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Senior Improvement Manager
NHS England
Home Office register entry: NHS England, Leeds
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Role description
Job summary
The National Patient Safety Team is searching for an exceptional individual who can demonstrate extensive experience in patient safety improvement and outcomes, ideally at regional and national level.
As a member of the team leading the development and implementation of the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF), you will work on the design, oversight and delivery of national programmes associated with this policy.
Main duties of the job
Based on a strong understanding of quality improvement science, patient safety in healthcare systems, and programme management expertise, the post holder will have a national role in quality and safety improvement associated with PSIRF and will be required to work with a broad range of stakeholders across the system to support appropriate and aligned improvement strategies.
Essential elements of this position include:
Support the planning and delivery of Safety Improvement Programmes, together with stakeholders.
Work jointly with our delivery partners the Health Innovation Network's, 15 regionally based Patient Safety Collaboratives, and ensure programme/project management are aligned with the programmes plans and provide coaching, advice and guidance on quality improvement methodologies and approaches, including measurement for improvement.
Work with Patient Safety Collaboratives to ensure that all reporting is accurate, appropriate and timely and demonstrate the impact and value of the programme, through the assurance process.
About us
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Details
Date posted
26 August 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£66,582 to £77,368 a year pro rata (excluding HCAS)
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
6 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
Reference number
990-MED-EC4526-E
Job locations
Any NHSE base
Nationally
SE1 8UG
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Some of the skills and experience we are looking for include:
- Experience of working in either a patient safety or quality improvement role
- Understanding of patient safety incident response framework and underpinning principle
- Experience of working to develop programme to support the national delivery of PSIRF
- Expertise in patient safety and Quality Improvement science.
- Excellent qualitative and quantitative analytical skills.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to provide complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to build and nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally, on a local, regional and national level.
For further information, please refer to the attached job description.
There will be occasional travel across England.
The role is initially available until March 2027 as a fixed term secondment with the potential for extension subject to renewal of funding.
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Last verified against our ingestion on 27 August 2026; sponsor register dataset 2026-08-25.