Would You Like To Become a Key Player In Improving Patient Safety Across NHS Wales?
Improvement Cymru is the national quality improvement service for NHS Wales. Our goal is to work with NHS Wales and its partner organisations to achieve sustainable, measurable improvements so that health and care services are safe, reliable and effective. Our work is described in our Improvement Cymru strategy published in 2021.
Role
Working across Wales, we deliver improvement support using a National and regional approach, tailored to local need. Our roles are based across Wales providing improvement expertise and support in the following regions:
- North Wales
- South East Wales
- Mid & West Wales
- Trusts & Networks (National)
This Post Offers An Opportunity To Be Part Of The Trust And Networks Region In Improvement Cymru At a Busy And Exciting Time, As We
- Work with NHS Wales to progress our programme of Safe Care Together.
- Work with National improvement and lean experts, Welsh Government and colleagues across NHS Wales to create the condition to embed a culture of continuous improvement.
- Work with our partners in the NHS Executive to maximise compliance with the Cancer National Optimal Pathways to reduce unwarranted variation across Wales.
You’ll be joining an ambitious team, comprising some of the most qualified and experienced Improvement professionals in NHS Wales. Together we lead, embed and champion Improvement across the service – national coordination of local support for safe, reliable and effective care. We offer the opportunity for you to develop your knowledge and skills in Improvement Science. You will be required to utilise this knowledge by coaching our NHS colleagues in the workplace to support their local improvement work.
Our strength comes from our teams having a powerful combination of backgrounds and experience. We want to recruit our new team members from diverse backgrounds with a mix of skills and experiences – we welcome applicants from all sectors, including the NHS.
Successful applicants will be allocated to a defined team, but with ongoing opportunities to matrix work with other Improvement Cymru teams and projects. All posts have national responsibilities and the ability to travel across Wales, including overnight stays, will be necessary for all postholders.
The NHS Executive works in partnership for and on behalf of Welsh Government, in and with the NHS in Wales and is hosted by Public Health Wales.
Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.
We do this by providing strong leadership and strategic direction – enabling, supporting, and directing NHS Wales to transform clinical services in line with national priorities and standards.
To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visit
https://phw.nhs.wales/careers/
For guidance on the application process, please visit
https://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance/
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alana Fowler-Browne Job title: Senior Improvement Manager Email address: Alana.fowlerbrowne@wales.nhs.uk
