Associate Director of Improvement
Posted 4 days ago
Job Description
This vacancy is open exclusively to internal applicants currently employed by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
NHS Band 8D Salary: £94,356 - £108,814 per annum
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Location Base: Queen Alexandra Hospital, Southwick Hill Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3LY or St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG
The Associate Director of Improvement is a senior leadership role within the Group Corporate Services Division, supporting delivery of high‑quality, safe and sustainable care across Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
The post holder will work closely with the Director of Improvement to design, embed and sustain the Group’s quality management system, Delivering Excellence, ensuring improvement is how the Group operates every day. The role provides expert leadership, coaching and coordination to align strategy, delivery and improvement at executive, divisional, care group and frontline level.
Specific Core Functions
- Deployment and sustainability of Delivering Excellence
- Improvement leadership, coaching and facilitation
- Improvement capability and capacity building
- Coordination of Group improvement priorities
- Programme oversight, assurance and benefits realisation
For full job details, please refer to enclosed job description.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent experience.
- Formal training in improvement science.
- Evidence of continual professional development.
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification in leadership.
- Coaching qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Senior leadership experience in a complex healthcare or public sector environment.
- Leading large‑scale improvement programmes.
- Coaching senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams.
- Building organisational improvement capability.
Desirable
- Experience working across multiple organisations.
- System / ICS‑level improvement experience.
- Building organisational improvement capability.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Expert knowledge of improvement science and quality management systems.
- Understanding of NHS operational delivery and performance.
- Understanding of values‑led leadership and culture change.
Desirable
- Knowledge of NHS performance and governance frameworks.
Additional Information
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026
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Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is one of the largest acute hospital trusts in the country, treating over half a million patients each year. The Trust is the second largest employer in Portsmouth. We provide comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. We also offer some speciality services to a wider catchment of around two million people. Our population is characterised by its diversity – the rural and the urban, areas of wealth juxtaposed with real pockets of deprivation, and gaps in life expectancy. Most of our services are provided at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham, but we also offer a range of outpatient and diagnostic facilities closer to patients’ homes in community hospital sites and at local treatment centres throughout South East Hampshire, including St Mary's Treatment Centre, Gosport War Memorial Hospital and Petersfield Community Hospital. This LinkedIn page is kept up to date by the Communications Team who can be contacted at [email protected]. You can follow us on Twitter: @QAHospitalNews Do you have any compliments, comments or complaints? Please contact our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) on: 0800 917 6039 or email: [email protected].
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