Job summary
- Main area
- Frimley Excellence Improvement Team
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-SL0299
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Greenwood Offices, Heatherwood Hospital
- Town
- Ascot
- Salary
- £45,753 - £52,067 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/07/2024
Employer heading
Improvement Practitioner - Frimley Excellence
Band 7
Job overview
We are looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Improvement Practitioner who is passionate about leading and enabling others to make improvements that benefit our customers.
Main duties of the job
This will include championing our Get It Right First Time (GIRFT) priorities, coaching teams to make improvements using our bespoke Operational Improvement Management System, train staff in Lean methodology and create opportunities for improvers across the Trust to apply the tools and skills they have learnt.
We are a diverse team with members from both NHS and industry and would be keen to hear from candidates who can see how their previous experiences can support our continuous improvement journey.
Please read our 'week in the life of an Improvement Practitioner' for a clearer idea of this role.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A full job description and personal specification is attached. Please contact us to discuss whether this role would be the right fit for you.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Experience in working and coordinating Operational Excellence Programmes
- Yellow Belt (Lean/Six Sigma)
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Green Belt (Lean/Six Sigma)
- Post graduate Masters
- Prince 2 Project Management Qualification
- Leadership Qualification
- Coaching Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Exp of developing and coordinating training in Op ex/Lean
- Exp of leading projects or change management
- Exp of coaching for improvement
- Exp of at least one Lean based methodology
Desirable criteria
- Exp of applying CI in Healthcare
- Exp of coaching or mentoring healthcare professionals
- Track record of delivering training programmes
- Track record of delivering projects on budget
Skills
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of 5S, RIE, Value Stream Mapping, RCA etc
- Ability to engage stakeholders
- Advanced interpersonal skills
- Strong facilitation skills
- Highly organised, can run large scale complex projects and timetables
- Ability to motivate others
Desirable criteria
- Proven ability to develop strategy
- Translates strategy into actions
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vicky Murray
- Job title
- Senior Improvement Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07879 801 230
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