Responsibilities Member engagement Draw on acute member priorities, expertise, and knowledge to develop and shape quality improve.....
Responsibilities Member engagement Draw on acute member priorities, expertise, and knowledge to develop and shape quality improvement opportunities Develop insightful, evidence-based, member-informed improvement priorities, advice, recommendations and thought leadership to drive a range of influencing activities and improvement Providing services to members through improvement analysis, best practice, case studies, research projects to help connect members with the latest improvement thinking Support the central commercial team in identifying members that need re-engaging and identifying potential new members to help achieve the networks income growth objectiveImprovement collaboratives/communities Codesigning (with members input) events programme, including meetings with senior leaders, and high-profile communities/collaboratives and conferences. Designing, facilitating, and lead on improvement communities/collaboratives for members, including roundtables, webinars and peer learning sets that help our members learn, improve and influence together. Using improvement methodology and tools to support improvement projects at a national level Providing support and guidance to members on improvement approaches/systems thinking Connecting with wider improvement organisations/leaders to build a strong foundation of improvement within the organisation Use project management skills to keep improvement work on track and build momentum Lead on acute/hospital level data analysis to help drive data led improvement and ensure measurement for improvement is in place, this includes evaluation methods and recommendations based on both qualitative and quantitative findings Co-designing overall improvement strategy and income generation funding model within the network this includes researching options, engaging with stakeholders, understanding market/appetite/USP to attract improvement workCommunications Working closely with the press and media, and the NHS Confederations communications and public affairs teams, providing comment and background briefing on acute healthcare improvement Making a strong case for change and writing/speaking persuasively with a range of external audiences. Working with the communications lead to manage and provide content for our members - ensuring members receive relevant and timely updates from the NHS Confederation about its work and national developments of interest to members through blogs and member updates. Speaking at external meetings and events as necessary to support our improvement agenda Using content knowledge and engaging in social media to raise the profile of the improvement portfolio to wider members, parliamentarians, researchers and key decision makers in collaboration with the wider Confederations communications and public affairs teams Project managing and creating high-quality and insightful products (including publications, rapid briefings, summary guides and thought leadership pieces) to spread the learning, improvement practice and lessons to membersKey relationships Develop, manage and maintain strong stakeholder relationships with external organisations Using improvement coaching skills and influencing key stakeholders Lead on building strong relationships with acute members senior leaders, clinical leaders and system leaders Co-lead with other networks within NHS Confederation on collaboration and joint improvement work as well as wider staff groups such as communications, events team and central policy team. Building effective working relationships with colleagues, contributing to effective team dynamics, and deputising for the Assistant Director Ensure connectivity and input into the NHS Confederations wider organisational priorities, in particular our Strategic Impact Goals and work towards improvement in what our members and systems deliverLeadership Working flexibly and responsively to needs of the network ensuring effective prioritisation and meeting short notice deadlines as required Optimising and supporting the allocation of time and resources to improvement projects/collaboratives to make the best use of capacity and skills across the team Supporting the development of an annual business and work plan and tracking project risks and performance Demonstrating initiative and a proactive approach to the delivery of improvement work that adds value, anticipates needs and leads to positive outcomes Investing in own personal development through feedback and continuous learning Setting clear objectives for direct reports, providing ongoing support and investing their development. Part of the senior leadership team in the network and role modelling/supporting colleagues to achieve the networks priority goals and contributing to the development of an effective and cohesive team with commitment to the delivery of shared goals Providing improvement coaching, influencing and negotiating with senior leaders/members involved in improvement collaboratives
