Job summary
- Main area
- Quality
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-7982873-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mount McKinley
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata / per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Quality and Clinical Excellence Facilitator
NHS AfC: Band 6
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700. For a limited number of clinical posts (listed here), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.
Job overview
We have an exciting and rare opportunity for you to join our team as a Quality and Clinical Excellence Facilitator
This is a new post that will support the Quality and Clinical Excellence Team to drive and sustain improvements across the Trust.
You will work alongside our Clinical Leads for Quality to support a wide range of portfolios, including Deteriorating Patient, Nutrition & Hydration, Documentation, Falls, Deconditioning and Dementia.
We will provide training and education to fully equip you with all aspects of the job role.
Due to the nature of the role we are looking for a candidate with substantial NHS experience.
The role will require cross site working and so it is essential that you can travel across all Shropshire Community bases
Please do not hesitate to get in touch for more information.
Please note that this job does not meet the requirements for work visa sponsorship and as such we will be unable to progress your application if you do not have the right to work in the UK.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will play a key role as a member of the Quality and Clinical Excellence Team, working across all clinical areas to improve the quality of care in all key nursing and patient safety domains. The postholder will be pivotal in progressing work around CQUIN achievement and ensuring the quality of care is sustained and /or improved as a result.
The post holder must have proven experience in implementing quality improvement initiatives and of engaging with the multi-disciplinary team to develop and implement mutually driven schemes. This includes learning from patient experience, adverse incidents and complaints.
A key remit of the role is to help drive and sustain quality improvements. This post holder will facilitate and co-ordinate a portfolio of quality improvement work across the Trust supporting the Trust’s delivery improvements, this includes but is not limited to improvement initiatives linked to falls and deconditioning, deterioration, nutrition and hydration, medicines safety, risk assessments and documentation.
The post holder is also expected to contribute to the ward/clinical area accreditation programme and provide advice and support to teams about quality & safety.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant qualification to degree level or equivalent experience and demonstrable specialist knowledge and expertise (to post-graduate diploma level or equivalent) in: Project, Programme, Change Management Practitioner Qualification (Prince2 Project Management Practitioner, or Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner or Change Management Practitioner, or equivalent)
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive knowledge of CQUINs and health information systems
- Evidence of previous work in Quality Improvement in Healthcare environment
- Knowledge of performance and project management frameworks and assurance cycles.
- Experience of planning for, and evaluating change in a healthcare setting.
- Experience of project principles, techniques and tools.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of presenting complex information using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint, including the formation of SPC charts, tables and other visual representation of performance
- Experience of involvement/leading service improvement
- Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Highly developed negotiating and influencing skills, overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance, and reaching agreements
- Evidence of driving service improvement for healthcare services
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post (The postholder will be required to travel to any location as required by the organisation).
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Walsgrove
- Job title
- Head of Quality
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07974 491548
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