Job summary
Health Innovation Wessex (HIW) is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for a detailed job description of the role
Main duties of the job
Are you fascinated by change and innovation? Can you help the NHS adopt innovation faster to help deliver better care to patients?
At Health Innovation Wessex we improve people's health, achieve excellence in healthcare and boost innovation and growth in our region's life sciences and healthcare sector. As one of 15 health Innovation Networks across England, we connect and support academics, NHS, industry and others to bring fresh energy to old problems, inspired thinking to new ones and to adopt innovative practice at scale.
Join our Team where you will be responsible for an evolving portfolio of programmes which support patient safety and innovation adoption across Wessex. With a clinical background, and programme & project management experience in a relevant setting, we welcome applicants with an interest in safety culture, health inequalities, workforce, patient and public involvement and engagement and environmental sustainability.
About us
Health Innovation Wessex trading under the name Wessex Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) is a company limited by guarantee, owned by the NHS and University Members, hosted by University Hospital Southampton.
Based at Southampton Science Park in Chilworth in a bright modern office easily accessible from the M3, M27 and Southampton Parkway train station, the location offers free parking with a caf area and networking spaces on site. 27 acres of the Science Park site are designated a protected Conservation Area and open to staff.
We are keen to ensure that staff enjoy a successful work/life balance and offer flexible working dependent on the requirements of the role. Health Innovation Wessex endorses personal development and provides training allowances to help you deliver in the role and meet your career goals.We also have a proactive approach to wellbeing in line with our core values of being Innovative, Inclusive and Collaborative, with staff engagement groups shaping the organisation's culture and driving initiatives to allow our people to flourish despite times of challenge, change and high demand.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The essential elements for this role are quality improvement and project management experience. You will have experience of delivering QI, perhaps looking to expand your experience to working across a region.
You will be responsible for leading the delivery of a national programme across Wessex working with local, regional, and national partners; planning and delivering specific QI and spread projects. Must be comfortable in developing others in using a range of improvement, scale up and project management techniques to deliver and monitor milestones and outcomes of work. This includes undertaking diagnostics, supporting small tests of change (for example with PDSA cycles) and supporting teams to use measurement for improvement.
We are an ambitious organisation, looking for passionate and motivated people to join us with a proven track record of delivery. You will need a tenacity to succeed, great communication and project management skills, an ability to build new relationships quickly and the capability to manage and report data, and organise events. A clinical background is required with patient safety / quality improvement experience. We welcome applications from people with a wide range of additional past experiences, whether that be clinical, NHS management or from industry. Experience in programme management is also advantageous. An appreciation of the challenges involved with innovation deployment and transformation in the NHS is an advantage to succeed in this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / training required
Essential
- Degree-level qualification in nursing or midwifery, allied health / public health / social care, including professional registration e.g. NMC or HCPC registration where appropriate
- A Master's degree level or equivalent postgraduate qualification in relevant discipline
- Knowledge of the specialist work practices and/ or professional guidelines relevant to patient safety
- Knowledge and experience of the NHS and local health and social service functions
Desirable
- Project Management training (e.g. PRINCE II)
- Institute of Health Care Breakthrough Series Training (or equivalent)
- Institute of Health Care Patient Safety Executive Course (or equivalent)
- Coaching / mentoring training
Previous or relevant experience necessary
Essential
- Relevant Clinical experience
- Clinical Management experience
- Knowledge of the maternity transformation programme
- Patient Safety experience in an NHS or care setting
- Quality Improvement experience (using QI tools and techniques such as process mapping, PDSA cycles, run charts or equivalent)
- Project management experience in an NHS or care service setting
- Experience of integrated working across professional boundaries and involving several organisations
Desirable
- Knowledge / experience of the Maternity and Neonatal (MatNeo) Safety Improvement Programme
- Ability to teach/facilitate the use of QI methodology
- Experience in evaluating projects
- Experience of organising/ managing events
- Coaching / mentoring experience
Values and behaviours
Essential
- Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet the Health Innovation Wessex values and behaviours policy and UHS Trust Values;
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
Address
Health Innovation Wessex
Innovation Centre, Southampton Science Park, 2 Venture Road
Chilworth
SO16 7NP