Role: Improvement and Transformation Lead
Location: Bedford/Cambridgeshire - hybrid
Rate: £204.14 per day - Inside IR35
Duration: 6 months with high possibilities for extension
Start Date: As soon as possible
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week

The Improvement and Transformation Lead will provide senior leadership and expertise in identifying and implementing improvement and transformation opportunities across clinical and non-clinical functions. This role supports senior leaders in developing ambitious transformation plans that drive innovation, optimize digital technologies, and align with local system priorities and national directives. The Improvement and Transformation Lead will also participate in system transformation forums and projects, fostering collaborative improvement opportunities and ensuring the consistent use of the Trust’s continuous improvement methodologies.

Key Responsibilities for the Improvement and Transformation Lead:
* Lead the identification, assignment, and effective delivery of improvement support, including complex problem-solving, facilitating workshops, coaching in continuous improvement, and providing intensive support.
* Ensure consistent use of improvement tools and methodologies such as lean, six sigma, and theory of constraints, alongside various delivery methodologies like agile and waterfall.
* Develop long-term strategic plans to build the Trust’s capability for continuous improvement, including consultancy, training, and coaching.
* Lead transformation programs across specified services/areas to achieve improvements in patient care, outcomes, efficiency, and performance, and respond to strategic care pathway developments and commissioning requirements.
* Create improvement/transformation blueprints, conduct gap analyses, plan change programs, and allocate resources across projects.
* Establish robust governance arrangements to track benefits, progress, risks, issues, and interdependencies.
* Develop stakeholder engagement plans to ensure co-production partnership working in improvement initiatives.
* Deliver effective reporting mechanisms, providing updates to senior forums and boards as required.
* Provide senior leadership in the Improvement and Transformation team, including direction, supervision, and coaching for colleagues.
If you are interested in the Improvement and Transformation Lead contract and feel as if your experience matches up well, then please apply with your most up to date CV.