients, carers and our staff at the heart of service design through co-production, making certain that what matters to them drives how services are delivered
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Feb 2026