Job Description:

Job information Head of Improvement from the Company Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, this latest Head of Improvement job vacancy is located in the city Bodmin located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate Master Degree . Job Vacancies in this Administration field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

Head of Improvement

Band 8b

Main area Head of Improvement Grade Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Some degree of flexible or home/remote working may be possible, subject to negotiation.) Job ref 201-25-274-A Site Carew House Town Bodmin Salary£62,215 - £72,293 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/04/2025 23:59 Interview date 08/05/2025

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

Great Care

• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Organisation

• Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
• Technology enabled care.
• Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
• Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People

• A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

• Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Joined-up community services.
• Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Reduce our impact on the environment.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home' office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

Job overview

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a proactive and experienced Head of Improvement, who has significant experience of leading improvement across a large and complex organisation, and who has a passion for improving the quality and safety of patient care and transforming services. This role is critical is supporting the response to operational and financial pressures.

You will be responsible for shaping and delivering our quality improvement strategy across the Trust and will lead on the advancement and growth of improvement activity. You will be responsible for finding and contributing to new ways of working to deliver cost and quality improvement, be used to working in a complex system, managing sensitive issues, and competing priorities.

If you have a track record in delivering service innovation/transformation and working at scale to deliver high quality programmes, we would be interested to hear from you.

Proposed interview date: 8th May 2025

Main duties of the job

The Head of Improvement will be charged with translating the Chief Governance & Improvement Officer's vision for transformation and improvement within CFT into reality. They will be accountable for directing a portfolio of change and improvement projects across the entire Trust, in order to deliver sustainable change, quality, and safety improvement programmes. The post holder will directly manage the Trust Quality Improvement Lead, and in conjunction with the Quality Leads within the Care Directorates and the Trust's Senior Leadership Team, will ensure all quality improvements, safety programmes and clinical effectiveness systems are embedded and sustainable (this will include audit and evidence-based care). The post holder will exercise strong and dynamic leadership and bring coordination and focus to promote a high-performance culture, strengthened governance, an improved service user experience and to challenge traditional practice and orthodoxy through evidence-based practice, new insights and perspectives, and a positive expectation to succeed. The post holder may additionally be called upon to support the CGIO and Deputy Director with a variety of projects, reports and studies related to delivering improved governance within the Trust. The post holder will need to ensure the maintenance of excellent communication with the wider Quality Improvement community both within and external to the Trust to ensure that improvement ideas are shared across all services.

Working for our organisation

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents'.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience

Essential criteria

• Model for Improvement, Lean, QSIR, Six Sigma or other continuous / quality improvement qualification or significant experience in applying relevant methodologies.
• Experience of participating in audits and research
• Project management training and experience
• Educated to degree level with evidence of post graduate study at Masters level or equivalent experience
• Experience of dealing with complex facts or situations, requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options
• Training in data analysis

Desirable criteria

• Current professional registration - NMC, HCPC or other

Knowledge and abilities

Essential criteria

• Principles of quality improvement and continuous improvement
• Management of change

Skills and aptitude

Essential criteria

• Experience of managing and supervising others
• Present complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups
• Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information; agreement or co-operation required
• Experience of working with senior management teams
• High level and professional verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to effectively manage difficult and challenging relationships, utilising a range of influencing, negotiating, facilitating and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to devise training, provide teaching and develop programmes for department
• Ability to work comfortably both autonomously and collaboratively with others

At Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust we are proud to prioritise the development of our people. To support this, the following opportunities are available:

• Career conversations and individual development plans for succession planning and talent management
• Protected CPD time for registered staff
• Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
• Leadership and Management development programmes
• Coaching and mentoring opportunities
• A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
• Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
• A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
• Individual professional development programmes

Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:

• Suite of health and wellbeing initiatives to support our colleagues physical and mental health
• Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
• Free DBS checks where required
• Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• The Trust reimburses all application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status.

The Trust reserves the right to close this advert once a sufficient number of applications have been submitted. It is encouraged that you complete the application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process you will be contacted via TRAC.jobs email regarding interview details.

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust welcomes and values individuals with lived experience of mental or physical ill health joining our workforce. We aspire to have a culture that develops, promotes and supports lived experience roles - throughout the organisation.

If you are successful, you agree to Occupational Health accessing your health records from your current or previous employer to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. Appointments are subject to full three year satisfactory references therefore please ensure you include correct contact details for your nominated referees including email addresses.

Any general recruitment queries, please contact our recruitment team on 01208 834644

Keywords : Bodmin jobs
Closed Date : 2025-08-28