Will Diaz
Will Diaz is an Improvement Advisor in the Quality Improvement department, supporting our Forensics & Community Health Services – Bedfordshire directorate.
He is passionate about testing and implementing change that brings about valuable outputs for individuals, teams, patients and the whole organisation.
He has been a nurse for more than 10 years having worked in various areas – learning disabilities, adult nursing, and management in both the public and private sectors. He has recently finished his Master of Business Administration with a keen interest on project and change management. As part of his management research, Will has completed a qualitative study on the experiences of internationally educated nurses – exploring these towards their retention and improvement of the IEN program. Will has also supported and led various change and transformation projects throughout his career and is looking forward to bringing this experience to the role.
His other interests include yoga, running, swimming, cycling, skiing, karaoke, travel and cooking.
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
