Quality Improvement Lead
| Posting date: | 12 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 February 2026 |
| Location: | Gloucestershire, GL34AW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9327-26-0118 |
Summary
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification Delivering improvement training Responsible for developing, planning and delivering Quality Improvement training for teams, in line with the Trusts approved improvement methodology. Providing high quality training in Quality Improvement tools as part of the Quality Improvement training programme. Designing, delivering, and facilitating face to face and onlineworkshops/programmes/events to share good practice and experiences of improving services. Raise the profile and support the development of the QI intranet and internet pages. Provide staff with useful links to resources to assist with improvement, initiate and contribute to active discussions and contribute resources to help maintain an up-todate repository of best practice. Evaluating training performance and taking proactive action to improve delivery, learning outcomes and impact. Ensure effective use of training resources, minimising costs, and avoiding unnecessary waste. Supporting improvement projects To lead on assigned improvement projects as required, ensuring adherence to the GHC improvement methodology and robust application of improvement principles. Provide guidance, coaching and support to improvement projects, ensuring effective application of improvement tools which result in quantifiable and sustainable improvements to quality, performance, and efficiency. Provide guidance, support and coaching to project leads in their improvement activities. Provide guidance support and coaching to project team members including Experts by Lived Experience To ensure that strong relationships are established across all directorates so that evidence-based practice is applied when facilitating improvement and any redesign, so that high quality standards of clinical care are delivered. To ensure Quality Improvement work identifies clear measurable outcomes and can show how benefits have been realised. Maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders, maintaining commitment and influencing change at all levels. Work with the QI Managers to enable staff to link improvement work with the Trustwide annual clinical audit process, providing support with quality improvement methods to audit leads, driving compliance with identified standards. Ensure robust data analysis drives improvement projects and support colleagues with understanding their data. To analyse data from various sources, interpret and evaluate this to propose a range of options, conveying complex information in a simple and understandable manner. Support colleagues to understand any potential health inequities because of their projects and support colleagues to drive QI to improve identified health inequities in line with the Trusts Better Health strategic aim. To support value stream mapping sessions to identify quality and cost factors that inform strategic cost improvement programme initiatives. Identification of potential research opportunities using a robust project scoping process To lead the planning and implementing of new ways of working from learning acquired using QI tools and methodologies.