About this role
Job summary As an Improvement Manager, you will design and deliver practical support that helps members build capability, tackle complex challenges and make improvement happen at scale. Working with partners across the NHS and beyond, you will turn insight into high-quality programmes, consultancy and learning offers that make a real difference.
Main duties of the job
As an improvement manager you will be:
Designing and delivering improvement and leadership programmes that help members strengthen capability and tackle inequalities.Building strong partnerships with external organisations, in-house teams and associates to create high-impact offers.Spotting funding and commercial opportunities, contributing to securing new work and managing delivery from bid to evaluation.Staying close to the issues facing members, developing useful insights and influencing the conditions for successful improvement.
About us
The NHS Alliance is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive environment for our staff. A place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of inclusive employment policies including family friendly policies and flexible working and we have range of channels to support staff from different backgrounds including our staff networks and a staff forum.
The NHS Alliance is committed to being a flexible employer. We understand the value and benefit to our employees being able to work flexibly and our agile working principles are designed to empower our people to work with optimal flexibility and minimal constraints to support a work life balance and take care of employee health and wellbeing.
Job description Job responsibilities
Design and deliver improvement and leadership programmes for members, including those that support members to tackle inequalities, working with both in house teams and external associates.Create and develop new partnerships with external organisations and maintain excellent working relationships with partners through delivery.Identify funding and commercial opportunities, bidding for and securing new contracts, and project managing, reporting and evaluating these.Monitoring and maintaining an understanding of the issues relevant to our members, developing insights into how they might tackle key challenges and influencing to create the conditions in which improvement efforts are more likely to succeed.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Experience in service design and delivery of improvement and / or leadership development programmes
Excellent project management skills and an ability to manage multiple workstreams, priorities and conflicting demands, with strong attention to detail
Experience liaising with senior stakeholders on a range of issues and leading the effective delivery of engagement activities and resulting outputs
Knowledge and understanding of the health sector and key developments
Knowledge of improvement tools and methodologies and experience supporting stakeholders to achieve change
Knowledge and experience in event design and delivery
Desirable
Experience of working in a matrix-style organisation and collaborating across a range of teams
Experience of developing proposals and generating income
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.
Employer details Employer name The NHS Alliance
Address 2nd Floor, 18 Smith Square
Westminister
London
SW1P 3HZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://thenhsalliance.org/ (Opens in a new tab)