Innovation and Improvement Fellow
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Innovation and Improvement Fellow
This one-year Innovation and Improvement Fellow post offers a unique opportunity to work within the SUPPORT2 Improvement Collaborative being run by the Quality Improvement Department within the [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] Research and Quality Improvement Directorate. The successful candidate will work in partnership with the QI Programme Manager, Director of Research and Quality Improvement and other members of the SUPPORT improvement collaborative project team.
Job Summary
The SUPPORT2 Improvement Collaborative represents the next phase of our commitment to enhancing support systems for surgeons following adverse events. You will help the team to provide support to participant organisations across a 12 month period, with participants initially orientated to these approaches and then assisted to introduce them into their hospitals. The Improvement Collaborative will then support participants to maintain these approaches, sharing their experiences across the collaborative, and learning and collating data about this activity and its impact.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
- Supporting staff at the participant hospitals to engage in the Improvement Collaborative.
- Developing and delivering online and in person quality improvement activity.
- Facilitating peer learning sets and other wider QI learning activity.
- Evaluating and applying quality improvement methodologies that can be translated across the SUPPORT2 improvement collaborative and wider RCS England quality improvement work.
- Engaging with wider stakeholders, integrated care boards and local NHS trusts / Local Health Boards to support implementation of surgical wellbeing and other quality improvement activities and initiatives.
- Engaging with professional bodies and Royal Medical Colleges to support implementation of surgical and other medical/clinical wellbeing quality improvement activities and initiatives.
- Supporting the participant hospital teams with the development and implementation of their quality improvement plans.
- Analysing and evaluating wider determinants of surgical/medical wellbeing and considering how these can be best implemented with the SUPPORT2 Improvement Collaborative and wider RCS England quality improvement programmes.
- Evaluating the impact of the SUPPORT2 Improvement Collaborative.
- Developing and delivering plans for phase three of the SUPPORT Improvement Collaborative.
Person Specification
Qualifications: Membership / Fellowship of RCS England or another relevant Royal College. Experience and skills: Relevant clinical experience, familiarity with software for data management and statistical analysis, good numeracy, good understanding of health-related research and quality improvement methods, good understanding of basic statistical principles, evidence of NHS based quality improvement. Desirable: Experience in analysing clinical data, evidence of peer-reviewed publications, evidence of presenting research at professional conferences, understanding of epidemiological research, understanding of implementation research/quality improvement methods, good understanding of national clinical audit and quality improvement programmes.
We encourage trainees to reach out to Sheena MacSween, QI Programme Manager with any queries: [contact hidden]
The [Employer hidden] is an Equal Opportunities Employer.