Marco Aurelio
Marco is an Improvement Advisor in the Quality Improvement department supporting our Newham Mental Health Directorate.
With a professional background in informatics and performance management, Marco has a range of experience supporting improvements across different NHS provider organisations. Before joining ELFT Marco worked as a QI Lead at Homerton University Hospital where he supported the development of the trust’s QI programme and supported QI Projects. Before this he spent time at the Royal Free NHS FT and Hackney Council’s Public Health Team, focusing on delivering large scale intelligence projects. Prior to joining the NHS Marco worked in research and knowledge management in higher education and the third sector . Marco is currently working towards his Masters in Public Health.
An Improvement Advisor role involves:
- Extra support for those projects working
on one of the Trust priority workstreams - Expertise in improvement methods and tools
Their responsibilities are:
- Attending and help coordinate the monthly directorate QI forums
- Teaching staff and service users & carers in improvement methods and tools
- Strategic support for directorate in defining improvement priorities, aligning QI work, building capability
- Regular supervision sessions in each directorate with QI coaches
- Alert clinical/service director and sponsors of projects that are not progressing or where support structure is weak
