Job summary
- Main area
- Improvement
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a/8b
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term, 12 month Secondment Cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-SS0654-A
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Farm Villa
- Town
- Barming
- Salary
- £53,755 - £72,293 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Improvement Manager - Strategy Deployment
NHS AfC: Band 8a/8b
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Senior Improvement Manager - Shaping the Future of Mental Health Care in Kent
Join KMPT on a transformative journey and make a real difference!
KMPT is embarking on its biggest improvement journey and working alongside our system colleagues we are shaping the agenda of care for Mental Health, learning disability, and autism across the county.
This Senior Improvement Manager role is an exciting opportunity to work with an amazing team to design and deliver that agenda and really make a difference to our patients, services users, carers and our people.
Main duties of the job
This role will lead the delivery of the training programmes; content and curriculum.
Training:
- Support the delivery of Yellow belt training as required to meet specific departmental KPI’s
- Support the delivery of Green belt training as required to meet specific departmental KPI’s
- Delivery of IMS roadmap
- Lead on the content creation and delivery of the Improvement Management System (IMS) training to Trust
- Identify opportunities for sharing innovation across divisions and specialties as they are trained
- Delivering a roadmap to ensure trust-wide capability building as well as on-going coaching for staff.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Capability Building -Coaching:
- Ongoing coaching support to front line teams / Care groups once trained in IMS
- Train and provide ongoing support to staff in trust improvement methodologies, including lean and systems thinking tools and techniques
- Gemba to front line wards to assist with maturity of IMS and support maturity assessment
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree
- Greenbelt
Desirable criteria
- Coaching
Experience
Essential criteria
- Operational Excellence / Improvement Management System
- Establishing Credability
Skills
Essential criteria
- Training
- Coaching
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the landscape
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
- Ilias Rentoulis
- Job title
- Head of Improvement – Strategy Deployment
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07593 356244
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