(**) Quality Improvement Facilitator | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Southend University Hospital NHS Trust
Salary:	£49,387 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Southend, SS0 0RY
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	28 Oct 2026
Closing date:	27 Nov 2026

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Summary

Are you passionate about improving patient care, empowering teams, and driving meaningful change? Join Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust as a Quality Improvement Facilitator (Band 7) — a role where you will inspire improvement, champion innovation, and help shape the future of healthcare for 1.2 million people across our Trust.

As one of the largest and most forward‑thinking Trusts in the country, we are committed to building a strong culture of improvement.

In this exciting position, you will work alongside clinical and operational teams to unlock potential, remove barriers, and support colleagues to deliver safer, more effective and compassionate care. This is a fantastic opportunity for a registered nurse, AHP or healthcare professional who thrives on collaboration, learning, and helping others succeed. You will be supported to grow your improvement expertise, coach teams across our hospital sites, and lead impactful initiatives aligned to our Trust Quality Strategy.

If you are enthusiastic, motivated, and ready to influence quality at scale, this role offers the perfect platform to develop your career while being part of a passionate, high-performing, and friendly Quality Improvement Team.

As a QI Facilitator you will:

• Lead and support quality improvement projects within assigned services, using recognised QI tools and methods.

• Coach, train and motivate staff to build improvement capability across the Trust.

• nalyse and interpret complex data to inform decision‑making and demonstrate progress

• Facilitate workshops, meetings and collaborative sessions with clinical and operational teams

• Engage patients, carers and staff to ensure improvement work reflects lived experience. Produce clear aims, action plans and reports that support sustainable change

• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to redesign processes and enhance patient safety, outcomes and experience.

• Promote a positive improvement culture aligned with Trust values and behaviours.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Are you looking for an exciting new role? Then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application. Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

This advert closes on Sunday 8 Nov 2026

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