Senior Quality Improvement Lead | Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 13 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 April 2026 |
| Location: | Wakefield, WF2 0XQ |
| Company: | Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7854025/174-SQIL-110326 |
Summary
To support our improvement ambitions, we are seeking a highly skilled and motivatedSenior Quality Improvement (QI) Leadto join our QI Team.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced improvement leader to play a pivotal role in shaping and embedding a culture of continuous improvement across YAS.
As the Senior QI Lead, you will provide visible leadership, specialist improvement expertise and operational management of the QI Team. Working closely with the Head of Quality Improvement, you will drive forward strategic improvement programmes, support organisational maturity in QI, and influence how care is designed and delivered to benefit patients, staff and the wider health system.
We are looking for someone who is:
1. Skilled -educated to master’s degree level or have experience in a similar role or setting as well as holding a recognised QI related qualification such as Quality Improvement Service Redesign (QSIR),
Lean six sigma.
2. Experienced -able to deliver improvement and has a record of delivering change/ improvement within a complex organisation through to scale and spread
3. Credible -a strong leader with extensive leadership experience with some leadership experience within the health and social care setting
4. Values driven - must be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of Trust values and be able to articulate in practice
In this role, you will:
• Be responsible for the delivery of improvement programmes through advising on improvement methods, managing improvement milestones, supporting teams to achieve improvements and ensuring the timely delivery of improvement.
• Support the delivery of QI enabling plans and strategies.
• Engage with and provide improvement leadership to people who may not be directly in the QI team to ensure improvement is daily practice amongst teams.
• Communicate complex, and at times, sensitive key messages relating to improvement across the Trust.
• Work with the Head of QI to develop and deliver QI team yearly workplans and objectives.
• Deliver improvement education programmes.
• Work with teams to undertake Quality Impact Assessments (QIA) and provide assurance of the QIA process to the Head of QI.
• Support the Trust to work within an effective quality management system.
• Support the Trust to ensure that quality is demonstrated and regularly audited against, internally, for assurance purposes. For example, working within Care Quality Commission (CQC) frameworks to achieve an ‘outstanding’ rating.
• Regularly provide assurance to the Head of QI and key stakeholders against organisational improvement maturity including progress against cultural measures relating to improvement.
• Deputise for the Head of QI as required.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.
We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.
We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.
Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.
Benefits:
• Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
• Contributory Pension.
• NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.
• Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes (salary dependent)
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.
• Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
• Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.
Please see attached Job description and person specification for a full overview of the main responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Mar 2026