Quality Improvement Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 15
- Posted
- 26/08/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role supports the promotion of a Quality Improvement (QI) culture across the Trust by delivering training and providing advice for QI projects. The post holder will design and deliver QI training programmes to upskill staff and embed a culture of continuous improvement. They will advocate for QI initiatives, tools, and methodologies, ensuring engagement from all stakeholders including service users, patients, carers, and staff. The role involves working collaboratively with the QI Hub team to identify training needs and support the planning, delivery, and evaluation of training programmes.
Essential criteria
- Awareness of quality improvement and/or service improvement from a QSIR, Flow Coaching or similar service improvement methodology perspective or willing to work towards post graduate education in QI
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working in a health and care setting
- Experience of delivering training
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supporting teams/groups through change
- Experience of supporting change initiatives
- Experience of Quality Improvement and Service Redesign Methodologies delivered/ applied in a healthcare setting
- Professional/Managerial Knowledge
- Demonstrable leadership skills
- Personal attributes
- Ability to independently and creatively problem solve
- Ability to develop and deliver training sessions to a range of stakeholders
- Embraces change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop
- Self-motivated with the ability to work without supervision, as well as work to tight and often changing timescales.
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders, some at senior level.
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions to resolve problems in relation to service delivery.
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others and negotiate with stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues
- Ability to understand a broad range of information quickly and suggest options when an opinion differ/there is no obvious solution.
- Awareness of quality improvement and/or service improvement from a QSIR, Flow Coaching or similar service improvement methodology perspective or willing to work towards post graduate education in QI
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working in a health and care setting
- Experience of delivering training
- Experience of supporting teams/groups through change
- Experience of supporting change initiatives
- Experience of Quality Improvement and Service Redesign Methodologies delivered/ applied in a healthcare setting
- Professional/Managerial Knowledge
- Demonstrable leadership skills
- Personal attributes
- Ability to independently and creatively problem solve
- Ability to develop and deliver training sessions to a range of stakeholders
- Embraces change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop
- Self-motivated with the ability to work without supervision, as well as work to tight and often changing timescales.
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders, some at senior level.
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions to resolve problems in relation to service delivery.
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others and negotiate with stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues
- Ability to understand a broad range of information quickly and suggest options when an opinion differ/there is no obvious solution.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Quality Improvement Practitioner
The closing date is 13 September 2026
Job summary
This is a fixed term contract until March 2028. The hours of work are 15 per week.
The QI Hub provides the strategic direction and facilitation for cultural change in embedding QI, maximising the effectiveness of leaders, managers and supervisors across the Trust, and ensuring the delivery of a fair and inclusive culture, which supports staff health and wellbeing and in which staff feel valued and motivated. It encourages an environmentwhere people can learn.
This role supports the promotion of a QI culture across the whole Trust through training and the provision of advice and support for QI pieces of work. They will advocate for QI initiatives, tools and methodologies and ensure all stakeholders are engaged, including service users, patients and carers and staff.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
o Work with the Director and Deputy Director of Improvement and Partnerships, the Head of Improvement and colleagues in the QI Hub, and Experts by Experience to design, develop and deliver QI training programmes. These programmes will support the development of the improvement capacity and capability required to embed and support a Trust-wide culture of continuous improvement. This training will bedeveloped using all
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