Dudley Improvement Practice - Divisional Practice Coach

We're doing some exciting work at Dudley with our continuous quality improvement system and are looking for someone who can drive forward our plans for developing a trust-wide culture of continuous improvement and support our people improve their work, services and experience for patients.

Do you love working with people and empowering them to make things better for patients and better for staff?

Can you coach people through the stages of their improvement journey?

Main duties of the job

As a Divisional Practice Coach for the Dudley Improvement Practice (DIP), you will be responsible for overseeing delivery of the Trust's Improvement Practice system based on Continuous Improvement principles.

You will support front line clinical & operational staff,senior managers and patients to implement improvements to patient services.

The Post holder will:

• develop improvement capability and capacity at DGFT using Dudley Improvement Practice system
• develop long-term plans for Value Stream work with at least one division
• undertake data collection to support Value Stream work
• deliver teaching and knowledge transfer to support improvement leadership development and the roll out of improvement initiatives
• coach others in improvement methods

About us

At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do to offer a high quality patient experience in a caring and supportive environment. This aligns with our vision of providing safe, caring and effective services because people matter.

This is an opportunity to join an NHS organisation that inspires its staff to innovate, with support and encouragement to continually develop. We expect all of our staff to demonstrate the Trust values of Care, Respect and Responsibility.

We believe healthcare is better when provided by supported and dedicated staff, so if you are innovative, forward thinking and dedicated to high quality patient care come and join our amazing team.

At the Dudley Group everyone is welcome, please ensure you have read our Recruitment Equality Statement included in the advert.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or evidence of equivalent
• Continuous Improvement / Lean qualification or evidence of training from an accredited provider

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of the purpose and approach of a coaching style of leadership

Experience

Essential

• Significant and proven leadership and management experience
• Significant experience of leading complex organisational and service level change across a range of functions

Employer details

Employer name

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Russells Hall Hospital

Pensnett Road

Dudley

DY1 2HQ

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