# Quality Improvement Coach

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Colchester General Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Coach
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** 6 months (Fixed Term/ Secondment until 31 March 2027)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16T12:06:05.054Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Colchester/East_Suffolk_North_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Quality_Improvement/Quality_Improvement-v8373762
- **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and well motivated person to join our Quality Improvement Team at ESNEFT.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting and delivery of the Quality Improvement and Clinical Outcomes Strategy and actively engaging with the wider continous improvement agenda for the Trust.

Work effectively with individual across the Trust to meet patients' needs through effective audit and coaching staff to deliver quality improvement projects, using QI methodologies at service level.

Delivery of QI specialist training to all levels of staff groups and embedding quality improvement methodology across ESNEFT.

Proposed interview date : 26th October 2026

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### Main duties of the job

- Work with teams to identify potential resistance to change and develop strategies to overcome this resistance through the support of Quality Improvement approaches and methodologies
- Develop a consistent communications framework for sharing learning Trust-wide
- Responding professionally, positively and promptly to QI enquiries from a wide range of clinical and managerial staff, both internal and external to the organisation.
- Encourage a patient centred, learning and just culture across ESNEFT
- Maintain, sustain and develop effective communication channels and collaborative working relationships with staff at all levels within the organisation.
- Undertaking clinical audits where needed, using judgement to assess the information as required.
- Analyse the data collected from clinical audits and form recommendations and outcomes.
- Work collaboratively with Trust teams to deliver projects and identify opportunities for scale up and spread of improvement

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge and understanding of wider political and social drivers that influence service delivery within the NHS
- Knowledge and understanding of the quality Improvement agenda.
- Able to demonstrate understanding of current developments in the NHS and their implications for leadership and quality care for patients

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of successfully working in an environment in which the interests of a variety of stakeholders need to be considered and balanced.
- Previous experience of undertaking clinical audit and experience of data analysis

**Desirable**

- Post reg experience in a relevant clinical setting

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Recognised improvement qualification
- Continous professional development

**Desirable**

- Quality improvement trainong- Gold
- Clinical Audit

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 448.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10701726)
- [staff networks (pdf, 252.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2724)
- [dbs information (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1262)
- [apprenticeship handbook (pdf, 373.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2499)
- [esneft values and behaviours (pdf, 74.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2146)
- [value of joining nhs pension (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2404)

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