Improvement & Development Manager

If you enjoy working with people, collaborating with teams, an expert in the use of data and helping to make care fairer and better for patients, we'd love to hear from you. This is a great opportunity to help and support the continuing work of the Community Dental Services which are delivered across West Yorkshire.

As our Improvement & Development Manager, you'll work alongside senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams, turning insight into action and supporting programmes that deliver meaningful, lasting improvements in quality, equity and value., Lead and sustain improvement programmes across short, medium and long timescales, so priorities translate into real-world change.Develop the Collaborative's business intelligence and insight, ensuring high-quality data informs planning, performance oversight and shared decision-making.Embed improvement methodology and strong governance, championing benefits realisation and evidence of impact over time.Work with partners and the Lead Provider (Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust) to strengthen service resilience, productivity and patient experience.Communicate complex and sensitive information with clarity, empathy and influence, building alignment across multiple organisations.

Why join us?

You'll be joining an established, welcoming, system-wide team committed to high-quality, equitable care--and a Trust whose values are We Care, We Listen and We Deliver. You'll have a real opportunity to influence how services work across West Yorkshire and support to grow your improvement and leadership practice. This is a varied role, working across partners and services, with the chance to connect with clinicians, operational teams and senior leaders. Your work will help shape priorities, strengthen governance, and make sure we can clearly show the difference we're making for patients and communities.

Educated to degree level (or equivalent professional qualification) with a clear commitment to continuing professional development.Strong programme/project and change management experience, ideally within complex health or public sector environments.Confidence working with data: analysis, interpretation and presenting insight for different audiences.Excellent stakeholder management--able to negotiate, influence and build effective partnerships across organisational boundaries.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value differenceWe Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needsWe Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partnersWe will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :Increase mileage rates for > 4500A wide range of health and wellbeing support packagesA range of internal and external development and learning opportunitiesPlus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate's best interest to apply as soon as possible.