Care Improvement Programme Lead

Salary: c.£45,000 plus company benefits

Location: Hybrid working / Home-based

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association has an exciting opportunity for a Care Improvement Programme Lead to join our Care Improvement Team.

This vacancy has the option to be a full-time, home-based role or hybrid working between home and our National Office in Northampton.

About the role

This vital role will be responsible for the co-design, development, and effective delivery of our portfolio of care improvement work aligned to the Association's strategy to improve outcomes and experience for people with MND.

You will be supporting National and Regional Care teams to deliver agreed change and improvement initiatives, including with health and care partners in third and statutory sectors, specifically improving access to multidisciplinary care, including design and delivery of our Care Centre and Network Programme and integrated care pathways with community specialist services for people with MND.

What are we looking for?

It is pivotal that the successful candidate has an excellent understanding of UK Health and Social Care systems, including general level of education at degree or the equivalent level of attainment gained through professional experience. You will possess strong Leadership and management experience of delivering improvement, ideally within the third sector and / or Health and Social Care systems.

Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with the ability to persuade, is essential to influence and where appropriate challenge with tact and diplomacy.

Our ideal candidate will have experience of successful implementation of sustained change using change methodologies, with deep expertise in Quality Improvement (QI) frameworks/approaches.

Please view the attached job description for the full requirements of the role.

How to apply?

We would love to hear from you and encourage early applications.

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, apply online now and submit a supporting statement and CV.

About Us

The MND Association was founded in 1979. Our mission is to improve care and support for people with MND, their families and carers. We also fund and promote research that leads to new understanding and treatments and brings us closer to a cure for MND. The Association also campaigns and raises awareness so the needs of people with MND, and everyone who cares for them, are recognised and addressed by wider society.

We operate an agile working environment within a flexible office space using the latest technology and digital infrastructure. This, together with a high level of trust and performance driven culture, gives staff the freedom and flexibility to work in the best way for them, the Association and, most importantly, people with MND.

We are committed to equality and value diversity. We are working hard to remove perceived and actual barriers to participation for people with and affected by MND, current and future staff, volunteers and stakeholders.

Important Notices

The MND Association operates an Agile working culture and therefore we are open to discussing the possibility of variable hours, remote or home working, flexible start and finish times etc.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

Our selection process will be multi-stage; this may include video call screening, psychometric assessments, and competency-based interview/s.

We request that recruitment agencies do not contact us in relation to this role. We work hard to fill our roles directly and if assistance is required, we operate a PSL, which currently closed for review. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies/ headhunters.